Alternate Brain

Wanna know why we're "broke"? A whole buncha con men like this saw the Chimp and his minions as easy marks : WASHINGTON — For...

Must be some reason I'm hung up on this "colder weather" theme... Thanks to zacbrownband . Twofer! This one'll warm ya up!...

It is the weekend. After four days of trying to find places to put snow, I'm exultant over the prospect of a day off from survival diggi...

Stays on top today and I heartily concur with the change of masthead art for the duration of the current emergency as well. United we stand....

Click to emhugen ...one day I'm gonna fly out there and surprise Gordon and Mrs. G. ... In the summer - Fixer at this post . Oh, poo on ...

Your Saturday afternoon read : ... That's the way it's supposed to work. But a veritable mountain of evidence indicates that when i...

Boeing learns a lesson : Outsourcing, as anyone who's ever had to manage a project staffed in another country will tell you, is rife wit...

I've always liked this song, originally from The Band . Sheryl Crow, Levon Helm, Emmylou Harris - "Evangeline" (Live, 1995) Th...

Mrs. G had the idea to go to the grocery store early today to beat the hordes of locusts skiers who will no doubt be here (if they can get ...

Walker's claims of a "budget crisis" as cover for stripping away citizens' rights are a very WMD-like lie to cover up a Re...

El Rude-o weighs in: You see, Walkie-baby, what's going on in your state right now is that you finally broke the camel's back. No, ...

In case you missed it, you MUST, please but MUST, watch this. Right now and for the foreseeable future, there is one party with cubic money...

I'm not the only one : ... Desperately needed now, if Constitutional Democracy, as defined by the Preamble to that great document (see m...

It's union-busting , period: Wisconsin's new Republican governor has framed his assault on public worker's collective bargaining...

Eventually see the light. I've been reading Balloon Juice for years, though Cole and his bunch were pretty conservative in the beginni...

The English have been on an austerity kick like we have, for probably the same reasons, though they've been promising people they wouldn...

Re: My earlier post . Regulars here know I'm an unabashed, unrepentant beer snob. My regular beer is Newcastle Brown Ale . The best be...

No need to comment [ check out the pic at the link - F ]: There has been a dramatic development in Wisconsin. All 14 Democrats in the state...

John Cole ( in toto ) via Da Beez : I’ve said this before, and I will say it again. Unless your proposal includes a substantial increase in ...

Fixer's doing such a beautiful job today that I'm gonna go edit me some video. Thanks, F-Man. I wuz wonderin' how I was gonna sq...