Alternate Brain

I had to look at dozens of these to find just the right one and it was hard to pick just one. It's a damn dirty job, I tells ya, but som...

Sandy Banks nails my feelings toward New Year's Eve and the new year to the wall: I figured I would write this week about the holiday...

New Orleans: Get out of FEMA trailers or pay $500/day If the few people remaining in those trailers had that kind of money they'd have b...

Cheri DelBrocco at Memphis Flyer So let's make with the bubbly already; 2011's going to be just too weird. Now that the agenda in Wa...

From 1992 Emmylou Harris & The Chieftains ~ Nobody's Darling But Mine Thanks to 1000Magicians , UK. Happy New Year, Laurie.

The Rude Pundit Now, on New Year's Eve, rude readers provide you with laughter, tears, and genital excitement: From Paul H.: Boehner’s B...

A little light reading over what's going to start happening next week in the 112th Congress. Robert Parry Despite a few victories in the...

Happy New Year to all our readers and those we steal from. We couldn't do this without you, so follow Fixer's advice and party like...

To help you learn about whom you're dealing with . Thanks, Skippy !

If you thought Christmas was bad, New Year's is worse. Too many people who don't party like animals believe this is the day they s...

To Mr. Aravosis, he's never been on a cruise ship : We're getting older. But in the gay community, that's a relatively new pheno...

This is the first successful tryout of my new Active-i glasses w/video camera. Mrs. G saw these on her daily traipse through the minefield ...

From an extraordinary rant by our pal Bustednuckles, the Ornery Bastard : If there was ever a mortal sin that could be committed purposely, ...

From The Rude Pundit and his readers. Part 1 and Part 2 . From the terrible Supreme Court decision that started the year to the shocking g...

Robert Reich predicts: What will happen to the US economy in 2011? If you're referring to profits of big corporations and Wall Street, ...

The 2010 P.U.-litzer Prizes Smell Something Rotten? 2010 P.U.-litzer Prizes recognize the worst of U.S. journalism Many of the usual suspect...

For once, Mark Morford and I are even. Every year at this time, my friend Andy sends out a highly excitable e-mail asking about a dozen of ...

Is this woman back in my face again? AP reports that "federal authorities have opened a criminal probe of Delaware Republican Christin...

Have I been saying this ? As an American expat living in the European Union, I’ve started to see America from a different perspective. ... T...

Raw Story Political opinions are considered choices, and in Western democracies the right to choose one's opinions -- freedom of conscie...