Alternate Brain

I'm being lazy. Fuck everything until at least Tuesday.

We're going out to the coast for a few days for Mrs. G's 50 year High School reunion. Blogging will be light to bupkis, but I'l...

Maddow to Iraq War architects on TV: ‘Your opinion is no longer required on matters of war and peace’ Word. Note to Rummie: You better kee...

If We Stay Out of Syria, Assad Has Bush to Thank No shit.

Tag line from a piece by Charles P. Pierce on the Syria hearings: John Boehner has no power. John McCain has no power. Only the Stupid ha...

REPUBLICANS OFFER SYRIA STRATEGY: “WE MUST DEFUND OBAMACARE” Why do I have no trouble believing that?

If it's Wednesday it must be Morford , back from Burning Man with 92 photos. Keep in mind, this gallery is but a tiny sample, a glimp...

David Stockman Next week Congress can do far more than stop a feckless Tomahawk barrage on a small country that is already a graveyard of ...

Yes, Obamacare is going to be a disaster. To all the usual suspects' bottom lines. Raw Story Georgia governor gets paid through secr...

Today is the 9th anniversary of my tour at the Brain. Fixer started it on 4 July 2004. Lotta water under the bridge. I came along a little l...

Ironic Times PUBLIC DOESN'T SUPPORT STRIKE ON SYRIA Supports strike on Time Warner Cable. Heh. Revealed: NYPD Has Secret Spy Cab D...

Excellent article at Salon . Now, in 2013, we have the politics that 50 years of this process have created. The Democratic Party has fewer...

Emmylou gets more of an assist on this one. That's OK. I've been a Linda fan even longer. Thanks to Larry Privat .

Robert Reich A few days ago I had breakfast with a man who had been one of my mentors in college, who participated in the struggle for civ...

This is specific to North Carolina but applies across the U.S. Asheville Citizen-Times What we’ve been witnessing at the General Assembl...

The Daily Beast Adelson’s casino company, Las Vegas Sands Corp., cut its losses this week when it agreed to pay $47 million to the U.S. go...

If it's Wednesday it must be Morford on climate change. Good news is, climate change is an equal opportunity offender: you will be af...

If I were Emperor (EOTUS) and be glad I'm not, and it was up to me to retaliate against Syria, here's what I would do: The chemica...

From El Rude-o on the CIA's admission that the U.S. was complicit in Saddam's use of chemical weapons. We are a nation that has b...

Dis is jus' too good! Via my Facebook and actual frien' Jeff Apaka. Dis, da Hawai`i Pidgin New Testament (Da Jesus Book) wit 39% ...