Alternate Brain

Well, it's tomorrow, but the Mrs. is taking me out for dinner tonight here . The fact of how this relates to the blog is that there def...

Karl Rove on Sean Hannity's show. From NewsMax : "And you've also got to have a couple of surprises - and we've got a c...

I just heard about this site by James Wolcott , and this is the first post I saw: The allusion in "Tweet Smell of Success" to ...

There are people who don't bother to vote because they think that their one measly vote won't count. I can tell you from personal ex...

Here . Flip-flopper extrordinaire.

Courtesy of Steve Goddard's History Wire : Don't Take Your Vote For Granted In a presidential year in which only about half t...

For those who give a shit, I updated our non-political blog, which is now called The Fixer & Gordon . Truths about the auto and motorcy...

From Matt Yglesias : . . . I don't have a great deal to say, either, except this: Right now would be a bad time to become overconfide...

From Media Matters : In the buildup to the first presidential debate , some CNN commentators called the event "a decisive moment...

Here's a good one as I watch MSNBC . Do you think the Bush administration arranged for Mt. St. Helens to erupt to suck the oxygen away ...

I wasn't gonna add any more on the debates because Gordon said all there needs to be , but I saw this over at TBogg : I don't wan...

Excellent and disturbing article on global warming in this week's Time magazine. The fate of one stubborn little village normally wo...

On the debate by E.J. Dionne in Working For Change : On Friday morning, Democrats all over the United States emerged from their homes wit...

From today's Washington Post : The House ethics committee admonished Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) last night for offering a pol...

Been through the Liberal Blogosphere this morning, checking out the first takes of the debates last night. My opinion? Next to my man Gordon...

Debate transcript via Pandagon is here .

The first "debate" is just over and here's my impression: Kerry was poised, forthright and strong. He didn't sweat or s...

Margaret Carlson now has a weekly editorial in the LATimes. This one is disturbing. Freud, on his deathbed, asked, "What do women wa...

Editorial in the LATimes There's a new front in the Justice Department's war on terror — a battle against press freedom. Duh. ...

From Kevin at Lean Left : [. . .] The press in this country is so ineffective, so wedded to the idea of "balance", and so co...