Author: BooMan

The Size of Your Airport

Don’t kill the messenger: It is something one half of the population has long suspected – and the other half always vocally denied. Women really do talk more than men. In fact, women talk almost three times as much...

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Open Thread

If I were to write a book about blogging, what kinds of things would you hope to find in it? Would you buy it? Would you buy it if I mentioned you in it?

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Red State: Used Car Salesmen

Over at Red State they ran a poll on what our best option is in Iraq. Here are the results. Cut and Run11% (62 votes)S-U-M-M-I-T3% (19 votes)Stay the Course9% (52 votes)Can we unleash hell yet?63% (357 votes)Redeploy to the...

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Don’t Call it a Civil War

Someone last night on MSNBC, maybe it was Pat Buchanan, made a great point about why the administration and the Iraqi government are so adamant that the press does not call the carnage in Iraq a ‘civil war’. He said...

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Memory Hole: Helms Explains Mail Opening

On October 22, 1975, the Ambassador to Iran and former Director of Central Intelligence, Richard Helms, testified before the Church Committee. The Chairman, Frank Church (D-ID), wanted to know why the CIA had been opening...

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