Author: BooMan

Filibuster Open Thread

If you are so inclined, give a donation to the Princeton student’s filibuster. I grew up in Princeton, and these folks are making me proud.

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The Newly Free Afghans Love America

Lest you think that Iraq is our only burning foreign policy crisis, news from Afghanistan is not too encouraging: Shouting “Death to America!” more than 1,000 demonstrators rioted and threw stones at a U.S. military...

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No End in Sight

Screaming “Allahu Akbar” to the end, the foreign fighters lay on their backs in a narrow crawl space under a house and blasted their machine guns up through the concrete floor with bullets designed to penetrate...

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Lurker’s Thread

We have now reached 840 users. And our latest addition is named ‘willisreed’. Willis Reed was a center for the New York Knicks who won two championships with my personal hero, Bill Bradley. We have a lot of users...

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Grateful Dead Lyrical Exegesis: Part Two

A recurring theme in Grateful Dead songs is the outlaw on the run. For those of us who travelled around the country to see Dead shows, the lyrics were easy to self-apply. In Friend of the Devil we hear: ‘I lit out from...

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