Author: BooMan

I’m so hip that I’d never heard of the band Eagles of Death Metal before their concert was attacked in Paris. I’m very sorry for what happened to them and their fans. Having watched their interview with Vice,...

I once defined Palinism as Bushism stripped of all its redeeming features. I think that’s still true, but now it’s the entire Republican Party that is Bushism stripped of its redeeming features. It’s...

Are companies like Uber and Airbnb “taking major parts of our economy backwards to pre-New Deal conditions” as Steven Hill contends in his new book, Raw Deal: How the “Uber Economy” and Runaway Capitalism Are...

Yesterday, some Christians of the literalist variety got their Twitter knickers in a twist over a Google doodle celebrating the 41st anniversary of the discovery of the Lucy fossil. You know, because if we evolved from apes, why...

Nate Silver gives Donald Trump a 20% chance of winning the Republican nomination and tells the rest of us to stop freaking out. And, as usual, Silver brings some data to the table to support his assessment. Here’s...