Author: BooMan

Sy Hersh on Abu Ghraib

Seymour Hersh strikes again. He revisits Abu Ghraib by getting an interview with the man who investigated it, Gen. Antonio Taguba. Most of the damage reflects on Donald Rumsfeld…no surprise…but it ties into a lot of...

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Broderific Observations

For the first time, in like, forever, David Broder has penned a column that gives me nothing to quibble about. Nothing. Maybe we are finally getting some sense stuffed into that bald head of his. Broder makes two points. First,...

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Wanking Open Thread

I swear to the Flying Spaghetti Monster that I get more google hits from this search than any other. I’m currently ranked fourth on the ‘how to wank’ search result, although I’ve been as high as two. And...

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14 Senate Women

There’s a new documentary coming out, made by the daughters of Sens. Lincoln and Boxer, called 14 Women. It’s about the women in the U.S. Senate. Mary Ann Akers says it should have been called 14 Women (and Joe...

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Is China Sticking It To Us?

If you haven’t read Charlie Wilson’s War: The Extraordinary Story of the Largest Covert Operation in History, you should. It recounts the CIA’s massive effort to kill Russians during the Soviet-Afghan War...

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