Author: BooMan

I Try Not to Be a Snob

I want to agree with Mark Steyn about hip-hop, and I almost kind of could convince myself to be snobbish enough to agree with him if I didn’t know it would just be me succumbing to my worst personality traits. Yeah, for my...

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I Don’t Care About Chuck Hagel

I’m sitting out the fight over Chuck Hagel’s nomination. His chief opponents are despicable, but I have never thought very highly of Hagel, either. He didn’t impress me at all in today’s hearing. I...

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Weird Immigration Reform Opposition

Rich ‘Starburst’ Lowry, writing in Politico, continues the emerging convention of referring to the Gang of Eight’s immigration outline as “Rubio’s Plan.” And he doesn’t like it....

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Hagel Confirmation Hearing

I am still totally unenthusiastic about Chuck Hagel’s nomination to be Secretary of Defense. But, I am also a committed opponent of Stupid. Therefore, with the exception of the bashing he takes for being a former...

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What’s Your Political History?

I think you can learn a lot about a person by knowing who they supported politically throughout their life. Not everyone is willing to share that kind of information, of course, and some people aren’t honest about it, but...

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