Archive for November, 2004

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Violence Is Our Inheritance

The strange case of the Hmong
hunter in Wisconsin who
gunned down six fellow hunters in a turf battle for a deer blind continues
to fascinate and horrify America. Frankly, we [...]

Delving Deeper into Categories

Looking back over our
posting of last Friday, when we
introduced our new cat-a-gories, we note that it is almost all about
our cat, and not about our agories at all. [...]

A Turkey Tale

We
must confess, the Dowbrigade is a sucker for a good coupon. A few years
ago, when we were trying to feed two hungry teenagers
on a teacher’s salary, we assiduously clipped coupons [...]

Welcome to the Village

Since 9/11, recruiting the raw material on which the
Dowbrigade’s day job depends has become increasingly difficult. We are
talking about foreigners who come to this country to participate in and
contribute to [...]

Feline Friday

In what we understand has become a tradition of sorts in some parts
of the Blogosphere, we have chosen today to inaugurate our new CAT-A-GORIES section in the right-hand margin of the Dowbrigade News.
Although we confess to being remiss in our application of categories,
[...]

America’s Image Abroad

Scary stuff And these are our closest allies abroad?

Dowbrigade Discovers Miracle Cheese

The
bidding is fast and furious over on eBay as we write, for the 10-year
old half-eaten cheese sandwich with the unmistakable image of the virgin
Mary on its surface.
At last count, the
[...]

The Rise of the Republicants

The ubiquitous Joe
Trippi has been saying since
long before the election that the next four years were going to see
the demise of one of the [...]

Bush Kicks Blog Ass

A rather scathing analysis of the effect of blogging
on the election appeared in The Register of London…

Even if Jesus set up a blogging cafe in the center of Rockport, Texas
[...]

Bush Kicks Blog Ass

A rather scathing analysis of the effect of blogging
on the election appeared in The Register of London…

Even if Jesus set up a blogging cafe in the center of Rockport, Texas
[...]

Rush Limbaugh Eliminates PEST

Rush Limbaugh is being taken to task for mercilessly "mocking" distraught
Kerry supporters in need of recuperative therapy. Hey, anybody who looks
to Rush for Mental Health advice deserves whatever they get….

The Boca Raton News reported last week that more than 30 distraught
[...]

The Demise of the Democratic Party

Here
in the cradle of liberty we like to think of ourselves as early adopters,
of things like independence, democracy, abolition,
women’s suffrage, public education, private education, professional
[...]


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