Author: BooMan

Sometimes our discourse is so stupid that it takes the energy right out of me. I can’t take another minute of debate over how many days it took Bush or Obama to respond to a Christmas time failed attack on an airplane....

Yesterday, Jed Lewison had a piece over at Daily Kos that was a rebuttal of sorts to a piece by Hendrick Hertzberg in The New Yorker. Lewison was mainly concerned to defend Markos Moulitsas’ honor, as Hertzberg had...

Truer words… “I’m very proud of the job I’ve done and the results delivered,” Dodd said. “But none of us is irreplaceable. None of us are indispensable. And those who think otherwise are...

I nominate David Vitter as the politician least worthy of reelection in 2010. We’ve all heard about his diaper-wearing visits to cathouses, but that’s only a tiny fraction of the problem. The truth is, without George...

There were four big announcements over the last two days. U.S. Senators Byron Dorgan and Chris Dodd both announced that they will not be seeking reelection. Bill Ritter, the governor of Colorado, did the same. And John Cherry,...