Alternate Brain

An old favorite. Thanks to AlexPap48 .

Please watch this beautifully animated, and heart felt, short film about a little girl who visits the land of the dead, where she learns the...

A tip o' the Brain to Crooks and Liars on Facebook.

Paul Krugman So what’s this all about? One reason, the sociologist Daniel Little suggested in a recent essay, is market ideology: If the m...

A tip o' the Brain to Being Liberal .

Paul Krugman And Republicans still dream of dismantling Medicare as we know it, instead giving seniors vouchers to buy private insurance. ...

Will Durst on the Obamacare rollout mess hearings. The sight of these grandfatherly types who couldn't tell a glitch from a Sneetch p...

From Kos in toto . The teabagger core argument: Takers, makers and the violent end of democracy Yeah, this is a mid-week nutpick , but i...

Paul Krugman Lots of commentators have been referencing a report from Democracy Corps about focus-group meetings with Republicans, and wit...

Britney Spears's Music Is Used to Fight Off Somali Pirates (Stop Laughing) “I’d imagine using Justin Bieber would be against the Geneva...

ProPublica . Much more and many links at site Two dark money groups linked to conservative billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch hav...

Ironic Times Iran Removes Anti-American Posters as Western Nuke Talks Loom “Death to Satan” replaced by “Welcome Satan.” 7-Eleven Begins...

This is a little different! Thanks to ajack2boys .

via Occupy Democrats . In what is quite possibly the most powerful, insightful, and concise answer to the age-old question of why poor whi...

Democrat Blasts GOP’s Obamacare Hearing: ‘I Will Not Yield To This Monkey Court’ And a phrase is coined!

If it's Wednesday it must be Morford on corporate scientific engineering of addiction. Then came a flawless little orgasm of a headli...

Let the Dysfunctional Plantation-Based Red States Secede I've got no problem with this. If we learned anything from last time, it's...

HuffPo A senior official from former President George W. Bush's administration is quoted in “Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the Whit...

From Red To Blue — Why the House Will Absolutely Change Hands Next Year I don't really much care why as long as it does.

Ironic Times Violin Played by Titanic's Bandleader as Ship Went Down Auctioned Off Winning bid made by Ted Cruz. Fitting - the fiddle...