Author: BooMan

A zombie lie is a false statement that keeps getting repeated no matter how often it has been refuted. Zombies are difficult to kill and they keep coming back. We need a term for a true statement that isn’t believed no...

Some people interpreted my piece on Obama’s supposed naïvety in a way I didn’t intend them to. I also feel like I was a bit unfair to Ed Kilgore. I didn’t mean to single him out or suggest that he’s...

A new scientific study has discovered that men who have “traditional” marriages (i.e., their wife does not work) have negative attitudes about women in the workplace, don’t like organizations with female...

Any administration wants to leave certain distinct impressions with different audiences. They will all want to make their own core constituencies happy, while convincing the media and the broad middle of the electorate that they...

Republican legislators are scared enough of their crazy base that they are unwilling to refer to any rise in the sea level even in studies on how to prepare for a rising sea level. But, so far at least, the legislators...