Alternate Brain

Cdr. Huber : ... And I am horrified that, by fiat of the worst commander in chief in U.S. history, a vital decision on foreign policy is abo...

A megachurch canceled a memorial service for a Navy veteran 24 hours before it was to start because the deceased was gay. As the pastor s...

I'll admit to being a Francophile. Pudentilla : ... no french soldiers have died in iraq. french citizens pay half what americans do fo...

Thank you, Fixer, for the trip down memory lane with this week's art. It's very nostalgic, warm and fuzzy even, to recall the good o...

Last night I was walkin' my pup about 11:30. I do this every night, but last night I got a great reminder of what time of year it is. I ...

That darlin' Old Ay-rab : President Bush has the Democrats' number on Capitol Hill. All he has to do is play the fear card and invo...

The great PSoTD in toto : Anyone who thinks we need a horrible terrorist event in our country to "wake America up" is a potential...

Do I have to dig up all the instances where I've said one day Gord and I will be fixing Humvees in Kuwait? WASHINGTON (AP) - Frequent t...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York police stepped up security throughout Manhattan and at bridges and tunnels on Friday in response to an Interne...

As with every Saturday morning, barring cataclysm or vacation, another chapter of my novel The Fourth Estate is up at The Practical Press ....

One man's porn is another's political witch hunt : WASHINGTON, Aug. 9 — Tom Rogers, a retired Indianapolis detective, toils away mos...

I got this via e-mail from an old school friend just a few minutes ago. I think it behooves us all to attend a class reunion every half cent...

Digby hits the nail on the head : ... Only in a society and economy fueled by high tech imperial warmaking could "sacrifice" be se...

Salon has a good article on the ease with which our troops can score smack in Afghanistan, the how and why, and what may lie in store for r...

Stolen from PW @ Jane's .

Good stories, one in Newsweek about global warming, and in related news, one in Time about New Orleans.

As global warming. Yeah, and if you ever told me we'd get a tornado in Brooklyn I'd ask you to share whatever you were smoking. An ...

*With apologies to Audie Murphy and Fresno . As you know (backstory here ), Me'n Mrs. G went to Fresno to pick up her new sled last Sat...

p m carpenter's commentary on the situation in Basra: Maybe Dick only meant to say that Basra is in the last throes of things going pre...

Go see "Rove's Diary" at The Crisis Papers : Impeachment "off the table"? Thank you, Madame Speaker. You've just...