Dowbrigade

A
toy being sold from Florida to Boston depicts an airliner crashing into
twin towers as the trophy for a candy cache. We are trying to track down
any unrecalled packages, as these will [...]

August 27, 2004 (Torino, Italy) – Scientists fear that
emerging evidence may suggest a new outbreak of the Ebola virus, which,
in addition to threatening
human lives, would threaten tens of thousands of great apes "in this case
gorillas [...]

This sort of thing is obviously why the military
and the administration are resisting public hearings or trials for these
guys…
GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – A Yemeni prisoner confessed to being
a member of Al [...]

The
Dowbrigade and Norma Yvonne are thinking of driving down to NYC on Sunday
to attend/cover the massive protest planned for the day before the opening
of the RNC. Scheduled for the 41st anniversary [...]

We are currently working on a virtual import project with our
foreign business students, in which they choose a product from their
home market they think would sell well in Boston, and via the internet go
[...]

It was not without some trepidation that the Dowbrigade
waited in the bowels of Logan Airport for the arrival of AA flight 286
from San Jose, California. Aboard, at least in theory, were 12 Japanese
[...]

Hotel heiress and reality TV star Paris Hilton today called for an end to the controversy over Sen. John Kerry’s Vietnam War service, warning that the continuing swift boat flap was distracting attention away from her.
from the Borowitz Report

Terrorists will paralyze the Internet on August 26,
a Russian expert in antivirus programs said on Tuesday.
Speaking at a conference hosted by Russian Information Agency Novosti,
Aleksandr Gostev from Kaspersky Labs said information on this terrorist
[...]

Truth
eventually eclipses fiction, even legendary folk tales like the stories
of Babe, Paul Bunyons giant blue ox……
For a glimpse of what post-human athletes may look like
beginning in the 2012 or 2016 Olympics, [...]

Vs.
Mystery solved.  The Olympic
sport we chanced across
the other day and couldn’t identify was none other than the ever-popular
HANDBALL!! Obviously, the reason we had never seen it before is that
[...]

What
a shame we have to work during the Olympics. Missing so many events is
making us think seriously for the first time
about getting a TiVo.  On the other hand, by flipping through [...]

One
of our favorite theories of the inevitability of Blogging holds that
eventually, whenever something noteworthy or memorable happens in the
world there will be a blogger nearby to witness and record. Well, [...]