Alternate Brain

This goes out to - well, you know...(wink) Jerry Reed ~ Lord, Mr. Ford Thanks to wifeOFcaptainchaos .

As a country music fan for fifty years, since back when it was called 'country and western' and people wouldn't ride in my car b...

Nanci, Emmylou and Iris on a song they recorded together for Nanci's Other Voices / Other Rooms Cd If you want to get a Nanci Griffith a...

Following up on Fixer's post , here's the ChiTrib on the Stewart/Cramer Vanilla Cage Death Match. With video. The crowd at Comedy C...

Here's David Frum , whom I detest but love to see in trouble, in Newsweek esplainin' why lesser wingnuts than Rushole should be in ...

You would think they'd have figured out a way to clean up the fucking mess they made around our world. If there are aliens who have com...

The 'money heads' are just as bad as the 'political heads' on TV. Athenae calls them out : You monumental dick. You still t...

I couldn't resist! Thanks, YubaNet .

Yesterday, we went to PetSmart, IHOP, Target, BedBath&Beyond, Costco, CVS, Office Depot, SaveMart, and 7-11. We don't go the 42 mile...

Sy Hersh drops a bomb : Investigative reporter Seymour Hersh dropped a bombshell on Tuesday when he told an audience at the University of Mi...

About the Beltway 'journalists' (Keith and Rachel excepted). Greenwald : ... That's the most important truth of American politi...

The lovely Avedon : I just want to say that I'm really sick of getting constant announcements that I can now buy an Obama trinket of som...

Who could have known? Sarah Palin's 18-year-old daughter Bristol has reportedly broken off her engagement with Levi Johnston, the father...

Jack via Maru : ... The country had had a bellyful of George Bush, Dick Cheney, and the rest of the messengers of darkness in Washington w...

In a nutshell. Turkana hits it on the head : ... The old adage comes into play: one doesn't make peace with one's friends, one make...

Light to none, actually. We're taking the pups for a very early Spa Day and having breakfast out, some fine dining at an exotic internat...

El Rude-o on Obama's reversal of the Dark Ages of stem cell research. First off, it's just gotta be pointed out, for no other reaso...

The Raw Story Now that the dust has just begun to settle after last week's battle royale between Republican National Committee chair Mic...

David Sirota on what to call the State Of The Nation. Recently, I've been groping for the precise word to characterize the zeitgeist of...

The fictional high-speed rail line from Disneyland to the Moonlite Bunny Ranch that I posted about last week might do Hannity some good. I ...