Author: BooMan

Good News on the Economy

Here is some very good news on the economy. Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 5.7 percent in...

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Casual Observation

It’s probably silly, but this Sally Quinn piece by Jamison Foser is my favorite kind of blogging. Sally so deserves the mockery. I think it should be put in the party platform that members shalt not party with Sally Quinn....

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Serious Question

Shouldn’t Sarah Palin make some kind of outrageous Tweet or something? People are beginning to forget that she exists.

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RIP, J.D. Salinger

We hardly knew you. In his honor, a favorite excerpt from A Perfect Day for Bananafish: Sybil immediately stooped and began to dig in the sand. “Let’s go in the water,” she said. “All right,” said...

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Obama’s Aspirational Language

I call the following rhetoric from the State of the Union speech ‘aspirational,’ because it isn’t objectively true or false. It’s a call for all of us to be better people and better citizens. It...

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