Alternate Brain

Oy, what a year and I'm glad it's over*. Too much personal shit went on this year, too many friends and relatives (and my wife) wit...

To blogwhore. Chapter 12 of my novel The Captains is up at The Practical Press .

Josh Marshall has a few thoughts about Saddam and Bush's failure in Iraq: This whole endeavor, from the very start, has been about taki...

The three-year charade is over. Saddam Hussein is dead. The Rude One weighed in just prior to the Big Drop: And once he hangs, as he will a...

Calling all wingnuts, Saddam is dead so now Iraq will turn into this great, shining, peaceful democracy on the hill. Congratulations, you ...

Commander Huber on the hanging of Saddam Hussein: Stand by for things to go ape.

Brother Lurch comments on the lessening of his pessimism about the plans of this administration: I used to figure Messers Bu$h, Cheney and...

TPMmuckraker Five years after the Sept. 11 attacks, Osama bin Laden is still at large -- but that's not a failure of White House policy,...

From BoingBoing : In the vein of inappropriate/unexpected graphic adaptations of literature... my father, a psychiatrist with the Vetera...

John Dean poses answers to the burning question: What Should Congressional Democrats Do, When the Bush Administration Stonewalls Their Effo...

This one is pretty much just for laughs, although it's indicative of a trend we've noticed the last few years to downplay reality an...

When this whole Duke Lacrosse Team rape case came up, I cautioned bloggers not to jump the gun until all the facts were in. Sex crime alle...

You poll lower than the Devil ... by a lot .

Gord's post yesterday quoted that dipshit and paragon of morality and decency Bill Bennett: You're a former President Mr. Ford, sho...

Please go read this .

Normally I wouldn't post anything from Bill Bennett, but this one takes the fuckin' cake! From the Nat'l Review : Since "de...

Pic courtesy of Cute Overload . Anything is possible if you work hard enough at it.

I'm not on the "Gerry Ford was a good man and a good President" bandwagon. He was just another for whom the 'good of Amer...