Alternate Brain

One of my favorite ELP tunes. As poignant today as it was in '71. Emerson, Lake, and Palmer - Battlefield Clear the battlefield and let...

This is one of Fixer's favorites. Minnie the Moocher The cartoon in its entirety here . It's Shopping Saturday. Over the mountains a...

Note to Canuckistan: Keep this shit up and we'll bring you democracy . Heh. Toronto Star Historians will argue over whether George W. Bu...

Here's some really good flatpickin' by Tony Rice . This is from an old lesson tape. Lesson: Just play it like Tony does.

The next chapter of Thirty Days at Zeta is up at The Practical Press . And, keeping up the tradition of taking you guys with us when we go ...

Not so much .

This is good .

Excellent piece at Empire Burlesque 1.0 : What will become of us without barbarians? Those people were some sort of a solution. – C.P. Cava...

AP WASHINGTON - The passport files of the three presidential candidates — Sens. Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain — have...

P.M. Carpenter , from his new digs at BuzzFlash as 'The Fifth Columnist'. Although no one yet knows anything of any verifiable subst...

Tony Peyser When John McCain made a foreign policy gaffe in Jordan, Joe Lieberman quietly pointed out the mistake, giving McCain an opportun...

Patricia Ward Kelly in toto : Re “Soft Shoe in Hard Times” (column, March 16): Surely it must have been a slip for Maureen Dowd to align th...

Jeff Fecke channels Yakov Smirnoff : ... As Yakov Smirnoff might say: "In Soviet Russia, government reads secret passport files on poli...

Pic stolen from our pal pygalgia . Update: A sample of the 'democracy' we brought to Iraq (might be disturbing).

Sometimes Fixer inspires me . To new heights of oldfartism, probably, but I just had to express my sentiments musically, so here we go. And ...

CNN TWENTY-NINE PALMS, California (CNN) -- U.S. Marine Lance Cpl. Mario Ramos-Villalta flashes a broad smile from beneath his camouflage ca...

Some days, ya just run across interesting fun stuff... The Body Odd (MSNBC) Dr. Billy Goldberg: The past eight weeks of my life have revol...

BuzzFlash Editor's Blog Amidst the passionate and contentious Democratic primary, all of us may have taken our eyes off the pending poss...

Before I head out. If you have been watching the Dow closings lately, you'll notice the only 'up' days are days when the Fed tak...

I did a double-take when I heard it this morning: When you read this story, you have to play back in your mind the vision of Brian Ross get...