Author: BooMan

Chewing the Cud, or Infinite Rumination

Some time in the not too distant past I wrote a piece about why I could foresee the possibility of a brokered GOP convention where the delegates would have to bicker among themselves to come up with presidential and...

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Saturday Night Open Thread

Well, lookey here!! My brother has a big new article for us to read. As is his wont, he is telling us that we don’t understand population growth. The U.N. now projects that over the next 40 years, more than half (58...

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Feel the Cainmentum!

Apparently, the Republicans are doing one of these stupid Straw Polls in Florida today. The problem is, the base hates all the candidates, which makes picking someone in the Straw Poll a bit of a challenge. Byron York speculates...

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Is Rick Perry Really So Bad?

I turned off the Fox News/Google Debate after about 40 minutes because I was in kind of a bad mood and I just couldn’t take any more lunacy. I had not noticed that Governor Rick Perry was having a particularly bad night....

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Casual Observation

I am somewhat surprised that so many people are shocked that Amazon operates like a domestic sweat shop. That’s why I offer the opportunity to buy your books from Powell’s. Yes, shopping is political, too.

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