Author: BooMan

Frivolous Friday Open Thread

Rich Millers asks, in the Chicago Sun-Times, “What is it about the Internet that makes some political pundits, columnists and reporters so goofy? It seems like almost every time I read a mainstream media story about...

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WP: Smackdown of Bigot Goode

The Washington Post smackdown of Rep. Virgil H. Goode Jr. is pretty good. They call him a bigot in the headline. They call him ‘colossally stupid’ in the first sentence. Later on they say he is obnoxious and note...

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Understanding Our Own History

I read a great passage in a book this morning. I think it captures something essential. I hear right-wingers talk a lot about how people on the left ‘hate-America’, or ‘blame America first’. And I hear a...

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Open Thread

Is today the shortest day of the year? You can listen to a pretty cool interview with new congressman, Paul Hodes and find out what it’s like to go to DC after people elected to serve the people. What’s going on in...

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Why Are There So Many Bedwetters?

Let me ask you a hypothetical question. Let’s say that we knew 9/11 was going happen beforehand. Sure, maybe we didn’t know the exact day, and we didn’t know the exact method. But we knew there were 19 suicidal...

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