Author: BooMan

Grind Your Ax

Everyone seems to be playing their assigned role in reaction to the shootings at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic. Dude was clearly nuts. He beat his ex-wife and got arrested for being a peeping tom, so obviously he...

Read More

Trump’s Success Is Not “Our” Fault

Washington Post columnist Kathleen Parker is appropriately appalled by Donald Trump, who she refers to as a “a mean, narcissistic, bloviating SOB.” She accurately describes him as “the ultimate personification...

Read More

Into the Memory Hole

Ten years ago, today, a rich defense contractor rented out the Rainbow Room for his daughter’s bat mitzvah and paid Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty, Kenny G, Don Henley, Fifty Cent, and Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith to...

Read More

McConnell Seeks to Boost Big Money Again

In the June/July/August issue of the Washington Monthly, former Bill Clinton-pollster Stanley Greenberg discussed areas of agreement between “downscale” white working class voters and reform-minded progressives. His...

Read More

Do We Have Basic Minimum Standards?

Do you think this is the kind of country that would replace Barack Obama with a president who mocks people for their disabilities? This is actually a serious question. And before you object, I know all about the previous...

Read More