Dowbrigade

Israeli
customs officials have seized 400 Osama bin Laden dolls and 50 Saddam
Hussein dolls saying they constitute incitement. The singing and dancing
dolls, which carry toy guns, were discovered during a routine check [...]

If
there’s anything more American the celebrity sex stories, we don’t know
what it is. Sometimes it gets hard to tell if life is imitating art, or
visa versa. It took 30 years, but [...]

As
reported by the Dowbrigade back
in September, Russian ballerina Anastasia Volochkova was unceremoneously
dumped for getting "too big." Anastasia claimed that the real
reason behind her [...]

Packing
up the old Toyoto to join 36 million of my countrymen in the closest
thing our culture has to the Haj – the Pilgramage to Give Thanks.
The Dowbrigade’s Mom lives up in Maine, or rather, Down East in Maine,
[...]

 
Thailand
builds ‘world’s biggest noodle Xmas tree’

A Thai hotel has built what it claims is the biggest Christmas tree ever
made entirely out of noodles.
The
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Doctors and experts are baffled by an Indian hermit who claims not
to have eaten or drunk anything for several decades – but is still in perfect
health. Mr Prahlad Jani under surveillance in hospital.
Prahlad Jani, a holy man, [...]

A view of "Moai" statues in Ahu Akivi, on Easter Island, 4,000
km (2486 miles) west of Santiago, in this photo taken October 31, 2003.
Easter Island’s mysterious "Moai", giant head statues carved
out [...]

MADRID,
Nov 24 (Reuters) – Spain on Monday bade farewell to the world’s only
known albino gorilla, Snowflake, a national favourite who died after
a long struggle with [...]

If you like your news direct from the source, or if you at least like to position the horse’s mouth somewhere in your surround-sound stream of informational inputs, you should check out Michael Jackson’s brand new self-defense Blog. I call it a blog because it is in, yes – reverse chronological order. If you’re [...]

The
latest, typically savage "Sports" column from the eminent Dr. Hunter
S. Thompson:
Professional football is not the only pillar of Faith that is crumbling
all around us, as we stumble nervously into this new [...]

Love
could be as addictive as cocaine or speed, scientists have said.
According to Dr John Marsden, head of the National Addiction Centre at
the Maudsley Hospital in London, when you are attracted to someone your
[...]

Complete the following phrases…

As quick as
As strong as
As wise as
As weak as
As slippery as
As wily as
As dirty as
As quiet as
As fast as
As cold as

an eel
an owl
a pig
a fox
a fish
a kitten
a mouse
a bunny
a greyhound
an ox