Author: BooMan

“We need only contemplate one more time how we are steeped in a nausea-broth of TV pundit-heads, coming to an intellectual climax every night”- Norman Mailer, The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing Beware of bowties and...

International Herald Tribune reports: WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 — Republican lawmakers said today that the Bush administration had reached an agreement with three crucial Republican senators on legislation to clarify which...

Karl Rove is promising an October Surprise. What is an October Surprise? Back in the early fall of 1980, during the election campaign between Ronald Reagan and President Jimmy Carter, the Republicans were looking good. Only one...

Orwellianism doesn’t start overnight or with a vast conspiracy. It’s much more mundane. Government officials decide to tighten up their message by vetting all interviews before they happen. The next thing you know,...

Brendan is well known to all members of the Philadephia chapter of Drinking Liberally.  He’s known for his humor, for his love of music, for his short-hair and white t-shirts, but also for the permanently pinned...