Author: BooMan

This Isn’t Getting Anywhere

It’s probably helpful to have someone like Dennis Ross in the room when discussing policy options towards the Israeli-Palestinian question. But he’s only helpful as a kind of canary in the coal mine, who will tell...

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Goddamn Stink Bugs

I hesitate to tell you this because you won’t want to come visit me, but we’re infested with stink bugs for probably the third straight year. We can’t get rid of them. The exterminators offer us no hope. And...

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Explaining the Rapture

This is a notice that if you are living in the Pacific Time Zone, the Rapture will actually begin at 11pm tonight. I know it is supposed to occur on May 21st, but the truth is that it will happen at 6pm in every time zone. So,...

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Not of Fan of Extending Mueller

Personally, I am not much interested in the FBI’s internal personnel rules. However, I am not happy that President Obama has asked Congress to extend FBI Director Robert Mueller’s statutory ten-year term for two...

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Mazie Hirono, A Progressive for Senate

It’s very rare that members of the the Progressive Caucus have an opportunity to win state-wide office. Other than Sens. Sherrod Brown of Ohio and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, progressives are pretty much shut out of the...

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