Author: BooMan

Casual Observation

After the 9/11 attacks, everyone loved New York and was eager to bomb someone to avenge it. After the economic collapse, everyone hates New York again. Somehow, this feels more comfortable. Like an old pair of sneakers.

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Casual Observation

So, they found water on the moon, but they also found a lot of Mercury. I don’t want to go any place with a lot of Mercury. The stuff is totally toxic. There’s no word on whether they found any Venus. The science and...

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Google Tax Loophole

Google is a great company, but they’ve robbed us of more than a billion dollars a year over the last three years. Google Inc. cut its taxes by $3.1 billion in the last three years using a technique that moves most of its...

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An Era of Misdirected Anger

One place where George W. Bush can still get standing ovations is at the University of Texas at Tyler. The university’s president introduced him by saying that Bush was the “most determined, principled, compassionate and...

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George W. Bush Bush said he sat in the White House with his economic advisors Henry Paulson and Ben Bernanke three weeks into the economic downturn. He said Bernanke told him, “If you don’t do something significant,...

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