Author: BooMan

This is from an acquaintance of mine: To explain my email address. The Golden Notebook is a phenomenal and highly sociological novel by Doris Lessing, published in 1962. In it, the protagonist has four different notebooks into...

Put your happy thoughts here. Sellouts: 1. Akaka 2. Inouye 3. Cantwell 4. Rockefeller 5. Byrd 6. Bingaman 7. Lieberman 8. Nelson (FL) 9. Nelson (NE) 10. Baucus 11. T. Johnson 12. Dorgan 13. B. Lincoln 14. Salazar 15. Conrad 16....

Update [2006-1-30 14:57:39 by BooMan]: Republican Senator John Ensign-(NV) was in a serious car accident this morning. He was taken to the hospital. His injuries are not reported as life threatening. I wish him a full recovery....

There are certain set pieces in the great game of espionage. One is to convince an adversarial intelligence agency that one of their operatives is a double agent. If you discover this agent is travelling to Copenhagen twice next...

I had a roommate once who asked me to leave the phone in my name when I moved out. He was low on cash and didn’t want to pay the installation fees. He gave me his word of honor that he would pay the bills and switch it...