Alternate Brain

There's a place we do business with called Al's Hubcaps and their motto is "Cover Your Nuts". From the Dept. of Don't...

I've been on a project around the Fixer household to replace the old fashioned incandescent lightbulbs with the energy-saving flourescen...

Barack just moved up a notch in my book, though he still creeps me out in some way that I just can't put my finger on.

SEATTLE -- Modern hunters rarely become more famous than Jim Zumbo. A mustachioed, barrel-chested outdoors entrepreneur who lives in a log c...

You sure know how to pick 'em . What's in the water up there? Regards, Fixer

Telegraph : Israel is negotiating with the United States for permission to fly over Iraq as part of a plan to attack Iran's nuclear faci...

Of blogwhoring in the 1st degree. It's Saturday and that means another chapter of my novel The Captains is up at The Practical Press .

Patrick Yelladog clued me in to this the other day via email and I've seen blog posts ridiculing it. I still think it's a parody ...

And have become him .

In one of the comments, our pal Badtux left a poem by Wilfred Owen about disabled soldiers. Mr. Owen is known for his poetry about the ho...

Daily Kos 2 women, yesterday, wanted to speak to their imperial senator; obviously, a senator is above that kind of 'wallowing in the ma...

Army Times The Army is deliberately shortchanging troops on their disability retirement ratings to hold down costs, according to veterans...

Politico.com Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut told the Politico on Thursday that he has no immediate plans to switch parties but sugg...

60 Minutes "Just because we volunteered for the military doesn't mean we volunteered to put our lives in unnecessary harm and to ca...

This is from a post in a private usenet group (Thanks, Pierre) can't find it on line so I'm posting in toto here. Not much that I ca...

But you'd better watch where you dance. Serious : ... A state court is upholding the city's Prohibition era law that bans social da...

Over 50 million Americans have no health insurance. Hospital corporations, pharmaceutical houses, and HMOs are recording record profits whi...

. . . and all that interests most of the mainstream media is dead or dysfunctional white girls. From N. Y. Times via truthout "A distur...

Booman : ... I think we should start working on flipping a Republican Senator. Does Olympia Snowe want a committee chair? How about Chuck Ha...

The Aussies love the Dickster: Pic thanks to Watertiger