Author: BooMan

I hope you’ve had a chance to see Bruce Springsteen’s newest single. Here’s the video: Springsteen, it seems to me, is Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, and Johnny Cash all wrapped up into one. But he really...

I want to remember her young, smiling, happy, and optimistic. I’ll try to remember her like that. Goodbye, Whitney.

I spent today attending the Pennsylvania Progressive Summit 2012 at the Philadelphia Convention Center. It was an opportunity for me to meet the head of Democracy for America, Jim Dean. We had lunch together at the Reading...

This is what happens when your only exposure to black people is Yo MTV Raps. I could blame lousy black rappers for leaving a distorted picture of black culture. But lack of talent is only a small part of the problem here. Update...

I share Nate Silver’s inability to use the past as a guide to the future when trying to figure out what will happen in the Republican nominating contest. I have been of two minds over the last year. Most of the time, I...