Author: BooMan

Porter Goss resigned today as the Director of Central Intelligence. There are several possibilities for why Goss chose to resign now. One obvious possibility is that he intends to beat the filing deadline to enter the Republican...

Dan Froomkin characterizes Jon Stewart and Steven Colbert. Their very subversive message, at its core: That this Bush guy is basically a joke. And that the mainstream press is a joke, because it takes Bush at his word.” I...

Where’s Carnacki with a happy story?

The right-wing commentariat is showing signs of senility. I’m reading more and more mainstream wingnut editorials that make no sense, that are poorly written, constructed, and articulated. Peggy Noonan’s They Should...

I’m not making this shit up: Asked to name the news source they most trusted, without any prompting, 59 percent of Egyptians said Al Jazeera, 52 percent of Brazilians said Rede Globo, 32 percent of Britons said the BBC, 22...