Author: BooMan

I’m back home at my log cabin in the woods. Having been locked up for ten days, it smells like some combination of a gym locker room, a swamp, and a pine forest. Hopefully, we can get it aired out before long. My trip went...

Pops head up. Looks around. Going without connectivity is good for my mental health. Pops head down.

I’ve been chugging along for nine months since Donald Trump was elected, trying to make some kind of contribution to the preservation of my country. I feel like, somehow, I’ve managed to do some of my best writing in...

Greg Sargent poses a hypothetical that isn’t really hypothetical at all: Because Trump is undermining our democratic norms and processes in so many ways, it is often easy to focus on each of them in isolation, rather than...

As early as last December, I was raising the alarm bells about the debt ceiling. In a piece called Will Trump’s OMB Director Blow Up the World?, I noted that Mick Mulvaney is a debt-ceiling truther who doesn’t think...