Dowbrigade

Hafta get the car inspected tomorrow. Major bummer. For starters, the damn thing is held together with coat hangers and duct tape, has two Telly Savalas tires and one with a slow leak, one wheel whose tie-rods are shot, according to the last mechanic who had it up on a lift, and is sure [...]

The James Bond car, the Aston Martin DB5, has been voted
the coolest car of all time in a list compiled
by Top Gear magazine. The DB5 featured in the 1960s’ Bond film Goldfinger.
from Ananova

Burning Man Put Out by Suits
Melding what’s left of the counter-culture to an X-Files
aestetic, the Burning Man festival has been attracting left-coast pyromaniacs
since the 1980’s. Located in Black Rock Desert, Nevada (Nevada’s fourth
[...]

Despite the central role of the armed forces in Bush’s vision of America’s relations with the world, Robert Schlesinger writes in the Boston Globe that Secretary of Defense Donald Rusmsfeld is locked in conflict with one particular branch – the Army – perhaps not surprising for a Navy man.
The areas of disagreement range from the [...]

MAN DRILLS THROUGH SKULL
A Californian man is lucky to be alive after an
accident on a construction site.
Ron Hunt was drilling into a wall when the ladder he was standing
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A rather remarkable little story from Tom Paine, via Instapundit.
“It’s all done with now though, Granddad. War’s over. It’s been over a while now.”
“Yes, and thank God for that. Actually, you should thank me. I reckon it was people like me who voted Condoleeza Rice into the White House and sent the Hildebeast back to [...]