Author: BooMan

I haven’t read everything that Ezra Klein has ever written but I still feel comfortable saying that this is the best thing he has ever written. It’s long. It’s really, really long. But it’s long because...

Somewhat amazingly, Liz Flock has responded to my heads-up that she’d been suckered into reporting that two comedians are also bankers by telling me she was obligated to report the story that way and that that is just how...

I might be more convinced by the argument that Central Park carriage horses are treated inhumanely if you weren’t trying to benefit financially by winning the argument. We have our own debate in Philadelphia over the...

When does a cult become a religion? It seems to me to be a question akin to the one about a tree falling in the forest. There is no correct answer. Mitt Romney is a Mormon. Is he also a Christian? Is he a member of a cult? That...

Two nights in a row I was a little late turning on the ballgame. Last night, I turned on the game in the bottom of the 1st and the Yanks were already down 2-0. They never managed to tie it up, and they lost the game and the...