Archive for March 17th, 2004

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A Urinal That’s Hard to Miss

Even though
they allow for high-volume servicing and back-in-a-flash trips to the
john, the point-and-shoot-a-stinky-deodorizer-cake oddity
known as the men’s
restroom urinal has been, for women, a [...]

VA IT Dir. Stole $40K for Sex and BMW

Mar 17, 2004 — The Town of Leesburg’s former director of Information
Technology was sentenced this morning to four months in jail for stealing
nearly $40,000 from the town to pay for escort services and to buy high-performance
[...]

Scottish Scientists Solve Stout Mystery

Scientists have shown that the bubbles in a pint of Guinness
really do move down instead of up.

To mark St Patrick’s Day, a team of Scottish and US researchers has
produced video evidence to show the bubbles being dragged to [...]

Blowing Up Illusions on Inflation

The
Dowbrigade has been smelling something fishy in the Department of Labor
and Office of Management and Budget statistics for a while now. Although
we don’t have an advanced degree [...]

March Sadness

Derrick
Z. Jackson, Boston Globe columnist and indefatigable
crusader against the sham that is "amateur" collegiate sports in this
country, especially football and basketball. The Dowbrigade has
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