Alternate Brain

From Blondie : [. . .] Da windiz of da fancy stawz. Ya gotta tell da kids dat dere's no way ya gonna buy dem shit in doze staws ...

WaPo columnist Tom Shales writes about Bill Moyers' retirement. I present it here in its entirety. Bill Moyers Gets In the Last Wor...

Via TBogg , this is disgusting : ITHACA, N.Y. - Nearly half of all Americans believe the U.S. government should restrict the civil libert...

Lambert's in Berlin (I'm jealous) and brings us this after visiting the Reichstag: [. . .] So, our Constitution, with its Bil...

Got turned on to this guy yesterday, watching the news over dinner. That Communist Peter Jennings had this guy as the Person of the W...

Shayna is still indisposed (haven't got my new computer yet) so Gord's girls, Molly and Bridget, have agreed to fill in. I...

Bull Moose is a real good blog. This comment is about the looming rift (Thank you, o kind and decent Deity) in the Republican Party. Moose ...

WASHINGTON ( Reuters ) - The White House gave a new vote of confidence on Friday to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld amid growing criticism...

Pilfered from Steve Goddard : Parallels to Iraq Lest you think the mess in Fallujah has no precedent, The Nation re-runs a 1968 colum...

James Wolcott has few things to add to Bullmoose's proposal (scroll down a little) to scrap the Presidential Inauguration. No, Americ...

This editorial in the WaPo frosted my balls. YISHAI ASIDO is an 11-year-old boy in Loudoun County who refused a class assignment last mont...

Barry Grey at the World Socialist Web Site (Ooh! The 'S' word! They'll be coming for me now, you bet!) says out loud what the M...

From the Columbia Political Review via Seeing the Forest : A short answer to the question of why we lost: Bush had more room for error. ...

Stolen from WTF : W ake the #uck up already When are the Dems going to stop being such deaf, dumb and blind dickheads? I don't know...

I was cruisin' yelladog and linked to the Guardian and got this jewel: BILOXI, Miss. (AP) - Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should ...

Via Kos : Nearly 900 children have lost a parent in Iraq Sad to the depths of his 4-year-old soul, Jack Shanaberger knew what he ...

"This nation should never settle for mediocrity." Go fucking figure.

From Richard Cohen in the WaPo. Where's Kerik? This is the question I asked myself as, one by one, the pictures of the latest Presi...

Maureen Dowd of the NYTimes has an all-American solution for Rumbo's failure to give the troops what they need. But, hey, it's Chr...

From the Ess Eff Chronicle : Courts turn journalists into criminals - Tim Crews Wednesday, December 15, 2004 An American journalis...