Alternate Brain

Going today to ride the Hard Rock Trial put on by SactoPITS . First time out this season, may produce comical results. Saturday is always ...

Did Bachmann "Win" the GOP Debate by Not Spewing Vomit as Her Head Twisted Around? That guy must not have been watching. She spews...

Gay and lesbian friends. I expect invitations . Heh ... ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- At New York City's Stonewall Inn, the Greenwich Village p...

Emmylou Harris, Born To Run, Admiralspalast, Berlin, 08.06.2011 Emmylou Harris in Berlin, ein Superereignis. I don't know what 'Supe...

From YubaNet . I'll buy the gas!! Road to Ruin

There were two very interesting segments on Charlie Rose last night. Go see, if these topics interest you. They did me. One was on the arre...

Locking up our fellow citizens is good for the economy. We're not buying as much stuff as we should because we're being careful with...

Good article in Salon by Gene Lyons : "Defending the American Dream," they call it. Granted, it's hard to feel sorry for gull...

William Rivers Pitt : For the sake of full disclosure, I will tell you that I do not like Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. In my opini...

Professor Myers writes a beautiful, open letter to a little girl: ... Another problem is that if we can only trust what we have seen with o...

Like Mitt Romney , Governor Goodhair of Texas only has a sense of humor if it's politically expedient. Also, like Mitt Romney, he can...

Somebody's growing a set : All I can say is it's about time some of the Democrats are calling out Republicans for something that...

Colorado To End Medicaid Coverage Of Circumcision Tamron Hall of MSNBC just said MediCARE coverage of circumcision had been eliminated! Wh...

Going through old family photos is a trip! I have no idea when or where this photo was taken. Coulda been when my dad was in the Indian Serv...

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Fixer's other garden Raw Story Reps. Barney Frank (D-MA) and Ron Paul (R-TX) will introduce legislation on Thursday to the U.S. House o...

GOP magic trick: Making George W. Bush vanish The way to do that is just hide him. Behind steel bars until his bones turn to dust.

Fareed Zakaria hits the nail right on the head in "How Today's Conservatism Lost Touch with Reality": [...] We need more mark...

Buy a half-gallon of sugar water at KFC, give a dollar to diabetes research Say WHAT?!!

We can heap on the brown people all we want, but the truth of the matter is Osama bin Laden could have been hiding out here for all we knew...