Dowbrigade

For half an hour after finishing the previous posting, the Dowbrigade tried to explain to Norma Yvonne that while 1-0 was the most common score in soccer, in baseball it was the rarest of gems. Control of the remote was at stake. Needless to say, we lost, and listened to the game on the [...]

In what is probably a case of too many (positions) too late, John
Kerry has finally come out with an Iraq policy which is in clear contrast
to the Bush position. Kerry has for some time been having trouble elucidating
[...]

Just turned on the NBC Evening News, and they are featuring a story on Bloggers, in respect to their role in exposing the Rather documents as fakes. They ask the question, “Who are they, and how did they get so powerful?” Funny, we don’t feel so powerful.
Tom Brokaw opened by calling us “amatuer pubdits”. A [...]

As
a teacher and a blogger, the Dowbrigade dreams of the day when he will
discover a blogger in one of his classes. We could blog about running the class and he or she could blog about being on the receiving [...]

Most senior US military officers now believe the war on Iraq has turned into a disaster on an unprecedented scale
by Sidney Blumenthal in the Guardian

Quechua
Indians from Peru, Damian dela Cruz, left, and Sebastian Paitan rehearse
at the National Mall, Monday, Sept 20, 2004, in Washington. The Quechuan
Indians are performing at the grand opening of the National [...]

According
to the Boston
Globe, last season’s loser to the George Bush juggernaut,
Al Gore,
is enjoying a bit of a [...]

A great
many books will eventually be written about the 2004 electoral campaign.  If
the true facts are ever unearthed (and they almost always come out sooner
or later), the tome on the dirty [...]

The wild
swings in recent polls suggest the race is volatile. The nonpartisan
Pew Research Center and Harris Interactive polls this week indicated
that the race is essentially tied, while a new [...]

You know how you always find out about the GOOD stuff after its already
over, by hearing someone bragging or reading a review in the paper? Well,
no excuses this time. This Sunday, from 1 to 5 pm, ALL [...]

The
Dowbrigade finds the present electoral season disappointing in so many
ways. One of the featured acts we were really looking
forward to enjoying was the display of political contortionism and dissimulation
[...]

In a startling move into the 20th century, and after
multiple unsuccessful attempts, the British House of Parliment banned
the ancient sport of Riding After the Hounds, in which a raucous posse
of hundreds [...]