Alternate Brain

On Friday night, it was my good fortune to catch Bela Fleck and the Flecktones on the season debut of the Sierra Center Stage series on PB...

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, in town for a fund-raiser for Sen. Rick Santorum, had a close encounter with a large group of...

A transplant, yet a California Girl I'm kinda proud of, Nancy Pelosi lays out her agenda for the House. From AP . Franklin Roosevelt ha...

When I was 14,a male,adult family member tried to molest me(he did not succeed.However,I believe this incident,along with other factors,help...

Or, Yankee Go Home. Seen on the main drag in Horta, Azores:

Impeachment anyone? TomDispatch lays it out. As per usual, take a lunch. Today's 'must read'. Never before has the system of go...

USA Today Hundreds of people called the Bush administration's policies a crime and held up yellow police tape along a three-block stretc...

Keith Olbermann lit into Bush big time yesterday. Transcript and video. The president doesn't just hear what he wants. He hears things ...

I guess you Squids know about this but this was new to this old AF weenie. We pulled into Ponta Delgado and I saw all this great grafitti o...

I was awakened this morning about 5 by a flash of light (even through the dark curtains) from my balcony and an excruciatingly painful noise...

An e-mail from the Missus: [-Just before the funeral services, the undertaker came up to the very elderly widow and asked, "How old was...

I came across Talk To Action in the normal course of my erratic skiddin' around the Net. You have arrived here, most likely, out of you...

Go read 'em at Project Censored . Some you've probably heard about, maybe some you haven't.

Andrew Bard Schmookler on how and why the American people got to be such pussies. Today's 'must read'. How did we ever get to b...

Bob Geiger If there's one thing you have to concede to America's Religious Right, it's that these folks have an amazing media an...

From my Congressional Candidate Charlie Brown (CA-04) comes a call for Hastert to resign . Please sign the petition here . Update: After I s...

From the Atlanta Progressive News Iraq Veterans for Progress (IVFP) is supporting the campaigns of four candidates running for the US House ...

Something's bugging me about this whole Mark Foley business. Ok,alot of things,but this one thing really stands out. People knew this gu...

Since the big news of the day seems to be wall-to-wall all-pedofoleygate-all-the-time, all the really important stuff is relegated to second...

We crossed into the Atlantic about 1 this morning and what a sight. Africa to port, Europe to starboard and we entered into the Straits of ...