Dowbrigade

"Don’t you think Jerry Falwell reminds you a lot more of the Pharisees
than he does of the teachings of Jesus? And don’t you think this campaign
ought to be about evicting the money changers from the [...]

The Dowbrigade thought he was tracking the current Democratic campaign
pretty closely, but a
quiz in today’s NY Times reveals how inadequate
our best efforts were. Obviously, we need to spend at least a [...]

McLEAN,
Va., Dec. 27 (AP) When the Central Intelligence Agency’s gadget makers
invented
a listening device for the Asian jungles, they disguised it so the enemy
would [...]

MINNEAPOLIS
(AP) – A naked man got stuck in the chimney of a bookstore early Christmas
morning. Don’t worry, it wasn’t Santa Claus.
The 34-year-old man was treated Thursday for bruises and abrasions at Hennepin
[...]

The
deck of playing cards has become the 21st century version of wanted
posters, trading cards or commemorative dinner plates. The Dowbrigade
still remembers the first deck of non-standard playing cards he ever
[...]

BAM,
Iran (Reuters) – A pre-dawn earthquake razed much of the ancient Silk
Road city of Bam in Iran on Friday, killing more than 20,000 people and
injuring tens of thousands more, government officials [...]

For
years the Dowbrigade has been using the Harper’s Index with his advanced
ESL students.  The Harpers Index is a monthly list of surprising
or unexpected or counterintuitive statistical
[...]

Cool little quiz over at quizilla.com, called "What kind of post-modernist
are you?" I’m not really sure what a post-modernist is, except that I
think it has something to do with deconstructionism.
Thanks to Ryan
Overbey for the [...]

Gadzooks! Jay McCarthy has discovered Ayn Rand! Also notable as a sweet application of outline-based, category-rich blogging.
From Make Out City

The holiday spirit was dampened and Christmas dinner ruined at Buckingham Palace by a combination dog fignt / cat fight involving The Queen of England, her daughter Princess Anne, a bull terrier named Dottie and the Queen’s favorite Corgi, name of Pharos. Note the gratuitous use of Latin. American papers should do more of [...]

As
the top prize gets closer and closer, The Remaking of Howard Dean is
reaching a fevered pitch. What with Michael Jackson embracing the Nation
of Islam, hearing that Dean is embracing his Christian [...]

In this
exclusive photo by Dave Winer, Sen. Lieberman warily eyes the Dowbrigade,
as your intrepid reporter, pen in one hand and beer in the other, grills
him [...]