Archive for April 15th, 2004

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Been There, Done That

It was
eerily appropriate that the very first question in President Bush’s press
conference the other night was about the Iraq-Vietnam analogy.
Bush stared straight into the camera and declared, of course, that there
was [...]

Live Good - Die Hard

Erectile dysfunction advertising has changed considerably
since a somber Bob Dole explained the medical condition in a 1999 ad
paid for by Pfizer Inc. (PFE), maker of market leader Viagra.
Levitra’s initial ads, which began last fall, were criticized by some [...]

What Happened to Cyberspace - Land Without Borders?

Don’t you just hate it when well-intentioned attempts to automate clever
little features of your tools make it impossible to configure them the
way you want? Once the Dowbrigade made the move to the Ecuadorian
[...]

Beauty in the Eye of the Beholder

MADISON,
Wis. — There is more to beauty than meets the stranger’s eye, according
to results from three studies examining the influence of non-physical
traits on people’s perception of physical attractiveness.
The results, which show [...]

Mummy’s Boy Lost in Germany

Police in Germany
had a hard time returning a little boy to his family after he told them
his name was "Mummy’s boy".
The boy, aged two, was seen trying to cross a street on his [...]

Pay No Attention to the Men Behind the Curtain

Apparently the markets are all in an uproar over the prospect that
inflation is about to rear its ugly head. All we can say is, it’s about
time. It seems clear to the Dowbrigade, from an intuitive layman’s point
[...]


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