Dowbrigade

Lars-Erik Fisk: Volkswagenball
at the Fleming
Museum at the University of Vermont
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The Dowbrigade is off to give another driving lesson to his 19-year-old
son, the one who wants a Hummer so he can crush other cars out of parking
spaces, the one who eats frozen burritos raw to save time.  He claims
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Against
his better judgment, the Dowbrigade has agreed to attempt one of the
toughest tasks he has tackled in his entire teaching career – explaining
NFL Football to a class of foreign college students [...]

Pander:n., & v.t.
1. go-between in clandestine amours, procurer; one who ministers to evil
designs. 2 v.i. minister (to base passions or evil
designs, or person having these)
Japander:n.,& v.t. [...]

After an extensive search, we finally found an iCal calendar called American Politics and Government with most of
the presidential primaries and some of the debates.  However it is
clearly incomplete.  For example it lists only two primaries for
next Tuesday: Oklahoma and North Dakota.  Whereas a static web
site with a simple primary calendar lists eight: the two [...]

This article from the New
York Times covers a company whose role
seems to be to help business travelers avoid costly faux pas when traveling
abroad. [...]

The
archives of the Bill Clinton presidential library will contain 39,999,998
e-mails by the former president’s staff and two by the man himself.
"The only two he sent," Skip Rutherford, president of the Clinton
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Although of course the Dowbrigade recognizes that part of the power and righteousness of the Blogoshpere derives from its lack of professionalism in the mercenary sense, like most serious Bloggers we sometimes imagine how nice it would be to be able to blog full-time, without having to worry about the time-consuming details of a “day [...]

KEYES, Calif. — No one quite remembers the last big fire
to rage through town, but a firestorm — fueled by sex and the Internet
— has engulfed this rural community. The source of the trouble comes
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What’s up with Technorati? As a devoted follower of the Blogosphere and
our own position within it, the Dowbrigade regularly consults a number
of specialized resources; Feedster to find blogs posting on specific topics
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Taking a breif break before lunch in our Intensive Core Class, our mind refuses to budge from the delicious Eggplant Lasagna we whipped up yesterday in a cold-induced fit of domesticity.
The secret to this dish, of course, is in the Eggplant, which must be sliced into 1/2 inch-thick disks, soaked in a mixture of beaten [...]

The Dowbrigade has decided to finally weigh in on an idea that has been
circulating around the Blogosphere for several weeks now – Adopt-a-Journalist.
The concept was popularized by Jay
Rosen, and then interestingly commented
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