Author: BooMan

Conservatives Hate Children’s Programming

Not to open myself up for criticism, but since I’ve had a son around, I’ve begun watching some children’s programming on television. I stick pretty much exclusively with the PBS Sprout network because it has...

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Update on Palin’s Revere Idiocy

Apparently, the right-wingers, in a desperate effort to vindicate Sarah Palin’s retelling of history, have found a passage written by Paul Revere himself wherein he describes his capture by British forces, having a gun...

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Casual Observation

James Carville and Stan Greenberg’s Democracy Corp polled different messages and came to a depressing conclusion. They discovered that any Democrat who talks about the Republicans’ responsibility for creating our...

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In Haiti, America Isn’t Helping

The United States would be a lot more popular around the world if we didn’t do things like demand that Haiti not raise its minimum wage from 24 to 61 cents an hour. Our Deputy Chief of Mission down there, David Lindwall,...

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Using the 35 New Words

Hey, all you newbs should open your lappys and head on over to the Oxford English Dictionary to check out the ZOMG! thirty-five new words accepted this year. It’s totally not NSFW. If you’re sitting around nekkid in...

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