Author: BooMan

I wonder how Dick Durbin and Saxby Chambliss plan on convincing the House of Representatives to vote for tax increases as part of their deficit reduction plan. I mean, it’s nice that Chamblss (and apparently Tom Coburn and...

From an interesting essay: It would be one thing if Republicans were negotiating in good faith, recognizing that reasonable minds can disagree on the matters at hand and that each will have to bend. But the GOP has become so...

It’s interesting to see the Republican leadership of the House crowing about how they achieved near-unanimity from their caucus in support of Paul Ryan’s budget plan. I do understand that significant dissent on the...

Buying into Birtherism is only a minor thoughtcrime? I guess the Republicans are familiar with thoughtcrimes and assign them numerical scores of seriousness. I assume subscribing to some form of Dialectical Materialism is a...

I really enjoyed reading this Maria Bustillos piece on David Foster Wallace’s heavily annotated collection of self-help books. One surprise was the number of popular self-help books in the collection, and the care and...