Author: BooMan

Casual Observation

I’m relieved and modestly reassured that at least some important quarters in the CIA look back at Team B as a case study in how not to do intelligence analysis. Also, too, Douglas Fucking Feith.

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The Russia Investigation

I’m not going to be dishonest and tell you that I have faith that the congressional Intelligence committees, which are both controlled by the Republicans, are going to do an honest investigation of Trump’s ties to...

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The Right Wants No Dissent

Republican lawmakers are less fond of public protest now that it’s not the Tea Party doing the protesting. In Arizona, the Senate just passed a bill that would “would open up protests to anti-racketeering...

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Lack of Accountability Brought Us Here

As much as I admired them, I always stayed at arm’s length from German philosophers like Kant, Hegel and Schopenhauer because of their efforts to create theoretical constructs or systems that could explain everything. I...

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