Author: BooMan

Getting Credit When It’s Due

Unsurprisingly, I don’t agree with Peter Beinart on many details, but I agree with this: One can argue about whether the bill the Senate passed will truly change the way Wall Street operates, but off the top of your head,...

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Serious Question

I’m trying to understand what the hell Kathleen Parker is going on about. As best as I can tell, she’s saying that, for her, Obama is not a black man but more like O.J. Simpson (before he nearly cut his wife’s...

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Herding Cats

It’s getting close to time for the left to close ranks, unless you want to deal with a Speaker Boehner. I know I don’t. But, then, I haven’t been engaging in ritual cannibalism for the last year and a...

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World Cup Thread

Update [2010-7-2 17:30:1 by BooMan]: Okay, so don’t tell me that wasn’t the craziest, most dramatic, and crushing end of a World Cup match evah!! Uruguay on penalty kicks!! Netherlands or Brazil? I like both teams,...

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Michael Steele Steps in Poo

Maybe Michael Steele is tired of being RNC chairman because I’m pretty sure that he just got himself fired. Despite approving of the president’s surge of troops into Afghanistan last December, he now says this:...

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