Alternate Brain

I like Old Time String Band music, which some more urbane types would call 'hillbilly' music. Sometimes I fergit that there's Af...

One of my favorite motorcycle songs, written by Gram Parsons after he wadded up a BSA . This appears to be from Austin City Limits and fea...

An interview with Rachel Maddow at MoJo. If you don't know by now, Rachel Maddow is the world's most unlikely cable news talk-show ...

Once again, we're in the middle of it , coming to the aid of a sinking freighter. It's been interesting.

P.M.Carpenter on 'bipartisanship' in the wake of Sen. Gregg's "Oops! I forgot - I'm a Repug" flip-flop on his nom...

El Rude-o The narrow-mindedness, clannish nature of the Christian right is sometimes just downright adorably hilarious. For their divorce fr...

I got this via e-mail from my old High School bud, Steve . Believe me, I open anything with 'colonoscopy' and 'Dave Barry' i...

Again. Our port call on St. Maarten didn't happen but we went to St. Thomas instead. No worries .

USA Today Even as Americans struggle with two wars and an economy in tatters, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds majorities in favor of investiga...

A coupla crazy Canuckistanians (ain't they all ?) offer a heretofore unthought-of warning apropos to our current peanut butter crisis. C...

Here's a few from The Rude Pundit , whom everybody should read every day. On Repug obstructionism and bipartisanship : Oh, Obama tried. ...

Mark Morford , links at site. Politicians? Lawyers? Not anymore. Time to loathe the *real* American monsters Call it the backlash against th...

No Grand Turk yesterday due to weather. Pulled into Puerto Rico this morning but we're not going ashore. Taking advantage to an empty...

TPR Former Halliburton subsidiary, Kellogg Brown & Root (KBR), will pay the federal government $402 million to settle a decade-long crim...

It's a beautiful day here in California, brilliant sunshine, a foot of new-fallen snow and just under 1°F. We're off over the mounta...

Ironic Times PAKISTAN RELEASES A.Q. KHAN FROM HOUSE ARREST Man considered world's biggest nuclear proliferator says he “can't wait t...

Mary MacElveen This may be the most controversial column I have ever written depending upon your views concerning the use of marijuana. Pre...

Balloon Juice I really don’t understand how bipartisanship is ever going to work when one of the parties is insane. Imagine trying to negoti...

You know... Doing the Same Thing Over, and Over, and Over, Over, and Over, and Over (and Over) Again, Expecting Different Results!

Well, Fixer might have had the Pointer Sisters running through his head, their tune he says, yeah, right, while he was watching all the cr...