Author: BooMan

The Nation’s Image Lays in Ashes

People can talk all they want about ‘framing’ and appealing to churchgoers, and representing people who drive pick-up trucks with confederate flag bumperstickers. That’s all bullshit. We, as a country, one and...

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Contra Creationist Open Thread

“… rarity by itself shouldn’t necessarily be evidence of anything. When one is dealt a bridge hand of thirteen cards, the probability of being dealt that particular hand is less than one in 600 billion. Still,...

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That Half-Written Book that Iraq Derailed

Below, I present the outline of the half-written book I started to write after 9/11.  It was the gradual realization that Bush was taking us to war in Iraq, and that the biggest problem facing our country was not...

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The Country Needs an Exorcism

Five years into the Bush administration, and four years into the ‘war on terror’, and three years into the war in Iraq, the country is broke, terrorism is on the rise, and the Mess o’ Potamia is worse than...

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Open Thread

I am mindful not only of preserving executive powers for myself, but for predecessors as well.” — George ‘Shrubya’ Bush, Washington, D.C., January 29th, 2001

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