Alternate Brain

On April 9, 1865, Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee surrendered his army to Union Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. ...

The hardly-ever-right wing bloggers, aka " The 101st Fighting Keyboarders ", have got their panties in a bunch over some Associate...

You deserve a break, so go enjoy a little light animated humor starring Rush Oxylimbaugh. Courtesy of A Mockingbird's Medley .

The Unemployed Philosopher's Guild (like, I can totally relate!) has a coffee mug: Pour in a hot beverage and watch your civil libertie...

There's a website called Drop the Hammer that is dedicated to getting corporate backers of Bugs DeLay to perform the titular act. There...

From Wolcott : While I'm chugging to the finish line of a column, I want to pause and alert members of the enlightment that Steve Gillia...

Relax. I'm referring to the band Widespread Panic . I ran across 'em while skiddin' the net and thought I'd share a story w...

I have my own ideas of what I like to listen to on the radio. My tastes are eclectic to the point of being downright subversive. I like NPR ...

Jim Hightower is a journalist from Texas. He bills himself as "America's No. 1 Populist" and I think he's at least in the...

You know, I've been to two hog callin's and a county fair, but this is a new one. From Uggabugga : More and more newspapers are repo...

Rumsfeld made this ridiculous remark a few days ago concerning Chavez’s arms purchases from Russia, “I can’t imagine why Venezuela needs 100...

A true American hero passed away recently. He stood up to the government when they did wrong. From the San Francisco Chronicle . In 1998, Fr...

I've always known you could tell quite a bit about someone from the kind of car they drive: If you had a big black American luxury job w...

Great! I wanna download The Spirit Of St. Louis ! But seriously, folks, the Smithsonian's Folkways Records division is getting set to o...

I'm 12 days into my hiatus and I'm happy to report things are going well. I should be able to get everything done that I planned. ...

From Truthout : Washington - If American forces aren't pulling out of Iraq in a year, a draft will be needed to meet manpower requiremen...

Ever prepared, the Voice Of America has prepared obituaries for many world figures. Responding to a Freedom of Information Act request, the...

I was gonna put this post in The Fixer & Gordon due to its automotive subject matter when I suddenly realized it's not just us gear...

Bush's hypocrisy makes me want to scream: ... Especially those who live at the mercy of others. The essence of civilization is that the ...

The thing that pisses me off the most in the case of Mrs. Schiavo is this: The misleading and flat-out wrong assertion by the pseudo-christi...