Author: BooMan

Civility Now!

This explains a lot about Kathleen Parker: During my own childhood, even private cursing was rare, and the third finger was something only the crudest people used to express themselves. No one I knew ever dropped the F-bomb. The...

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Thomas Jefferson v. Rick Santorum

In America, what you really want is a president whose agenda is based on Christian theology. A devout Roman Catholic who has risen to the top of Republican polls in recent days, Santorum said the Obama administration had failed...

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Poulos is Back With Hurt Feelings

I guess we hurt poor Mr. James Poulos’s feelings with all our mockery. At this point he’s been reduced to regurgitating nonsense he didn’t fully understand when he took PHIL101: Introduction to Philosophy...

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Views of The Boss

I gotta go get The Boss’s new album. It sounds fantastic. Indeed, it is as angry a cry from the belly of a wounded America as has been heard since the dustbowl and Woody Guthrie, a thundering blow of New Jersey pig iron...

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Casual Observation

The conservative members of the Supreme Court should be forced to sit in a dark room and watch the entire Deadwood series until they internalize the meaning of especially vulnerable to “continued efforts of corporate control to...

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