Author: BooMan

Spurred on by some of the comments in my On Courage essay, I thought I’d bring a new debate to the floor. Rather than discussing the differences between urban and non-urban voters, let’s discuss the difference...

What are you scared of?

I don’t see enough courage. I live in a rough neighborhood. There is gang activity. People get shot and killed. I’m an ethnic minority here. Everytime I leave my house I risk being mugged, or worse. When I go to a...

What’s with the strange messages in Atrios’s open threads? What’s up with you?

I spent the first two years of the Bush administration in a kind of stupefaction. In fact, it began even before Bush’s inauguration, which I watched in bed while my wife covered her head with a blanket and her ears with a...