Author: BooMan

Back on Valentine’s Day in 1989 the Ayatollah Khomeini issued his famous fatwa: The publication of The Satanic Verses in September 1988 caused immediate controversy in the Islamic world due to its irreverent depiction of...

If you are in the mood for levity it is hard to top the latest from the The Scotsman: Scotland on Sunday has obtained remarkable details of one of the most memorably bizarre episodes of the Bush presidency: the day he crashed...

February is an annoyingly short month, IMO.

I saw Phil Lesh at the Tower Theater last night and he jammed out. My mind is putty this morning. I sat down to read the morning papers and I am glad to see Armando has taken Fred Hiatt apart limb from limb. Hiatt’s...

Dexter Filkins reviews Paul Bremer’s new book: The most startling moment in “My Year in Iraq,” L. Paul Bremer III’s memoir from his days as the head of the American occupation, comes near the end, when...