Alternate Brain

I used to just think of this as kind of an oddball novelty tune. Now I think of it as life under Repug rule... Autoharp virtuoso and all aro...

Ted Koppel The goal of any organized terrorist attack is to goad a vastly more powerful enemy into an excessive response. And over the past ...

Go read this one by William Rivers Pitt . Nine years, four national elections, two wars and two presidents since that day, and where are we ...

I love this tune: Carlos Santana and Macy Gray - Amore(Sexo)

"Stuck in Lodi" Emmylou on the John Fogarty song - from 1992 Sam Bush on mandolin. Emmylou Harris ~ Lodi Thanks to 1000Magicians ,...

*Title links here . Lawrence O'Donnell said yesterday that the whole cult leader/Qur'an burning deal is turning into South Park (no...

And up against the wall . "Want a blindfold, grandpa? Cigarette?" I know the conservatives want to cut "entitlements" ...

I fuckin' love this ! US Marines Thursday rescued a German-owned ship seized by pirates in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia after hijackers...

Obama: Quran burning ‘a recruitment bonanza’ for al Qaeda It's a big improvement that al Qaeda's main recruitment center in the U.S....

If you are still interested in the perfect storm of incompetence that went into the Iraq fuckuo and what may lie ahead, go see last night...

Vijay Prashad tamps our politics into a nice neat brick in a piece entitled " White Fright ". The far Right is making a bid to use...

Pensito Review Local (in my neck of the woods anyway) legend Stetson Kennedy, best known for his ground-breaking journalism exposing Ku Klux...

Why do I have to know about this little troll named Snooki? Good God, with all the news coverage of her, you'd think she cured cancer ...

To George Bush when he goes somewhere? Sounds like Blair can't run away from his own history. First he was pelted with eggs and shoes i...

Every year. Being the avid cruisers the Mrs. and I are (we frequent Holland America Line), the odds are not in our favor that we'll end ...

We didn't know this was coming: ... They said that we just needed to pass this so we could get something better down the road. Perhaps ...

El Rude-o . Go read. The First Amendment of the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution allows one, nay, encourages one to be a total fuckin...

As you folks know, I'm all sloppy about the new dogs coming next week. I showed ya pictures of Choo-Choo the other day ( here and here...

Fred Kaplan in Slate : Republicans are usually eager to trumpet their support for the troops and the war against terror. So why aren't ...

If it's Wednesday, it must be Morford . Comedic horrors thrive, moronism seems to inbreed and fester, and most of it manifests under the...