Author: BooMan

Simple Thoughts

One of the reasons I haven’t written more on health care is that even the good plan that Obama campaigned on is criminally wasteful and stupid compared to any single-payer plan used by any advanced industrial nation in the...

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Futbol Thread

The USA World Cup soccer team just defeated Spain 2-0 in the Confederation Cup semifinals. Spain had a 35-game unbeaten streak and was ranked number one in the world. This is the biggest upset in US soccer history. The USA will...

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Reflections on Sanford

Mark Sanford is a hypocrite and an adulterer, but those are not reasons for him to resign or be impeached. However, flaking out and leaving the country without providing for a succession of government is an impeachable offense....

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Strange Happenings

TPM Muckraker has a timeline on the strange disappearance of South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford, who appears to have gone Galt in Argentina for a few days without informing the Lieutenant Governor or his staff or his...

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