Dowbrigade

created by Ted Rall

An email report we received from a gold investor’s list claims ex-weapons
inspector Scott Ritter gave a speech Friday in Olympia, Washington, in
which he stated George Bush has seen and signed off on plans to attack
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Yesterday, accompanied by Dr. P.J. Sinestro, a chiropractor with obscure
mob connections buried deeply in his past, the Dowbrigade took in a Boston University Men’s Varsity
Basketball joust with local rival Northeastern. College sports is one
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Long
before the current obsession with "Citizen Journalism" one man stood
tall and rejected
the ludicrous and self-serving myth of "journalistic objectivity". His
name was Hunter Thompson [...]

Scientists may be serious people, engaged in the pursuit of objective
truth. But when it comes to naming species, they often let their hair
down.
So the insect world has Heerz tooya, [...]

We sometimes get so caught up in the whining and kvetching we do on a
daily basis that we lose sight of the fact that we are really among
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WASHINGTON,
Feb. 19 – As George W. Bush was first moving onto the national political
stage, he often turned for advice to an old friend who secretly taped
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In what could be a very interesting retirement investment opportunity,
the ailing "Love Hotel" industry in Japan is looking for foreign investors.
Since new erections are so expensive in a fevered real-estate market
like [...]

This
weeks meeting of the Berkman
Thursday Bloggers Salon was certainly
atypical.  For one, it was being filmed by and ABC crew for a story
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Lebanon,
the modern incarnation of the Phoenician Empire, is in the news again. The
latest development has the US and UN poobahs trying to use the recent
assassination of Rafik
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Forever
fated to play the poor step-sister, Boston Univeristy is prepared to
go to any length to get attention and exposure. (see Membrum
Virile Envy) BU’s new porn mag, "boink" is ready to hit [...]

Suddenly,
video is flying around the net like debris flung from an
explosives-rigged homicide ambulance. One of our far-flung sources
forwards a pretty authentic-looking propaganda film commemorating the
recent birthday of North Korean President Kim
Jong-Il, notorious videophile and collector of Mazda RX-7 sports cars.
The other is a bit more [...]