Alternate Brain

Still doing stupid detail shit on the house that's major league time-consuming. We also booked our 20th Anniversary cruise for next y...

Hang on to yer hat! Eclectic California flatpicker Dan Crary performs a medley comprised of "Fishing Creek Blues," "The Blac...

Emmylou Harris & Guy Clark with Los Lobos ~ I Don't Love You Much Do I Thanks to 1000Magicians (UK).

A song of true love. Sigh. The song ends a little abruptly. I guess love does too sometimes... Jim's recent trip to Hells Canyon David A...

In case you missed this, here it is. Shorter: First, the Bush White House, meaning Dick, has his shysters build a flimsy box within which to...

Athenae : I don't get this idea that if Pelosi knew about torture it makes torture okay. It doesn't. It just makes Pelosi suck ... A...

I've been thinking along these same lines the last coupla days and The Rude Pundit , obviously a regular reader of my mind, expounds: Th...

USA Today PHOENIX (AP) — A 60-year-old reservist from Arizona has become the oldest Army soldier killed in combat in Iraq. Better do some PT...

Glenn Greenwald in Salon on the nomination of Dawn Johnsen to OLC. Links at site: One of the best things Barack Obama has done since bein...

THE ENTIRE TORTURE PROGRAM WAS DESIGNED TO OBTAIN FALSE CONFESSIONS SO THEY COULD LIE US INTO THEIR GODDAM WAR. - Gordon , April 23, 2009 Th...

It'd have been nice, during this tumultuous time for the auto industry, if you'd have thought about your parts supply chain before e...

That'll " inflame anti-American sentiment ": ... We're currently occupying two Muslim countries. We're killing civili...

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I got this from my old school pal Steve, a retired Master Chief who still knows how to get a dig in: [Four retired Chiefs are walking down a...

When you retire and go on Social Security, you get all kinds of interesting offers. Mrs. G got one yesterday. Her reply*: Dear The Scooter S...

From the Murdoch Street Journal Kerlikowske Says Analogy Is Counterproductive; Shift Aligns With Administration Preference for Treatment Ove...

Thanks to heathr456 . Update: More at Kos .

As with everything they do, the Rethugs and their "base" (Big Insurance, Big Pharma) are trying to scare you out of demanding seri...

Just as we've shitted up our planet, we've also turned the space around it into a junkyard. How long before we can't launch an...

My ass puckers every time the Mrs. flies in and out of little podunk airports (too often for my liking, thank you) on business: The lack of...