Dowbrigade

U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Cesar Castro of the 1st Battalion, 22nd Infantry Regiment
with the 4th Infantry Division holds a cut-out of Elvis Presley at the
hole from where the US military captured ex-Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein
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Once
again, a petite woman has beaten the field in an open division eating
contest, this time chicken wings. In the current case,
the finalists were Sonya ‘Black Widow’ Thomas, a 98-pounder who began
[…]

Despite the setbacks to Howard Dean’s first-of-a-kind Internet operation, the current discussion around the Blogosphere seems to be centered on when and where the next major impact point will be, and not whether the Internet will be an important player from this point on in the American political panorama. We take this as a good […]

WEST GARDINER, Maine - Sports fans wearing tattered jerseys
or ragged baseball caps to support a team is commonplace. But it’s only
the devout fans who see a team through victory and defeat. Literally.
Jayme Quinn, […]

While
no one can argue with the wisdom contained on these cute shirts, the
Dowbrigade can clearly see why they should be pulled from store shelves
just as fast as they can be rounded […]

An interesting meeting last night of the Thursday night Bloggers crew
at the Berkman.  We noodled around for a while fishing for a
topic, and ended up back at the roots of the group: support for newbies
and discussions of the impact and future of Blogging on “Internet and
Society”, which after all is the Purview of the Berkman […]

Summer 1965, was long, hot and incendiary, as a string
of political assassinations and the war in Vietnam set off flash point
riots in black ghettos across America.  Including Rochester, New
York, where the […]

A
decomposing sperm whale has exploded while being transported through
a Taiwan city, splattering cars and shops with blood and blubber.
The 50-ton carcass was being taken through Tainan City, on its way to a
[…]

Howard
Dean without Joe
Trippi and the Internet Strategy is just another angry
little man too close to the edge, and is yesterday’s news as a political
[…]

Police fear ‘cannabis confusion’
The downgrading of cannabis on Thursday will lead to a rise in the number of
drug addicts and criminals, police officers’ leaders have warned.
The Police Federation of England and Wales said many people were confused and
believed the drug was now legal.
Cannabis has been […]

“One of the penalties for being too smart to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
Plato