Author: BooMan

How Badly Wounded is Bachmann?

Michele Bachmann’s 6th Congressional District in Minnesota is very red, and redistricting made it slightly redder. On the other hand, she no longer lives in the district, which might present a slight problem for her. Jim...

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Rough Details of Penn State Sanctions

The NCAA is going to announce Penn State’s punishment in a press conference in the morning. Details have been leaking out all day. If what I’m hearing is correct, I think I am going to approve of their solution. My...

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We Don’t Even Know Their Names

I was thinking about The Field Negro’s lament that we never get to hear about the personal stories or suffering relatives of the thousands of black people who die from gunshots each year in our cities, and I decided to try...

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The Big Picture

The guns that lunatic used in the Aurora Massacre are not at all uncommon and can be purchased almost anywhere. The only weapon that’s somewhat controversial is the AR-15, and that’s because it was classified as an...

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You’re Not Clint Eastwood

Meteor Blades tries to reason with gun nuts. I don’t think it is possible to reason with gun nuts. Instead of trying to use language and logic, I submit the following National Geographic program on the 1997 shootout in...

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