Author: BooMan

On Fridays, other people cat blog. I have no idea why. I probably paid less attention to my cats on Friday than any other day. Here at the pond, I focus on frivolity. It’s hard to engage in frivolity when CNN is saying...

This is what failure looks like: “Iraq as a political project is finished,” a top government official told Reuters — anonymously because the coalition of Shi’ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki remains...

Good one from Atrios: It’s true that it’s Lieberman supporters who are the unhinged crazies. I don’t mean all supporters of Lieberman, but the ones writing spittle-flecked paranoid rants in the media about how...

I could do an Iraq news roundup, but this Associated Press article is good enough. The key portion of it? U.S. spokesman Maj. Gen. William Caldwell said there has been an average of 34 attacks a day against U.S. and Iraqi forces...

Any online community is going to have its occassional growing pains or internal strife. This community has been particularly invulnerable to such things. One reason is that it has been very welcoming to new members. Another...