Author: BooMan

Theo Padnos’s long piece on Syria is welcome reading as the U.S. Government begins to seriously consider declaring Assad’s rule illegitimate. It’s a sign of how complex it is to navigate the Middle East that...

That 28% of home mortgages are underwater doesn’t surprise me. But this does: In Las Vegas, 85 percent of homes with mortgages were underwater, the most of any city tracked by Zillow. Other metropolitan areas in the top...

It’s climbing season again on Mt. Everest. As you might remember, I’m kind of obsessed with reading about every death on Everest. It didn’t take long for a fatality to occur this year: An 82-year-old former...

What did Wall Street want to hear when Speaker Boehner appeared before the Economic Club of New York last night? According to Bloomberg, they wanted to hear that Boehner is going to raise the debt limit: “What Wall Street wants...

The whole SlutWalks thing is an interesting development. I had seen a reference to the term, but I didn’t know what it meant. I guess it traces back to some Toronto police officer who said women shouldn’t dress like...