Author: BooMan

Frivolous Friday Open Thread

An Irish man walks into a pub. The bartender asks him, “what’ll you have?” The man says, “Give me three pints of Guinness please.” So the bartender brings him three pints and the man proceeds to...

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A Sad St. Patty’s Day for Tweety

Chris Matthews won the Media Matters 2005 award for Misinformer of the Year. And it was richly deserved. But the most damning thing about Media Matter’s documentation for the prize wasn’t misinformation per se. The...

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The Tyrant Enabling Act

Forbes reports on a new bill that is being introduced by Senators Olympia Snowe, Chuck Hagel, Mike DeWine, and Lindsay Graham. It should be dubbed the Tyrant Enabling Act. Rather than have an investigation to determine the true...

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Krauthammer: Idiot

No one in American punditry is more consistently wrong than Charles Krauthammer: And now, polygamy. With the sweetly titled HBO series “Big Love,” polygamy comes out of the closet. Under the headline...

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Open Thread

Senator Harry Reid of Nevada, the Democratic leader, said Thursday that given Mr. Bush’s record, “I really do believe this man will go down as the worst president this country has ever had.” Good...

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