Dowbrigade

As a laid-back proponent of the Blogger ethos it would be way uncool to get hung up on site statistics, but I confess to occasionally checking traffic to the Dowbrigade site. I have noticed that at regular, but otherwise inexplicable times, like 3 am Monday mornings, there will be a sudden spike in traffic, and [...]

ROME (Reuters) – A church in central Italy
may need reconsecrating after police discovered it had been the location
for a pornographic film, Italian media has reported.
[...]

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva poses with a guitar as
he stands with Yves Passarel (L) singer from one of Brazil’s best known
rock groups, Capital Inicial. Will he jam with Kerry? Bill on Sax?

RAINY weather influences road deaths in a far more complicated
way than previously thought. Rain does not increase the number of deaths
in crashes, provided it rained the previous day. But a heavy shower after
[...]

Plans continue to open the California Recall Election to
voters from around the world, on the theory that we all have a stake in
what happens in California and are all effected by the decisions [...]

I admit that the first time I saw this building
rising out of a dirt mine in the industrial underbelly of Cambridge,
behind sleazy Central Square and across the tracks from the main [...]