Author: BooMan

Why Are There So Many Candidates?

Over at Mischiefs of Faction, John Patty has a theory for why there are eleventy billion Republican presidential candidates. There’s a bit of casting about for an answer, but what he ultimately arrives at can be summed up...

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Happens to Big Leaguers, Too

It’s plays like this that made me happy to give up my centerfield position and take over at shortstop. Many Little Leaguers could empathize with [Brett] Gardner, when the Yankees left fielder lost Davis’ flyball in...

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Casual Observation

Until today, I had not considered the potential impact of cyborg uteruses on the Supreme Court’s willingness to maintain a meaningful right to an abortion.

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Jefferson-Jackson and the Progressive Split

I hate to bring up a touchy subject when I don’t have time to give it a full treatment, but I guess I’ll be a bit reckless here. With the news that the Connecticut Democratic Party has responded to pressure from the...

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We’ve Seen This Movie Before

Basic privacy concerns have always prevented me from writing about certain things, particularly some of the important people in my life. I did mention for the first time the other day that my next door neighbors growing up were...

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