Alternate Brain

Tom Russell is one of my favorite singer-songwriters. He writes about shit I can relate to. I'm not 100% certain, but I think his accom...

Famous old-time country gospel singer Robert Plant lets one fly! Robert Plant & The Band Of Joy (July 30, 2010) at Ruth Eckerd Hall in ...

Seeing as how the Brain is a bicoastal effort from remarkably similar yet remarkably diverse rocket scientists in New York and California, I...

Than Secaucus Fats. I can't listen to this whiny kid (he's been all over the news here) who wants to be governor of New Jersey any...

About Islamic fundamentalists (and you know how I feel about fundamentalist religionists of any stripe), you don't see them going out an...

Emmylou Harris performs "Darlin' Kate" live at the Driskill Hotel, Austin, Texas on March 18, 2011. For more videos, visit npr...

Fixer inspires me sometimes. This vid ain't very good but you get the idea. Happened 10 minutes ago. The deck railing is 10 feet off th...

And not the good way. You all know about my garden hijinks lately. Well, come Wednesday, I'll be building one of these: Pic from here ...

When I turned 65 I started getting all kinds of ads for old people shit, including the little electric scooters. Just as an aside, a lot of ...

The Rude Pundit follows up on Fixer's post : Let's add one more piece to this puzzle. Expressing what must be the angst felt by a g...

Weiner : ‘Who is Boehner fooling? What am I, like, Anthony Waynor?’ Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) brought the house down last night at the Cong...

Arianna: The Huffington Post is not a ‘lefty’ publication anymore It's not on my reading list any more either. Ya still got a nice rack ...

Here's a coupla ¶ from Glenn Greenwald on Richie Rich's Pity Party. For billionaires to see themselves as the True Victims, to comp...

This is at Talk To Action . While most eyes were on the Conservative Principles Political Action Committee conference in Iowa on Saturday, m...

Being I've operated with both of these aircraft, one has to wonder how uninvolved we're actually becoming: ... But unlike the attac...

Of the Cattle Dog coin. Remember about a month an a half ago, when I posted a vid of my little idiots dogs roughhousing while I was trying...

We've been dumbed down to the lowest common denominator but shouldn't an elected representative know a little about geography ? The...

You see it all the time. Women fake rape to get abortions. Christ ...

The political discourse in America in the beginning of the 21st Century. The Rude One : ... Something's seriously fucked beyond fucked ...

See, this is what gives political adversaries ammo: ... I'm not sure that this kind of gimmickry doesn't diminish the seriousness o...