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BooMan wrote a new post, Gen. McChrystal Condemns President Trump’s Character and Leadership, on the site Progress Pond 1 month, 3 weeks ago

In July 2010, when Stanley McChrystal resigned in disgrace, few people questioned it because he had violated military protocol by allowing members of his staff to be quoted by Rolling Stone making comments cr […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Wisconsin GOP Plans Atrocities, on the site Progress Pond 2 months, 2 weeks ago

This is an important Twitter thread on the Wisconsin Republicans’s plan to commit a series of atrocities against democracy next week.

I think you should do what ever small part you can to raise awareness about […]

BREAKING—as in breaking democracy: a truly shocking & naked power grab underway in Wisconsin. Dems won every statewide race this Nov. Now, the GOP unveiled sweeping bills to straightjacket the Gov & AG, stomp on early voting, & lock in power on state Sup Court. Votes THIS TUE. 1/

— Ben Wikler (@benwikler) December 1, 2018

BooMan wrote a new post, It’s Not About Centrism vs. Progressivism, on the site Progress Pond 3 months, 1 week ago

Matt Taibbi makes one unassailable point in his latest piece for Rolling Stone. Whenever the Republicans lose they say that their candidates were insufficiently conservative and whenever the Democrats lose the […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Zoe Lofgren’s Moment Has Arrived, on the site Progress Pond 3 months, 1 week ago

There are a lot of committees in the U.S. House of Representatives. Some are very prestigious. The Ways & Means Committee handles taxes and entitlements. The Finance Committee oversees Wall Street. The Judiciary […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Trump’s Bad Day in Court, on the site Progress Pond 3 months, 2 weeks ago

The conservative assault on the federal courts has been very substantial during the first two years of Trump’s presidency but things have still not broken irrevocably. On Friday, the Supreme Court declined to […]

BooMan wrote a new post, The Price of Being Multisyllabic, on the site Progress Pond 4 months, 2 weeks ago

In the 1970’s, the U.S. Navy decided that they wanted an independent assessment of how difficult it was to read and understand their training manuals. The result was something called “the Flesch-Kincaid scale,” […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Why I Believe Dr. Ford, on the site Progress Pond 4 months, 2 weeks ago

All of this drinking in high school stuff is bringing up a lot of memories for me, not all of which I’ll share because my mother doesn’t really need to have flashbacks or be triggered at this point in her life. […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Life of the Privileged, on the site Progress Pond 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Everett Edward Kavanaugh Jr. was born in New Haven, Connecticut on June 9, 1941. It’s not too hard to figure out why he was born in New Haven. His father, Everett Edward Kavanaugh Sr., was not only born there but […]

BooMan wrote a new post, What Senator Flake Gets Right, and Wrong, on the site Progress Pond 4 months, 3 weeks ago

I have a few observations on Jeff Flake’s interview with McKay Coppins:

McKay Coppins: As of Friday morning, you were planning to vote to confirm Brett Kavanaugh. By the afternoon, you were calling for an […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Sen. Flake Forces Delay in Kavanaugh Vote, on the site Progress Pond 4 months, 3 weeks ago

There was a lot of drama in the Senate Judiciary Committee today but ultimately they moved on a straight 11-10 party-line vote to approve Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court and send it to the full […]

BooMan wrote a new post, The Kavanaugh Confirmation Will Be Truly Dangerous, on the site Progress Pond 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Thomas Jefferson justified American independence from the British Crown by invoking the concept that no government can be legitimate without the consent of the people it governs.
We hold these truths to be […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Brett Kavanaugh’s Nomination Should Be Withdrawn, on the site Progress Pond 4 months, 4 weeks ago

Ronan Farrow and Jane Mayer have a new piece up at The New Yorker that is going to give a lot of people a migraine headache. On the face of it, it doesn’t seem like the kind of thing that would stop the […]

brendan wrote a new post, The Metaphor, on the site Still Calling 5 months ago

Several years ago, as the Iraq War began to really go south, I saw a metaphor.

I did not conceive a metaphor. I actually saw one, in 3D, floating through the sky.

My band, the Flat Possum Boys, had played […]

BooMan wrote a new post, I Knew There Would Be Days Like This, on the site Progress Pond 5 months, 1 week ago

Days like today make me weary. I don’t like reading about how we’re going to try to destroy the International Criminal Court, close the PLO mission in Washington DC, or have a second stupid summit with Kim Jong […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Jeanine Pirro’s Fascist Television, on the site Progress Pond 5 months, 2 weeks ago

Fox News host Jeanine Pirro was married for thirty-eight years. Her divorce was finalized in 2013. Who knows what goes on between two people or why such a long relationship might ultimately fall apart? They […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Why Trump Can Be Removed From Office, on the site Progress Pond 5 months, 3 weeks ago

While the information is mixed, there seems to be a downward trend in President Trump’s approval numbers over the last couple of weeks. I think we’re often left wondering what it will take for a more significant […]

BooMan wrote a new post, A Site Announcement, on the site Progress Pond 5 months, 3 weeks ago

For the remainder of this week, I’ll be doing very light blogging. I have to find some time during the year to get a break from this bullshit, and late August is usually pretty slow as far as political news goes. […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Donald Trump Has 99 Problems, on the site Progress Pond 5 months, 4 weeks ago

I vaguely remember hearing about a doorman who worked at Trump World Tower who claimed to have knowledge that the current president of the United States fathered an illegitimate child with a housekeeper. His […]

BooMan wrote a new post, Trump Once Called Manafort a Crook, on the site Progress Pond 6 months ago

I’ve been in a holding pattern today, just in case the jury in the Manafort trial completed their work and delivered their verdicts. I guess that isn’t going to happen on a timetable that is convenient for me. So, […]

BooMan wrote a new post, A Terrifying Meeting in Helsinki, on the site Progress Pond 7 months, 1 week ago

Maryland just announced that they’ve unwittingly allowed a Russian oligarch to gain control of important elements of their voting machinery, but the White House and Republican-controlled Congress aren’t […]