Author: BooMan

Open Thread

Another day, another town hall meeting full of lunatics. It’s going to be a long, long recess. Fortunately, no ‘real Americans’ are opposed to health care reform. What’s gnawing at you? Update [2009-8-11...

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RIP Eunice Kennedy Shriver

Sad news: Eunice Kennedy Shriver, a member of one of the most prominent families in American politics and a trailblazer in the effort to improve the lives of people with intellectual disabilities, died early Tuesday morning at...

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Deep Thoughts

I’m sitting on the back porch of my cabin in the woods listening to a symphony of crickets and cicadas. I have a little friend. It’s a toad that is no more than two and half inches long from front to back. By this...

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Dana Milbank’s Heroic Irreverence

Well, you called the Secretary of State a bitch, Dana… “What I have noticed is that the conservatives have been saying, ‘He’s just not funny.‘ And now the left wing is saying, ‘He’s just not funny,’” Milbank said. “Either...

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Serious Questions

With just 24 percent of Tarheel Republicans believing that Barack Obama is a citizen, I think we need to reanimate Sigmund Freud to help us understand what is going on. I also think we should try to figure out who is primarily...

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