Alternate Brain

In my never ending effort to bring you the finest examples of the kind of music I like, I look at dozens of videos every weekend. It's a...

Montag : A first rate liar for a bunch of second rate crooks who want to make America a third world country. Your family will miss you. That...

I watched Desert Dreamers the other night on PBS. I spent a lot of time in the Mojave when I was younger and it was closer. Lotta character...

Saturday means another chapter of Birthright is up at The Practical Press . The reason I'm late today is I've been doing the taping...

One of the things that bugs me about Corporate Country Music is that they'll put up videos at YouTube but you can't swipe 'em fo...

Bush Tours America To Survey Damage Caused By His Disastrous Presidency

Jude at First Draft is outraged and with every right to be: So. North by East decides to make a list of the fifty most-influential female ...

Watch this if you missed it.

I'm hoping my people live up to their reputation and give the Chimp the finger : There's been an interesting twist in the ongoing be...

This is turning out to be one of those days. I've already dealt with a trip to the vet with a sick pup, Maggie , who was consuming mass ...

It needs to happen soon, and it won't be just about energy policy. Click to emragen

It is very telling about the current state of affairs vis á vis Iran that this article at TomDispatch passes for good news. Today's ...

Naomi Wolf The sexualization of torture from the top basically turned Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay into an organized sex-crime ring in whic...

The Charlotte Observer RALEIGH -- L.F. Eason III gave up the only job he'd ever had rather than lower a flag this week to honor former U...

BuzzFlash The "nation of whiners" quote , where John McCain's economic adviser Phil Gramm accused the country of being in a ...

Think Progress This morning, Karl Rove refused to appear before the House Judiciary Committee to testify about the politicization of the Jus...

Lisa hits it on the head : ... Most people today don't know this life, but this was the U.S. less than 75 years ago. "A Week of Hun...

No limit. Our paid 'security contractors' in Iraq better watch their butts : The Iraqi armed services are likely to target widely-h...

Subtitled "A monument to his years in office." The George W Bush Presidential Library is now in the planning stages. The Library w...

Tony Peyser One could easily argue that the major thing That completely set this putz off Is Barack's not playing old school politics Ha...