Alternate Brain

Published on Mar 1, 2013 Singers Emmylou Harris and Rodney Crowell perform "Chase the Feeling" from their new album, "Old Ye...

Heh. Thank you, Old Fart , for making this so easy! And I heartily concur that drug testing for people taking our tax money, in this case ...

LATimes U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is alleged to be one of the great intellects of conservative jurisprudence, but his com...

In case you missed this, you MUST see it! In this exclusive, unedited interview, Rachel Maddow shares her in-person observations of the Su...

CPAC is the 'Star Wars Bar Scene of the Conservative Movement' Heh. No shit!

Dana Milbank For a quarter-century, Antonin Scalia has been the reigning bully of the Supreme Court, but finally a couple of justices are ...

A fun and not too off the mark look at Senator Ted "Tailgunner Joe's Ghost" Cruz at Political Garbage Chute . Shit, Cruz even ...

I think I'm getting jaded over politics in my old age. Or something. Anyway, I'm not finding much to be outraged about today. Perhap...

I'm still suffering from truck lag from driving home from the coast yesterday so I'll probably take the easy way out today with ligh...

Ironic Times Supreme Court to Revisit Campaign Finance Limits Why, it will ponder, can't one person, like ExxonMobil, give as much mo...

Texas bans shooting immigrants from helicopters How sporting of them. Yeesh.

" Long Black Veil " is a dark tune originally recorded by Lefty Frizzell in 1959. Published on Sep 22, 2012 Not sure where an...

We're going out to the coast for a few days so blogging will be light to neglible. See yas. And thanks to Crooks and Liars for linkin...

Wired . Links at site. Senate Minority Leader Fooled by Report in Military Version of The Onion Meet The Duffel Blog ( Also on Facebook ...

If it's Wednesday it must be Morford making a few observations you don't want to moss. And I am, clearly, far from alone. Witness...

Apropos of absolutely nothing except some controversy about 40 miles east of me, I thought you might like to see a short video of the Comsto...

Godwin observed that, given enough time, in any online discussion—regardless of topic or scope—someone inevitably makes a comparison to Hit...

Ironic Times GOP Sen. Mitch McConnell: Legalize Hemp And arrest anyone caught smoking it. Just give them some aspirin. Colorado Gov. Dr...

‘Lincoln’ inspires Mississippi to finally ratify amendment abolishing slavery Actually, they ratified it in 1995 but never bothered to tell...

Goblinbooks is on fire today! Do not miss this! Folks, I'm not coming. I don't know how you're going to pick the new guy. I...