Dowbrigade

A Boston College student was detained by the Secret Service for taking
pictures of his own campus. The student, Sundeep Sahni, is a member of
the Sikh religion and wears a full turban. In most cases security on
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During the Democratic Convention the Dowbrigade (seen here with some
of his vegetable friends)
noticed a certain competetive distrust bordering on dislike between the
Bloggers and members of […]

John Kerry got lucky last night. As a 30-year Boston resident
the Dowbrigade has heard him deliver a lot of speeches. And informal
chats. And press conferences. So we can say with some authority that
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Somehow, now that The Man is up on the stage, giving “the most important speech of his life”, it seems like almost an afterthought. But we came all this way, we may as well blog it.
He opens with, “My name is John Kerry, and I am reporting for duty.” This line gets big reaction. He […]

Someone
must have slipped a dose of Sodium Pentathol into our Diet Coke as we
went through security because we feel overwhelmed by a desire to reveal
a secret so deeply held we didn’t […]

Another hot topic among the bloggers is the proliferation of "psuedo-blogs"
which are popping up all over Boston like acne on a teenager in a chocolate
factory. These "psuedo-blogs" come in many forms.
Much in evidence these days, of course, are politician’s […]

Okay, here we go.  Back in our seat in Blogger’s Row, where fistfights
are about to break out over seating space. Part of the problem is that
the joint is absolutely packed to the rafter’s for this, the final night
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Al Sharpton
last night believed the only speech so far that could be classified as
a real
barn burner. The spontaneous cheers and delegate delirium far
exceeded […]

The pre-Convention press coverage here in Boston made it sound like
The Mongol Hordes led by the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse were about
to descend on our fair city.  We were told to expect gridlocked
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John Edwards just hit the stage, introduced by his wife. Predictably, the place went wild, although Al Sharpton created the most frenzy to date. His drawl seems more pronounced than in recent speeches. He starts by echoing Mellencamp.
“I grew up in a small town in rural North Carolina. My father worked in a mill […]

The Show goes on. Finally, a little popular culture. John Cougar Mellencamp
just finished singing "Small Town" and now Bill Richardson, America’s
most unlikely Latino, is speaking in Spanish. Being in the midst of all
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Back on Blogger’s Row there is an air of restrained exuberance due less, we suspect, to tonight’s speaking agenda than to the Big Blogger’s Bash later tonight at an exclusive Greek restaurant in Charlestown where we are invited to meet “the future majority leaders of Congress”. Stay tuned for a report.
Bad news on the key […]