Author: BooMan

Here’s some appalling tsunami footage. It’s a little under six minutes of footage. The last minute or so appears to show a lot of humans in the water. I wonder if jishuku is consistent with creating the kind of...

The strange thing about Juan Cole’s defense of the Libyan intervention is that he didn’t touch on any of my objections at all. I’m not a pacifist; I am not an anti-imperialist absolutist, and I never said that...

Before there was terrorism, or fascism, or communism, this country was dedicated to the proposition that monarchies are illegitimate and inherently tyrannical. Since then, monarchies have mostly disappeared in the West and Far...

I actually watched St. Elmo’s Fire a month or so ago. I wanted to set the entire cast on fire, they were so annoying. No wonder they called them the Brat Pack. It was a truly self-indulgent godawful movie, and not in a...

Geraldine Ferraro has died of complications from multiple myeloma. My thoughts are with her family and loved ones. Japan is becoming increasingly toxic, with the widespread soil contamination probably their biggest long-term...