Alternate Brain

Mostly Willie, but pretty new. From the 2013 Legacy / Sony Legacy album, To All the Girls Thanks to goodelady .

After 33 years of rightward and downward slide, it's about fuckin' time. E.J. Dionne . The center of gravity in American politics ...

Forward Progressives Last night when discussing Stan and some of what I refer to as his asinine political beliefs, it occurred to me—Stan ...

Who knew Ken Cuccinelli had a secret plan to force oust Bob McDonnell? WATCH The Rachel Maddow Show explain . They promised it's there...

If it's Wednesday it must be Morford on crass Christmas commercialism and Dia de los Muertos. I've been getting Christmas catalogs ...

TBogg via Raw Story . When we last checked in on la famiglia Cheney , family patriarch and Undead Thing Dick Cheney was hitting the gasba...

From The Guardian via Raw Story . So, it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the first Transportation Security Administration (TSA) agent to...

Food stamp cuts are ideological, not fiscal: Republicans make the poor pay to balance the budget “The capitalists can always buy themselves...

A tip o' the Brain to Being Liberal .

Ironic Times Republicans Outraged That Obamacare Is Destroying America And isn't rolling out smoothly enough. Rand Paul Accused of P...

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...

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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...