Alternate Brain

Sorry I haven't been around today. I just got too much shit to do. I'll try to post something of substance after dinner.

Princess Shayna keeps an eye out for her crazy friend across the street. As you can see, Mrs. F is doing better, able to sit up in the li...

MyWay BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - U.S. and Iraqi troops pressed their sweep through a 100-square-mile area on Friday in a bid to break up a center ...

Margaret Kimberley at AlterNet : Every year the Sons of Confederate Veterans use the North Carolina statehouse to celebrate their annual Co...

You are now $30,000 more in the hole than you were a couple days ago. My lovely neighbor : In today's episode of Fuck The Poor, the Se...

I think Ben Wood brought it up in 'comments' here over the past week and Creature jumped on it last night . The Dems seem to be su...

Well, if I haven't scared the crap out of you yet today, this one oughta do it. Salon reviews Kevin Phillips' new book . American...

Good metaphorical rant at Clusterfuck Nation . My own guess is that actual conditions in the household may be too far gone for even Mommy t...

We here at the Brain have touched on this before, but Antiwar.com's Paul Craig Roberts says it well: If you were President George W. Bu...

NYPost ALBANY - Gaffe-prone Republican attorney-general candidate Jeanine Pirro has done it again - bragging about her knowledge of upstate ...

I like long sentences. Here's one of the grammatical kind from Will Durst : I don't know about you guys, but I am so sick and tired ...

I'm usually not one to say that, especially in a team setting where all should learn from missteps and move on to better things. Howeve...

The great Bob Geiger : In case you missed it in the Senate yesterday, Daniel Akaka (D-HI) proposed a bill to increase Veterans medical servi...

I am bashing the Dems lately. Know why? Because they're (not all of them) a pitiful excuse for an opposition party. You know who : .....

Robert Parry weighs in on these losers. So, by the time he ran for president in 2004, Kerry was silent about his heroic investigations of t...

So I'm watching Lou Dobbs in the wee hours this morning ( last night's show ) and he's got that twit John Fund on, along with Mi...

Neocons eulogize their hero . Heh...

... Republicans savored the Democrats' discomfort. Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., pushed for an immediate floor vote; Democrats pr...

Sirotablog has this: Election '06: GOP Culture of Corruption vs. Dems Culture of Weakness The American Heritage Dictionary describes...

Molly Ivins on Bush's foreign policy: Until Sept. 11, except for staring deep into Vlad Putin's ice-blue eyes and concluding the o...