Alternate Brain

I changed the look again in my unending, anal-retentive quest to make this thing read better. I think I just need new glasses. Update: 21:2...

William Rivers Pitt on Iraq, the draft, the Senate filibuster compromise 'n other stuff. I think he crammed it all into one op-ed so he...

To Impeach Bush. I'll let the Sister explain it : In follow up to this post , I'm working on compiling the list of bloggers who wou...

Norman Solomon gives a little perspective on the annual media coverage of Memorial Day. Via Truthout . Memorial Day weekend brings media r...

Just . . . duh ! Via Smirking Chimp . Here . [July '04] Here . [September '04] Here . [October '04] Here . [November '04]

I wonder how many of 'em got suckered into playing 3-card Monte on the street during the Repub Convention here in NYC in '04.

Froggy says the Canadians should tighten theirs . . . to keep certain Americans out.

I told ya . The lovely Pam: Adelphia cable adds gay channels, dumps Christian ones

John Lombard looks it over .

Pissed off Patricia at Blondie's points up why those who voted for the war in Iraq, before voting against it should have called bulls...

Work continues on Auschwitz South's Guantanamo's death chamber. BBC via Granny : A court and execution chamber could be built at t...

Eddie Albert, long time movie star, best known for his role as a transplanted city slicker in the TV show "Green Acres" passed awa...

Maybe I can unpack my road box? Representative Lynn Woolsey (D-CA) offerred the following amendment to the House defense appropriation (H....

I am struck today by the hopeful tone of our posts. (Just scroll down. I'm lazy.) It appears that folks are starting to notice there...

One again going over site stats and amused at the search terms used (Google) that will spit people out here. "Brain Ethics" "...

OK, maybe I'm slightly over-exuberant, but this is good news. From the Houston Chronicle : AUSTIN - A judge ruled Thursday that the trea...

From Raw Story : A coalition of activist groups running the gamut of social and political issues will ask Congress to file a Resolution of I...

Thomas Friedman on Gitmo: Shut it down. Just shut it down. I am talking about the war-on-terrorism P.O.W. camp at Guantánamo Bay. Just shut...

Paul Krugman, who no doubt has read Fixer's posts (Hell, he's in one of 'em), here and here , on the "housing bubble...

[This was originally posted 27 May 2004, a year ago. I could have written it today.] Why I bitch You're probably saying to yourself. ...