Author: BooMan

Serious Questions

How many of you are working at the same job that you were before the September 2008 crash? How many of you lost your job or lost hours and income in your job? And how many of you had trouble, or are having trouble, finding new...

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Open Thread

I watched my first women’s soccer match today. It was the FIFA Women’s World Cup Final between the USA and Japan. I was very impressed with the quality of play, especially from the American side. They scored two...

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Checking In on the News Corp. Scandal

I don’t plan on writing much about the News Corporation scandal unless and until it becomes more of an American story, but things are really heating up in the United Kingdom and investigations have begun here in the...

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Wanker of the Day: Maureen Dowd

If you are uncertain about something important, you should use Google or some other search engine to resolve the question. Someone needs to explain this to Maureen Dowd. Her column this week is about the mistrial in the...

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Finding the Sweet-Spot

If I were the editor of this Reid Wilson piece, I would have asked for at least one original quote on the record. Nevertheless, its reporting is decent and its analysis is correct. Privately, House Republicans have been driving...

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