Alternate Brain

This is something kinda different and way cool, I think. I ran across a whole buncha audio-only Bonnie Raitt tunes while I was cruisin' ...

Emmylou Harris ~ Waltz Across Texas Thanks to arthurfromholland , Netherlands.

Mr. Aravosis : ... I can't get married, but this church can systematically enable the rape of children in country after country, decade ...

Here in NY, the big tradition is watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. D-cap lives in the city and took pics. Not the same para...

Me and my buddies used to crash wedding receptions when we were young and broke and wanted to party. When one of them worried we might get ...

I didn't make but Ol' Fez thinks surely will be : ... Just imagine the crazy blackboard etchings (and deals!) that Glenn Beck will b...

Digby on the banksters: ... The idea that in a country of 300 million people the only ones who are qualified to run these big failed and ne...

From us here at the Brain (and our families) to you and yours. We've got a lot to be thankful for and we hope you do too, and don't...

The Battle of the Chosin Reservoir , or 长津湖战役 depending on your point of view, began 59 years ago today, give or take a day. Since the Brain...

Dana Peroxide : "We did not have a terrorist attack on our country during President Bush's term" I guess 3000 of my friends an...

We're heading out for the Central Coast today. I'll leave ya with a good reading list: Why Afghans Dig Empire Graveyards Afghanistan...

19 years ago today, I married the woman who is my best friend and soulmate. Proposing to her was the best decision I ever made. There is n...

Comrade Misfit points out that while VTOL aircraft are useful (some of them), nobody thought about what to do when they're based on shi...

Sometimes, I can roll through my dead-tree copy of Time in five minutes. Occasionally, it takes two hours. Sometimes there's stuff good...

Good article in Time magazine. PTSD wasn't recognized as an illness until the 1980s, but it has been around for as long as men have bee...

The Nation talks about a show I watched last Friday evening of LBJ's taped phone conversations and Bill Moyers' commentary. Highly ...

Ironic Times Most GOP Voters Think ACORN Stole Election Exactly as predicted in Revelations. Rumor: Palin Already Making Plans for Her Admin...

Cookie Jill : why is it.... that the folks debating healthcare on the hill...all have health insurance and access to doctors? For the same r...

Digby and Tristero have been looking at events of 45 years ago and realize (what many of us who were alive through the Vietnam years do) we...

Just watching Tottenham hand Wigan their ass. Been a busy guy this weekend getting the Mrs.' office done before I got a house full o...