Author: BooMan

Summering with the Patrons of Death

Why doesn’t it surprise me to learn that Donald Rumsfeld summers in an estate called Mount Misery and that it is the same estate where Frederick Douglass was beaten, before escaping? The houses have names. Mr....

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Crisis in Gaza

Well, this is a novel development. According to The Australian, Israel is now threatening to assassinate the Prime Minister of Palestine. This is after Israel seized a sizeable portion of the parliament. Thousands of Hamas...

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Frivolous Friday Open Thread

I’ll be at Phil Lesh & Friends tonight. It doesn’t get much more frivolous than that. While I’m gone have some fun, but try not to shoot anyone in the face or start a preemptive war with no exit...

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Help Jim Marcinkowski Out

Politics can make strange bedfellows. Growing up, reading anything I could find about spies and the CIA was just one of my many quirky habits. I never imagined that one day I’d have a blog (they didn’t even exist)...

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Lee Seigel on Baseball Hats

I’m half tempted to set up a blog wholly dedicated to making fun of The New Republic. They are so bad, in a B movie kind of way, that they are actually good. They’re kinda of like the Corey Feldman of political...

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