Author: BooMan

Baseball, Warner, Hillary, and Politics

It shouldn’t be surprising, but the best hitters in baseball have extraordinary vision. Barry Bonds and Jason Giambi have both been implicated in performance enhancing drug-use. I don’t doubt that they cheated. But,...

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House Playing Games With Minimum Wage

So, you are a political junkie, but you have no idea about obscure parliamentary tricks of the House? Never fear. Today, the Republicans pulled out a motion to instruct in order to provide some cover for their endangered...

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Using Your Thoughts to Move Stuff

When I am not obsessing about politics, I am checking into the latest in neuroscience. My education was in philosophy and history and my focus was on the history of religion and of course the mind/body issue is kind of paramount...

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I Don’t Have Any Evidence

Forgive me if I get upset. I really am not enjoying the monopoly on power that the GOP currently enjoys. It leads to shit like this: The Bush administration is preparing a crackdown on intelligence leaks to the media and will...

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News Roundup and Idle Thoughts

Everyone should check out pastordan’s interview with Barack Obama. You should also look at Robert Novak’s explanation of his role in Plamegate and Marcy Wheeler’s take on it. My take? Marcy needs more time to...

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