Author: BooMan

Wow. You can’t make shit like this up. It looks like the crowded field for the Democratic nomination for Senator in Maryland just lost one candidate. David Dickerson is one of 18 Dems seeking the nomination. But he was...

Wanker of the Day, plagiarist Jeff Jacoby: “Chicken hawk” isn’t an argument. It is a slur — a dishonest and incoherent slur. It is dishonest because those who invoke it don’t really mean what they...

I don’t mind being criticized for intemperate language. Many members here took me to task. But being called: “a bit too close to the gates of (Marxian) Hell”, “racist”, and accused of “bald...

Walter Shapiro engages in snark: The devastating poll results for Republican Ken Blackwell in Sunday’s Columbus Dispatch — showing him 20 points behind his Democratic rival in his bid to become the most conservative...

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