Author: BooMan

Fading Pinstripes

It ended differently for my boyhood heroes. Thurman Munson died while practicing takeoffs and landings in his private plane in Canton, Ohio. Dave Winfield somehow got on the wrong side of George Steinbrenner and was traded away....

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Celebrity Death in My Backyard

The big news around here this week was the death of local celebrity and star of the Jackass movie franchise, Ryan Dunn. I have not seen any of the Jackass movies and generally disliked the television show because it made me...

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Stupid Republicans

With a new Gallup poll showing the public is already tired of our “support role” in Libya, the House Republicans are poised to issue a rebuke to the president and pass a bill that will cut off funds for drone...

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Newt Gingrich and Jim Crow Lite

Newt Gingrich thinks it was a mistake for Sarah Palin and Rudy Guiliani to mock Barack Obama’s experience as a community organizer because it made Obama’s radicalism seem trivial and “Obama is not a trivial...

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Wanker of the Day: Rand Paul

The following needs to be read in full, but I’ll provide you a beefy excerpt. The setting is the Senate HELP subcommittee on Primary Health and Aging, chaired by Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont. The topic is the human...

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