Author: BooMan

Paul Manafort Really Needed $16 Million

Compare: Financial records filed last year in the secretive tax haven of Cyprus, where Paul J. Manafort kept bank accounts during his years working in Ukraine and investing with a Russian oligarch, indicate that he had been in...

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Rep. Ryan Costello is Really Losing It

My congressman, Ryan Costello, is well-respected in my community. He’s a local boy who did good. He knows he represents a district that voted for Obama once and for Hillary Clinton. He doesn’t throw bombs and keeps...

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Trump Doesn’t Know Fact from Fiction

Asha Rangappa is a former FBI counterintelligence officer who now lectures at Yale University. She’s written a piece for Politico that explores some fairly obvious points about the damage that can be done to our...

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Donald Trump Jr. Needs to Shut the Fuck Up

Remember when the Vietnam veteran Walter Sobchak and the pacifist Jeffrey ‘The Dude’ Lebowski took a break from bowling to discuss the upcoming Persian Gulf War? WALTER: Sure you’ll see some tank battles. But...

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Casual Observation

We bought a new refrigerator about three weeks ago, I guess. Today it made a sound and I kind of freaked out for a second because I couldn’t understand the source. It’s the first time I’ve heard it make a noise...

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