Author: BooMan

Open Thread

We should have our new server online today. Can’t wait. What’s on your mind today? Football? Baseball? HBO programming? Remembering 9/11? The Hurricane Victims? What?

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Remembering 9/11: Unresolved Questions

Four years after the 9/11 attacks there are four theories of what happened. These theories can be summarized as follows: SNAFU- Situation normal- all fucked up. LIHOP- Let it happen on purpose. MIHOP- Made it happen on purpose....

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BooMan’s 9/11 Article

On the fourth anniversary, you can read my article about 9/11 (.pdf).  The article was finalized in January 2004, seven months before the 9/11 Commission report was issued.  Therefore, it takes no cognizance of any...

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New Server

You all went and made this site so popular that it killed our server. Well, actually, you haven’t quite killed it, but you have made it choke on all your great writing. Too much data. By tomorrow, we should be up on a new...

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Iraq Tries out its New Army

I suppose this is progress: Iraq’s government said it launched thousands of troops against rebels in the city of Tal Afar on Saturday and ordered the nearby border with Syria closed to stem what Baghdad calls an influx of...

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