Author: BooMan

Growing up in bucolic Central New Jersey, I never experienced a hurricane or a tornado or a forest fire or an earthquake. We had some occasional flooding, but nothing like we began to see in the late 1990’s. I once woke up...

This time of year, with the short days, can be kind of depressing regardless of what is going on in the world, but I’m finding it hard to take the combination of evil stupidity we’re being subjected to. When the...

It’s interesting to see which Republican senators voted for disaster relief for the victims of Sandy. It’s not hard to understand why David Vitter of Louisiana, Thad Cochran and Roger Wicker of Mississippi, and...

While I am confident that none of this would be any better if John McCain or Mitt Romney had been elected president, I can’t dispute anything that Glenn Greenwald said about the FISA reauthorization. He’s...

Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico says that he has whipped up 51 votes to change the filibuster rules at the beginning of the next Congress. That’s interesting because the numbers must be pretty tight. Democratic Sens. Chuck...