Alternate Brain

My life-long obsession with left-handed ukelele pickers playing delta blues has finally been fulfilled! Tell YouTube what you want, they del...

Andy Ostroy Rand's bizarre civil rights stand this week illustrates just how loony this movement is and how politically dangerous its ca...

Glen Ford The State of Arizona has very ambitious goals. It will not be satisfied simply to impose a kind of apartheid system in which Latin...

But I think the greatest thing is that I can give the President of the United States a piece of my mind (which I do several times a week) on...

It ain't terrorism if white folks do it: LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An antigovernment Ohio man who had had several run-ins with the polic...

This is from Emmylou's fabulous album Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town . It was one of very few 8-tracks I ever saw that you could leave ...

Light blogging today. I've run up against a perfect storm, perhaps literally, of Murphy's Law. A few days ago I bought a new distrib...

A good post by GP on how Social Security actually works and why "fixing it" will end up screwing us like the last "fix"...

Deacon Blues : But if Rand Paul and his ilk are the new face of the modern GOP, then let’s get this party started ...

Raw Story As oil from the massive BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico approached the US coastline, a CBS News crew was threatened by the US Coa...

Birther Queen: Obama Persecuting Me with Placenta Painting! That broad is so far beyond paranoia that she can watch her own back. Yeesh.

Fixer has made it known that he wants to retire in Paree. Is it possible he has hit on a method of financing it ?

How Bush's DOJ Killed a Criminal Probe Into BP That Threatened to Net Top Officials Why doesn't this surprise me? We've had 1½ o...

The very last thing the United States - or the world - needs is another American military clusterfuck in the Middle East over made-up bulls...

If you like to get high and eat better stuff than the contents of the local 7-11, you'll like this article in the NYTimes . Call it hau...

I've been a painting fool this morning. As you'll remember, I began the master bathroom work before we left for Bermuda. Well, th...

When they used to burn Negro churches either: On May 10th, a middle-aged man carried a can of gasoline and a pipe bomb into the Jacksonvill...

El Rude-o 2. However, the Republican Party is now owned by the Tea Party so, hey, enjoy the smell of Sarah Palin's ass. The base has bee...

Mark Morford on the passing of Ronnie James Dio , a hard rocker I never heard of: It's a little disquieting. The lions of hard rock, gu...

Will Texas change its slogan from "Don't Mess With Texas" to " Texas Blows "?