Alternate Brain

Doing the detail work in the new dining room this weekend. Yeesh, what a pain in the ass. As always, the next chapter of Birthright is up...

Caught a little of Stevie Nicks on Soundstage last night. I got reminded of how good this gal is, and picked this one out of 257 versions...

Whatever respect I had for John Edwards, whatever hope I had for his being different, went out the window today. He's just another poli...

Now that I gotcha in the proper frame of mind, go read Mark Morford on the latest crop of pharmaceutical lunacy and its devastating side ef...

Normally, I would post something like this at Fixer & Gordon , but I'm not all that normal and neither is this video and I wanted t...

The last paragraph of a 'must read' column by Paul Krugman , with which I heartily concur: In any case, remember this the next time ...

Heh ... Talk about not getting what you expected : HELL'S KITCHEN - (WABC) -- An 86-year-old woman attacked in broad daylight in front o...

They'd better pray they don't run into an asshole like me who has no qualms about shooting back : Mayor Cheye Calvo got home from wo...

Not! Pic thanks to Logan @ C & L . [ A big welcome to Avedon's readers . ]

Our pal UL : ... What is the fucking deal with these sexually repressed sick fucks [ That would be conservatives. - F ] ? Is it that they co...

Click to, er, tumesce ... More at LATimes .

Raw Story US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says the nation would be safe under a Barack Obama presidency and that she is ruling out a ...

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Check your blood pressure before you take a walk on the Dark Side and go read this . Not far off the mark. Someone's got to be deep down...

Go read an inspiring story about a lady running for Congress in Alaska against all odds. She's a Dem running against the well-funded Dem...

Mark Morford Did you help put America's worst prez into power? Time to make amends Sure, you could start with an open-palmed apology, a ...

Denver Post ST. PAUL, Minn.—Advocacy groups that fight prostitution in the Twin Cities are gearing up for what they believe will be a surge ...

BuzzFlash Randi Rhodes and Air America Win Big Court Victory Against Alleged "Torture" Contractor CACI International had sued Rhod...

Avedon Carol on the guilty verdict in the first Gitmo 'trial': ... Interesting; war crimes have been defined down and up at the sam...

Anybody who's grown up in a place where they get snow knows what that is. Here's the non-snow version . Heh ...