Author: BooMan

I take Maureen Dowd at her word that her almost word-for-word plagiarism of Josh Marshall was inadvertent. The reason? It would make little sense for her to think she could get away with such blatant lifting without attribution,...

I note another banning controversy has erupted at Daily Kos. This time, it is over a mostly thoughtful diary by longtime user TocqueDeville (UserID: 8353) who must have signed up around the same I did many years ago....

There are fewer and fewer states where the two U.S. Senators are from different parties. And in many of those states, like Missouri, Louisiana, Indiana, and South Dakota, the Democrat is pretty damn conservative. Iowa kind of...

Somewhat surprisingly, President Obama gave the commencement speech at Notre Dame University today and the world did not come to an abrupt end. I can’t tell you how boring I found this whole controversy and how thankful I...

So, Dick Cheney’s secret, undisclosed location was actually a bunker built directly under his home in the Naval Observatory. I guess you call that ‘hiding in the plain sight.’ It looks like Cheney had the...