Author: BooMan

Glenn Greenwald has a new book coming out. It’s about George W. Bush’s Manichean moralism. Greenwald explains here and Salon is running an excerpt from the book here. I have a quibble with this use of the term...

Sen. Barbara Boxer is holding a hearing on the air quality at the World Trade Center during the clean up. Update [2007-6-20 10:30:1 by BooMan]: Correction: the hearing is being chaired by Hillary Clinton. What’s on your...

Too bad I missed this conference this year.

When Senator Craig Thomas died on June 4th, it created an empty seat. In most states the Governor selects a replacement that serves until the next even-year election. Wyoming is different. This is unfortunate because Wyoming...

Does this seem right? When he was 13 years old, Anthony Circosta shot another kid in the arm with a BB gun, which was not a nice thing to do. And even though Circosta’s shot did not break the kid’s skin, Circosta was...