Alternate Brain

It seems like about every twenty years or so, we have to buy Christmas presents for little kids. I haven't quite figured that one out ye...

A time for whoring. Chapter 10 of my novel The Captains is up at The Practical Press .

This should be the equivalent of throwing the skimmer in the gene pool. Only in Texas.

Smirking Chimp : I have no idea why this story was not on the front page of every newspaper and at the top of every newscast yesterday, but ...

The Guardian (UK) via Maru : What an amazing bloody catastrophe. The Bush administration's policy towards the Middle East over the five...

18 months ago I threw down the gauntlet : ... I'll go these warmongers one better. If Jonah Goldberg makes the attempt to enlist, so wi...

Fiore .

Yahoo!News LONDON (AFP) - Prime Minister Tony Blair's government will hold a parliamentary debate on Britain's role in Iraq by the e...

I've said elsewhere that the current mess in the Middle East can be linked directly to a couple of pistol shots fired in Sarajevo in 191...

This is a matter of National Security. The reasons it has not been addressed aren't so simple,but the solutions to the problem ARE. The ...

As I head out the door. Moderate : ...OK...here's the deal... if you don't have the balls to say...send every ship, plane, truck, h...

So first it was scallions (green onions). Then it was the white onions. Now it's the lettuce . WASHINGTON - Lettuce was the most like...

If I made a video game where you can gun down proseletyzing Jesus freaks when they block your way on the sidewalk or follow you down the st...

Before the election? Sen. Tim Johnson (D-SD) has apparently suffered a mild stroke, according to various news sources. Political Wire's...

Observations from this New Yorker stuck in traffic. One of the most beloved people in New York is Yankee great Yogi Berra . Yogi can say s...

What Mrs. F was doing while she was away on business.

Lately, when the Chimp is asked what the debacle in Iraq will do to his legacy, he says that history will remember him well. Not so much : ...

The Mrs. got in on a late flight last night and I overslept. Fortunately, we have a furry alarm clock who won't let it get too late bef...

Wolf Blitzer 2 minutes ago: Is America ready for an African-American or female President? Me: Ready ? We're begging for it. Fuck all...

Jonathan Chait Try to mend Iraq all you want; just don't tell Bush the war was a mistake. There is a famous "Twilight Zone...