Author: BooMan

Fucking brilliant: A high-ranking Food and Drug Administration official resigned Wednesday in protest over the agency’s refusal to allow over-the-counter sales of emergency contraception. Susan Wood, director of...

The New York Times reports on a massive tragedy in Iraq: More than 600 people were killed and hundreds injured this morning when rumors of a suicide bomber led to a stampede in a vast procession of Shiite pilgrims as they...

Update [2005-8-30 17:18:59 by BooMan]: They are closing the Superdome because they do not have enough food, water, or medical care. I have no idea where they are going to take the people. Robert Plant sang about it, but I never...

We’ve added links to Powell’s Books to the site. If you buy a book through our links we will get a cut of the sales. We chose Powell’s over Amazon because Amazon supports Republican candidates. We chose...

Former C.I.A. Middle East specialist, Reuel Marc Gerecht, said on “Meet the Press,” that U.S. democracy in 1900 didn’t let women vote. If Iraqi democracy resembled that “we’d all be thrilled,”...