Author: BooMan

Shit Just Got Real

Happy Birthday, America! The North Korean missile that soared high above the Sea of Japan on Tuesday was hailed by state-run television as a “shining success.” But to U.S. officials, it was a most unwelcome surprise: a weapon...

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Germany Defriends Trump’s America

As Donald Trump prepares to travel to Germany for the G20 summit, he has succeeded in getting the country he leads defriended: In their campaign program for the German election, Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives...

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What Does Poppy Think of Trump’s Twitter Habit?

One of the first freakouts the right engineered after Barack Obama became president occurred only one week after he took office in 2009. They managed to win a full article in the New York Times dedicated largely to the fact that...

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What a President Pence Could Learn from FDR

Back in April, when the BBC talked to Thomas Homer-Dixon, chair of global systems at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada, about the prospects for the collapse of Western Civilization, they were told...

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Casual Observation

For the record, I do the exact same thing I’ve always done. It’s just that my neighborhood has gone to shit. Actually, my whole country has gone mad, so I guess I shouldn’t complain that much that my audience...

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