Alternate Brain

Yesterday, me 'n Mrs. G went to a breakfast 80th birthday party for our friend Babette Haueisen at Smokey's Kitchen . Kind of an unu...

The Rude Pundit on SCOTUS' abominable decision on corporate money: That's right. In addition to sucking people dry over the interne...

Heh, sanity went out the window a decade ago: Hardball is almost unbearable today with Matthews babbling incoherently as usual and vicious...

An old favorite of mine. From Dutch TV. Emmylou on the Rodney Crowell song - Ricky Skaggs to the fore having recently replaced Rodney in The...

Click to embiggen Me 'n Mrs. G went to our friend Babbette's 80th birthday party this morning at a local eatery. That might seem a l...

Via Skippy , from Earthtimes.org : ... January 2000 to December 2009 was the warmest decade on record. Looking back to 1880, when modern sci...

When I was a kid, I loved basketball but one day, when trying out for the JV team, the coach told me "son, you're too short and too...

Me, at the Facebook thing : "Welcome to the Exxon John F. Kennedy International Airport, your gateway to the Corporate States of Americ...

The Scott Brown election in MA could be a "teachable moment" , but I don't give the Dems that much credit: Scott Brown was a g...

SCOTUS just gave away such democracy as we still have. Maybe we should just make it official and change the name from "The United State...

In keeping with our theme today, this is effin' perfect! Thanks to Slate .

He's gonna put the Repugs, conservatives, neocons, teabaggers, birthers, deathers, tenthers, racists, the religious right, staff and man...

Edwards admits paternity, Bush Sr. may be next

Here are the last two paragraphs of an excellent 'must read' in the Financial Times : So what on earth is going wrong? Where Mr Obam...

Truthout , with a tip o' the Brain to Democratic Underground . Your friends are not the suits on Wall Street, the same ones who fooled T...

Stuff , NZed Biblical citations on weapon sights used by New Zealand troops in Afghanistan are "inappropriate" and will be removed...

Krugman : ... But I have to say, I’m pretty close to giving up on Mr. Obama, who seems determined to confirm every doubt I and others ever h...

Have I said the American people have the attention span of 3 year olds? Maru : ... Jeebus Christ on a unicycle. Yeah, let’s send the Presid...

Why not? We were the people who were promised everything to get our vote in November '08. Not that we got anything; but we had the ner...

YubaNet Researchers at the University of Minnesota and Minneapolis VA Medical Center have identified a biological marker in the brains of th...