Author: BooMan

There’s no telling when our friendship with the Saudi regime will pop up and bite us in the ass, but it’s bound to do so from time to time. The latest episode? The first secretary of the Saudi consulate in Los...

From time to time (usually, once a month) I ask readers to make a contribution to the upkeep of the Frog Pond. Ordinarily, this is just enough to keep the server humming and the place afloat. But the time has come to do some...

Hey, if you want to get nostalgic, think back to when we all felt united and we were proud of how we all came together. And, you know, The Boss had something important to say. Didn’t happen. George Bush and Dick Cheney...

But, we’re not stoopid: The Pew Research Center asked people this summer to identify the current chief justice of the United States from among four possibilities: John Roberts, Thurgood Marshall, John Paul Stevens and...

I know it is September 11, but I’ll leave the remembering to others. I don’t want to remember. Maybe you do. Maybe you want to reflect on those who lost their lives that day, nine long years ago. I was angry. I was...