Dowbrigade

As part of the continuing attempt to stage the most pointlessly outrageous
Flash Mob yet, the internet is abuzz with rumors that the enigmatic "Flash
Mob Bill" is planning his final Mob for the McMurdo Research Station
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The difficulties of policing an area the size of Iraq
are increasingly appearant. Three days after U.S.
troops and engineers reopened a major Iraqi
oil
pipeline
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The richest shipwreck in history has been sitting beneath
a half mile of ocean for 300 years. Greg Stemm is sending a robot down
to get it.
In 1694, an 80-gun British warship [...]

Jose Concepcion Benzor Espinosa was dwelling in darkness long before he was committed to the Federal Medical Center at Devens for what should have been a routine psychological evaluation. Then, seven weeks after entering the prison hospital, Benzor’s bleak world plunged into total blackness.
On July 17, Benzor pulled out both of his eyeballs with his [...]

I confess to being a news addict.  For the past 30 years if I
didn’t start the day with coffee and the New York Times, it was like
my brain wouldn’t boot up.  When traveling or living abroad I was
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A "Chiste" Among "Compadres"
Cuban president Fidel Castro reportedly startled his Venezuelan counterpart,
Hugo Chavez, with a practical joke when they met yesterday in Paraguay.
He persuaded a Paraguayan MP to warn Chavez to watch out for an ambush
and then jumped out at [...]

Marijuana should be removed from the medical and criminal control systems. It should be legalized for adults for all uses.
Dr. Lester Grinspoon, an emeritus professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, in a Boston Globe editorial.

 
Casinos have long been waging a losing battle against brainiac
cheaters known as "card counters".  Now a new program named
Mindplay MP21, which works by placing a set of 14 digital cameras around
the table which remember
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Although it’s hard to feel sorry for lawyers as a class, years of
being the butt of bad shark jokes seem to be taking a toll.  A front
page article in today’s Boston Globe highlights a number of local [...]

Honest, honey, I only had one glass of wine!
I admit, I
like big glasses.  In
the morning I take my coffee in a mug the size of a fruitbowl, and when
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More of the uncut shit straight from the source, straight from Iraq:
“The sounds of shots being fired should begin to be heard sporadically around the city, as the cover of darkness provides refuge for those few would be attackers. Most of the city is quiet, tired from a long day of struggling to make ends [...]