Author: BooMan

Since the Paycheck Fairness Act of 2012 is getting a cloture vote in the Senate today, I thought I’d start a conversation about worker compensation. It used to be understood that most households could get by on one...

After the deluge of money spent in Wisconsin, there are basically no undecided voters left. The reputable polls are all close and within the margin of error. What we’re going to see today is two gigantic pairings of...

Did you ever see the movie Fast Times at Ridgemont High? Do you remember the scene where Jeff Spicoli (Sean Penn) crashes his friend’s older brother’s car into a pallet of cinder blocks? After they both survey the...

How rich people think: American International Group Inc. (AIG) Chief Executive Officer Robert Benmosche said Europe’s debt crisis shows governments worldwide must accept that people will have to work more years as life...

Has anyone noticed that the right-wing blogosphere seems to have gotten a little weird lately? I mean, they’ve always been an atrocious lot of paranoids and bigots, but lately they’ve been going off on tangents that...