Alternate Brain

I was just over at YouTube marveling at the plethora of Mary McCaslin songs that has magically appeared lately, thank you garrufat . Anyway,...

With 'regular' Americans. Nice to see they have the same problems we do: ... Only 25% to 30% of ex-Bush officials seeking full-tim...

Got this by e-mail from my old school pal Steve: Dear Walter, I hope you can help me here. The other day, I set off for work leaving my h...

Sort of "If you got the money, honey, I got the time" in Spanglish. My favorite line is Bring all of your papers I'll supply a...

Special Representative Richard Holbrooke is back from Clusterfuckistan for a few days and appeared last night with Charlie Rose for 40 min...

Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Willie Nelson, Townes Van Zandt Thank you, GainControlAgain .

Let's just say these Jarheads don't work for the State Dept. Heh. They make an interesting discovery at about 4:50. Did I act like t...

Mark Morford with today's 'must read'. Translation: Money's tight, baby. City's in trouble. State's deep in the hol...

MoDo I was dubious about Will Ferrell doing his Bush impersonation one more time on Broadway. As we lurch through the disasters bequeathed ...

This may be tinfoil hat shit. Then again, it may not. Whatever, it bears bringing up once in a while. Professor Smartass , links to all his ...

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29 years ago today, I raised my right hand and swore to "defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic." Off t...

Can we sell it to Canada ? Would they want it?

Go see how the cartoon should have looked . And this .

Since last Friday, I have cleared my driveway of snow 6 days in a row. I am thinking of marrying my goddam driveway so I won't have to b...

The Political Carnival on RNC Chairman Steele. References also to the M*A*S*H theme song. Heh. If going beyond cutting-edge means political...

You all know which one. All I'll say is they can make up any excuse they want, but I grew up in a time where black folks were regularly...

We already had an actor in the White House.

America is a conservative nation ! Waaahhhhhhh!!!! Seems like the maiden voyage of Titanic was an unqualified success compared to the Repu...

To go down the road of giving the automakers money : DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp said on Tuesday it could need a total of up to ...