Dowbrigade

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CANAVERAL, Fla. – A riskier-than-usual space walk outside the International
Space Station was cut short last night because of a malfunction that
left one of the two crewmen with a warm, damp [...]

Finally, the day arrives! Parting is such sweet sorrow. The fates conspired to deliver a class for the record books this final, abbreviated six-week semester, one which we will not only not miss, but one which reminded us on multiple occasions that we have been in the mocrowave long enough and were getting while [...]

A security screener at Denver International Airport was reprimanded for
sending his body through an X-ray machine.

"The screener went through the X-ray machine voluntarily," Fierberg
said. "I [...]

Hopefully
this will not catch on in the United States, at least at the Presidential
level. Actually, at the state and local level it might provide
revealing insights into some candidates. With this kind of [...]

A New York priest arrested after allegedly harassing a
Brooklyn bishop has confessed to stealing $50,000 from a church.
Detectives recovered a bag filled with $88,000 in cash during a search
of John Johnston’s apartment in Queens.
[...]

What
would motivate a baseball announcer turned restaurant to pay $113,842
for a baseball that represented one of the most painful and frustrating
sports moments of his career? And, after paying all that money, [...]

Haiti
has long seemed an abandoned outpost of the Dark Continent encrusted
on the bucolic blue Caribbean. From our studies we know it to be, together
[...]

On
Valentine’s Day, nothing says "I love you" like oral sex.
It’s a great way to express your appreciation or love for someone.
First off, pick a place and a [...]

The Dowbrigade has long maintained that the George Bush Fairy Tale Presidency
was just that, and that after George’s bedtime the grownups come over
the house and truly do the nation’s bidness.
It is clear to us that Dick Cheney,
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When the Dowbrigade was a kid, one of his fascinations was for medieval
warfare; suits of armor, the evolution of broadswords,halberds and crossbows,
and of course, the WMD’s of the age, the catapult.  [...]

Ever get that feeling that something bad is about to happen?
photo from Therion Arms

Anyone with a more than passing knowledge of the US tax system and
the Federal budget realizes that the far majority of government spending
comes directly from the paychecks of US workers. In fact, businesses
[...]