Author: BooMan

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...

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

Yesterday, the Council of Europe condemned the United States for torturing terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The Council of Europe is made up of three main institutions: European Court of Human Rights Commissioner...

Last weekend, my wife and I got in our car and left the city.  We drove out of Philadelphia, past the airport, onto the blue route.  Our destination was an old used bookstore, a bookstore we hadn’t visited in...

They have played baseball on 161st Street in the Bronx since 1923. In all that time, with so many legends having roamed the grounds, no player has ever been responsible for 10 of his team’s runs in a game. Not Babe Ruth or...