Alternate Brain

I had to. From the lovely Via :

Via Skippy , of course: [. . .] The reuse of some object-oriented code has caused tactical headaches for Australia's armed forces. As v...

[. . .] Bush is a classic Caligula-type personality: "(He) is preoccupied with fantasies of power and being loved. Such a person requir...

Yesterday, in the wake of the news about the rockets widely missing the supposed targets of two U.S. ships in Jordan, I did a post about th...

Via Truthout : I got an email the other day and it said, "Cindy if you didn't use so much profanity ... there's people on the f...

Jon Carroll sounds off on Intelligent (cough) Design: Intelligent design is not science. It is not even a field of study. It is a belief sy...

As we all have no doubt heard by now, Al Qaeda is claiming credit for firing three rockets at the USS Queerbarge Kearsarge. I expressed som...

Baby pictures: Princess Shayna at about 6 months.

Than the Rude One : [. . .] See? You get it? It's not that the administration's a bunch of stumblefucks who couldn't wipe their ...

Excellent article on Kinky Friedman and his run for governor of Texas in The New Yorker. Kinky, in his life and work, has always felt most c...

On Aug. 19, 1934, a plebiscite in Germany approved the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler as Fuhrer. Of course, that could neve...

Just to keep us focused, I present this post at The Poor Man Cafe . He starts by quoting Paul Begala on " Anti-War Imagery and the Ico...

[. . .] Two different news media consortiums reviewed Florida's ballots; both found that a full manual recount would have given the elec...

This via Wolcott : It's over. For the U.S. to win the Iraq war requires three things: defeating the Iraqi resistance; establishing a st...

Add your name to the Freedom of Information Act request. Jane : [. . .] Well here's your chance to bear witness to the fact that you di...

From Jaime O'Neill : Because most of the fighting now being done requires far less marching than was once needed, it is only reasonable ...

Donna Gillespie in the EssEffChron : It's time for the pro-choice movement to change its name. "Pro choice" is not a slogan t...

A very big hat tip to Glen .

This one totally pisses me off. From OhioNewsNow : AUSTIN, Texas A decorated Marine doesn't qualify as a Texas resident any more because...

Marjorie Cohn at Truthout : Why didn't Bush simply invite Cindy in for tea when she arrived in Crawford? In a brief, personal meeting w...