Alternate Brain

Or is he tired of being the WH Spooge Bucket? It looks like Pat Roberts, of all people, has pulled a fast one on the White House, and hung ...

Ben has a great look (simple enough for people like me who count on fingers and toes to understand) at the Chimp's Health 'Savings...

Dick jokes at AlterNet . "But all kidding aside, and in fairness to Dick Cheney, every five years he has to shed innocent blood or he v...

Will Durst talks about Bush and warrantless wiretapping. Your calls are important to us. For quality control and training purposes, the res...

In the left sidebar of the Brain is a rude-but-right-on comment by David Rees of mnftiu , creator of the strip "Get Your War On". ...

I just watched the women's Olympic Snowboard Cross (see yesterday's post ). All four gals were about as good as they get. Our U.S. r...

Greenland's glaciers are melting into the sea twice as fast as previously believed, the result of a warming trend that renders obsolete ...

Austin Chronicle Driving 19th Street in Lubbock alongside the sprawling edifices of Texas Tech, the little tin-can car in front of me sport...

Normally, I don't much care for the WSJ Op-Ed page or this broad , but this one is kind of interesting, so I'll just hold my nose an...

No, not throttlin' up my snowthrower on a big powder day. Not any more. We've been watching the Winter Olympic Games every night. We...

Princess Shayna says George Bush is an environmental disaster in progress and worries for the green spaces where all her little furry friend...

Kreetcha [/NY accent] with a great cartoon.

Can Pat Roberts be any more of one ?

Or, 224 to 4 . I'm a fiscal conservative. That's why I became a Democrat. Update: And speaking of fiscal conservatism, enough is e...

From Eclecticism comes the lyrics to Willie Nelson 's new (well, recently released, anyway. It's been in the closet for 20 years.) ...

Two posts on hunting. This one by James Wolcott on Cheney's style of rich man's killing spree : "This line of talk reveals a st...

Editor & Publisher While Vice President Cheney continues to catch flak for grossly mishandling the aftermath of the shooting in Texas la...

Excellent editorial by David Ignatius in the wake of the Texas chainsaw massacree lawyer shoot. Nobody died at Armstrong Ranch, but this i...

A few days ago, Fixer posted about Bush selling off National Forest and Park land. It's gettin' pretty close to home for me. I live...

NYTimes With a shove from party leaders, Iraq war veteran Paul Hackett abruptly quit a key Senate race in Ohio and further exposed a disconn...