Alternate Brain

Revenge is a dish best served cold. I'm going to suggest an idea that Bush/Cheney/Rove will hate. That alone should make this post worth...

60 years ago today, we learned we can kill people with more efficiency and in greater numbers than we ever could before. Pray we never feel...

How's 38%? Ha-Ha! WASHINGTON - Americans' approval of President Bush's handling of Iraq is at its lowest level yet, according ...

Steven Vincent , a freelance journalist from New York, has become one of more than two dozen journalists killed in Iraq this year. Possibly...

We can only hope. From Australia : "Media mogul Rupert Murdoch and his eldest son Lachlan, who last week resigned from the family'...

Princess Shayna "When's mom coming home, damn it?" Cattle Dog note: Notice all the hair on the rug in my office? Australian ...

Go see Bizarro .

Roberts helped the queers ! How crazy do you think the Wingnuts are gonna get over this? Heh.

Since we've been on the subject, the CultureGhost has been messing around with evolution ( here and here ). Excellent. I'm certai...

Freiheit und Wissen has a great post up on Novakula.

Just got this e-mail from the Mrs.: "TOWEL HEADS" Recently I received a warning about the use of this politically incorrect term,...

From a story at YahooNews about the latest Marines to be wasted uselessly killed in Iraq: "We are never going to win this thing milit...

Pic courtesy of Maru . Update: 15:45: For another great pic, visit the Colorado Vets .

This has been on other blogs recently, and here , but if you haven't read "Fisking the 'War on Terror'" by Juan Cole,...

This is a coupla weeks old, but well worth reading seeing as how we're climbing Media's frame today. Iraq Veteran Paul Rieckhoff at...

Frances Cerra Whittelsey in The Nation: So now we know for sure. Those "highly placed Bush Administration sources" anonymously qu...

I would have posted this earlier, but it took awhile for the blood to return to my brain. Greg Moses at Counterpunch has the best idea yet ...

Atrios expresses my feelings on this exactly: [. . .] Kudos to our wonderful media for treating this as a he said/she said issue , where on...

I was gonna post on this but in light of Gord's post below, and in the spirit of not beating a dead horse, I'll just send ya over t...

Go see the picture at Dependable Renegade , another NYC blog. Heh. Thanks, Cleek .