Author: BooMan

Theresa May Can’t Find the Brexit

It must be a fun day to be a Russian intelligence officer, especially if you had anything to do with helping the British decide to exit the European Union.  The Brexit vote is in heavy competition with the election of Donald...

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Read It and Weep

Reading stuff like this in the paper makes me want to go to the country, eat a lot of peaches and try to find Jesus, on my own. It’s hard to identify all the ways in which it is appalling. A resolution to encourage...

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Poor, Poor Paul Manafort

Twitter is overrun by right-wing trolls bemoaning the fact that Paul Manafort is in lockdown twenty-three hours a day in a VIP section of his prison. They characterize this as solitary confinement but it’s actually for his...

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Did Vietnam Send Us Their Best?

The New York Times has a great article up right now comparing the surprise upset victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to the primary victory of Elizabeth Holtzman in 1972. It’s of personal interest to me because I once...

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Will July 6th Be a Day That Lives in Infamy?

I guess we should remember the date. The trade war started today: A trade war between the world’s two largest economies officially began on Friday morning as the Trump administration followed through with its threat to impose...

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