Dowbrigade

What
a gorgeous day for a protest! I can picture it now….the human sea of
righteous indignation, the thin blue line of the scared and secretly
sympathetic forces of State Security.  My eyes are [...]

Don’t you hate people who have a quotation ready for
any situation or emotion to make themselves sound sophisticated, intelligent
and erudite? I
have tried
to accumulate [...]

Finally
– Someone cares enough to violate the intellectual property rights of
people who do what I do for a living – lecture to BU students!
It’s amazing how finding yourself on the other side of the bar can affect
[...]

So just
two weeks ago, we all get an email from the Boston University Chancellor’s
office, announcing that the university has declared November 17th an
Official University Holiday, all classes cancelled, all offices closed,
[...]

from
the Boston Globe

Its retirement
never even merited a notice on the drive-through menu, much less a
memorial service with Homer Simpson-esque eulogies. But over the [...]

Not your average women

An
interesting post from Robert Koehler, and American ex-pat living and
teaching in South Korea, and author of the Marmot’s
Hole, an excellent read.
"Now, for those of you who might not know, I managed [...]

Ryan Overbey has put together a nice site for the upcoming Buddhist Studies Graduate Student Conference at Harvard in April.
“The Buddhist Studies Graduate Student Conference, inaugurated by Harvard students in 1997, has become an important annual forum for interdisciplinary exchange within the field of Buddhist Studies.”

Ecuador,
the Dowbrigade’s favorite country in South America, a land of unparalleded
natural beauty and beautiful women (including Mrs. Dowbrigade), is also
a founding member of OPEC. For years, most of their oil was [...]