Author: BooMan

The Mustache Fails to Assign Blame

Here’s Tommy Friedman, making a modicum of sense. …we have to solve the big problems in our control, not postpone them or pretend that more lobby-driven, lowest-common-denominator solutions are still satisfactory. A...

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Stupid Punditry

The first clue that he had no idea what he was talking about was when he called John McCain ‘affable.’ Poor, poor Britain. Their pensions are losing value because they’re all invested in BP. You want to know...

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World Cup Thread

The US soccer team just tied England 1-1. And they actually had more possession time and outplayed England in the first half. I didn’t think the US had the same crisp passing in the second half, playing in a bit of...

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Your Lousy Congress

I agree with everything that Steve Benen has to say about the political stalemate on energy policy. Everything, that is, except his assessment that politicians who oppose doing anything about carbon are taking that position...

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Bad Propaganda

I am often amazed at what the British press produces, and this article from Rupert Murdoch’s Times of London is no exception. I don’t really put much stock in the substance of the article, which explains that the...

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