Dowbrigade

The Dowbrigade’s day job is in danger. After four waves of layoff’s,
we are now the full time Senior Fellow with the least seniority – 15
years.  The problem lies in who we teach – foreign graduate students.
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When we reported to duty back at our day job yesterday, it was like
waking up from a long, weird dream. To have survived a week in the middle
of the media maelstrom, surrounded by power-hungry politicians and gear-stripping
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Alternet, an alternative media network whose motto is “The Mix is the Message” weighs in with a better-than-average analysis titled “Blog Planet”.
Seeing the bloggers at the convention brings to mind all sorts of unlikely (and uncomfortable) meetings between establishment and ostensible outsider – Steven King getting a national book award, Mick Jagger being knighted, [...]

A quick roundup of recent articles on the Blogger’s at the DNC:

An article from the Sunday New York Times Fashion and Style section
titled "Blogged in Boston: Politics Gets an Unruly Spin"

An article from the San Francisco Chronicle, [...]

ORLANDO,
FLA. – A 13-year-old girl testified Monday that a Walt Disney World worker
dressed as the beloved character Tigger fondled her breast while she
posed for a photo with him and her mother.
"I [...]