Dowbrigade

When
the Dowbrigade was a wee lad, he didn’t want to be a fireman, or a cowboy,
or even President. Our only aspiration was to become, someday,
an astronaut. Of course, we were forced to […]

The original Gringo Trail, we suppose, followed the route of Francisco Pizzaro, who arrived in Peru in 1532, and scorched a path of death and destruction up from the coast and into the Andean redoubts of the Incan Empire, in search of gold and jewels to enrich the coffers of the Spanish crown, and, of […]

In isolated
pockets of human society around the globe and throughout history, at
times and places when law and order breaks down, when honest hardworking
people feel victimized and disgusted to see criminals and lowlifes in
[…]

Archaeologists
have discovered an underground maze in Egypt crammed with more than
50 mummies.
The buried network was unearthed in Saqqara, 25 kilometres south of Cairo,
[…]

On
the Friday before his MEET THE PRESS appearance, Dem presidential hopeful
John Kerry flew his Washington, DC hairdresser to Pittsburgh for
a touch-up, the DRUDGE
REPORT […]

Zookeepers in Austria
set up an inflatable pool to keep a baby elephant cool during an unexpected
burst of warm weather.
Staff at Vienna’s Schoenbrunn Zoo, one of the oldest in the world, set
[…]

Norma Yvonne refers to meteorologists as "mentirologos" (liarists),
for their tendency to turn every possible snow, rain or wind storm into
civil defense apocolypse and sending the terrified citizenry rushing
to hardware stores […]

The Berkman Blogging crowd has truly hit the road after the centralized success of BloggerCon II. Feldman and Greenspun are at different ends of Ecuador, and Winer and Grumet are in Amsterdam having a hot dinner with Curry. Tally ho, and fill a bowl for me, boys.

The number of Ecuadorians illegally entering the US by
sea has surpassed the number of Cuban boat people or illegal Hatian immigrants,
according to a recent study by the US Embassy in Quito, Ecuador.  The
[…]

NEW
YORK (AP) - Two gay lovers - a man in a black dress and a boy in only
a pair of shorts - protested their families’ lack of understanding for
their relationship […]

What happened
to the Memory Hole? At this point it is unclear whether the Defense Department
actually tried to prohibit access to Memory Hole, as has been reported
[…]

In February librarians found a 62-page manuscript in
which Johanna Fantova, a former curator of maps in the Firestone Library
at Princeton University, who was 22 years younger than Albert Einstein,
recorded his musings, […]