Alternate Brain

Couple feet. Long Island is starting to look like Gordon's neighborhood.

Via Pam : A top North Korean official has told U.S. legislators that the communist state possessed nuclear weapons, Radio Free Asia repor...

Good rant from Mike Whitney in Counterpunch . The Bush inauguration is designed to shock the American public into noticing the fundamental...

Mark Fiore has an interesting Interactive Inaugural Map to all the festivities last Thursday that you weren't invited to. From Mother J...

Cooperation was lacking this week.

A WaPo editorial about the lack of public access to the Chimpathon: THERE WERE, in the end, protesters along the route of President Bush...

Two posts struck me. Tresy, over at Corrente, has emigrated north of the border : [. . .] From our new home we will continue the same...

From the King : That's what George Bush said, and I don't agree with that at all. We're all responsible for our actions in ou...

I am really something That's what you'd probably say So smoke your little smoke And drink your little drink While I dance the ni...

There's a good article on Social Security in the January 24 issue of Time magazine: Is There Really A Crisis? . Also related ar...

Thomas Friedman in NYT via Atrios : [. . .] Funnily enough, the one country on this side of the ocean that would have elected Mr. Bus...

We're in for four more years of this shit . Never mind that Bin Forgotten is still on the loose, the Bushites are losing sleep becaus...

Math seems to be running through my posts today, like grease through a goose. I like this one by Maureen Dowd : Lawrence Summers, the presi...

Honest to Murgatroyd, G-Man, my old fart of a poetic muse made me do it: Fixer and Gordon may finally get to meet this Spring, at Gitmo N...

I'm watching MSNBC's coverage of the coronation and one question comes to mind. Can Chris Matthews take Dubya's cock any farthe...

Toronto Star via Melanie : It has been said that George W. Bush is in denial of reality, in Iraq and elsewhere. But what of America itse...

Stole this from The Culture Ghost , as I think it befits Coronation Day. Bush is my shepherd; I dwell in want. He maketh logs to be cut dow...

From Gadflyer : What, according to the American Family Association, is the greatest threat to our nation? Terrorism? Environmental degredat...

That pesky Guardian again, God bless their Limey hearts: A poll of 21 countries published yesterday - reflecting opinion in Africa, Latin ...

Chris Suellentrop of Slate has some thoughts on the Social Security swindle. Explaining how both the "Social Security crisis" an...