Dowbrigade

JERUSALEM
- Psychic Uri Geller defended his friend Michael Jackson (together, above) on Sunday,
saying the pop singer denied under hypnosis three years ago that he had
sexually abused children.
Geller, best known for his [...]

The Dowbrigade
loves
his aggregator. It is his constant companion, his window on not
only the Blogosphere, but on much of what goes on in the world outside
[...]

Living
closer to the North Pole than to any city, factory, or farm, the Inuit
appear unscathed by any industrial-age ills. They live much as their
ancestors did, relying on foods harvested from the [...]

STOCKHOLM
(AFP) - A spat between Israel and Sweden over a controversial Stockholm
art exhibit showing a Palestinian suicide bomber turned into a full-scale
diplomatic row when Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
[...]

As
predicted in this
space yesterday, the firestorm of protest over the
banning of head scarves from French public schools is spreading around
the world, especially in [...]

Okay,
dear readers, this is a serious post.  It concerns a serious subject,
and one which has been in the news lately in a number of contexts - child
abuse. 
Child abuse is a [...]

As promised here last month, this is the continuation and conclusion of the story of how the Dowbrigade and his son were kidnapped in the northern Peruvian desert 14 years ago this week. Here is a sample:
“Those Senderistas were know for deadly little bits of political theater like rolling into an isolated mountain village at [...]