Alternate Brain

Git'cher MoDo workin'... A tip o' the Brain to Tennessee Guerilla Women even if they don't know how to spell it.

I am typing as fast as my poor bruised little index finger can handle, hoping it doesn't happen again. I just wrote a real long post abo...

One of my new favorites, Matt Taibbi , who calls 'em like he sees 'em, on Bush's recent PR speeches on Iraq. Bush in person alwa...

Stolen from Attaturk : We all know that outside of blowing up some foreign swarthies the thing you loved most is money. If anything you obse...

My man Dave Johnson : ... To what extent is it possible that today's Republican Party scandals are not just about traditional corruption...

Federal prosecutors and lawyers for Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff consulted briefly Friday with a federal judge in Miami as they put the...

Five years in office and he's taken a fucking year off .

As always, courtesy of our pal Bob Geiger . And a good one from the Old White Lady.

The United States Coast Guard . The United States Coast Guard is a military, multimission, maritime service and one of the nation's five...

WASHINGTON ( Reuters ) - The U.S. Justice Department is investigating who disclosed a secret domestic eavesdropping operation approved by Pr...

The Last Stand of the American Republic : ... How will the Establishment deal with this direct challenge? The past few years give little gro...

Gillard : Well, at least this can be said of him: he has more balls than our chickenhawk trolls.

So much for tax and spend Liberals. Jane's coined a name for the Repubs. Why? This : Treasury Secretary John W. Snow said yesterday ...

This is just plain un-fucking-believable: The U.S. has war plans drawn up to invade CANADA fer chrissake! I had to check my calendar to mak...

Paul Krugman , gleefully stolen from Free Democracy . The last two paragraphs: A year ago, most Americans thought Mr. Bush was honest. (What...

Here's a letter at Act For Change that you should sign that will Ask Attorney General Gonzales and the U.S. Congress to appoint a spec...

From Molly Ivins Apology: I bit on a bad story in my Dec. 20 column. The tale of the UMass-Dartmouth student who was visited by the feds fo...

The new rules: 1. No free speech. Criticizing a Republican is illegal. Criticizing any Republican policy is illegal. You so-called 'm...

Lurch again. Don't miss this one. It'll make your eyes roll back in yer head.

Apologies to my pal Badtux but you have to play .