Author: BooMan

Casual Observation

One of the weirdest things is how every pizza joint in New York City is named Ray’s Pizza or Ray’s Original Pizza or World-Famous Original Ray’s Pizza. It’d be one thing if they were chains, but...

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Open Thread

This is just a note to thank everyone who contributed towards my new laptop. I didn’t raise as much as I hoped, but I raised enough to offset most of the cost of a new MacBook which I got at a great price. This is the...

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Obama’s Better Dialogue

President Obama has gone and done something to freak out every Islamophobe right-wing conspiracy theorist in the country. He’s made a comment that is bound to be repeated out of context for the remainder of his presidency....

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Celebrate National Fist Bump Day

If it is June 3rd then it must be National Fist Bump Day. Moments before taking the stage to deliver a speech that needed to claim victory and unite a fractured, primary-fatigued Democratic Party, a weary but elated Obama got...

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Review of Bloggers on the Bus

I finally got a copy of Eric Boehlert’s new book, Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press. The book is of special interest to me because I sat down with Eric for forty-five minutes last year in...

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