Dowbrigade

Five
finalists of the Miss
Universe 2005 contest pose on the stage at the
final round at Impact Arena in Bangkok, Thailand Tuesday, May 31, 2005.
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The Shocking-but-False story of America’s Blackstronauts.
A video spoof in the style of Ken Burns.
Thanks to John D.

SEOUL (Reuters) - Candy is dandy for North Korean children trying
to grow tall, strong and smart in a country battling chronic food shortages.
North Korea has developed a candy it claims is good for children and will
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NEW
YORK - The Dowbrigade has learned, from his confidential but strategically
placed sources, that the current unprecedented cold,
rainy weather affecting the Boston area may not be an entirely natural
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Those
of us who do not believe in coincidence are doomed to spending significant
time looking for the correlations in juxtapositions of events such as
the following. First came the case of the Parking […]

WAGGAMAN,
        La. — A public school
teacher fed up with his students’ behavior found a way to berate them
in the context of a class assignment. The Jefferson Parish teacher
wrote and distributed a two-page essay to his fourth-grade
      students saying he hated his job,
blasting the children’s “animal”behavior, and even identifying some of
them by name.         Titled
“I Wonder Why?” […]

        La. — A public school teacher fed up with his students’ behavior found
        a way to berate them in the context of a class assignment. The Jefferson
        Parish teacher wrote and distributed a two-page essay to his fourth-grade
        students saying he hated his job, blasting the children’s "animal"
        behavior, and […]

Another Nor ‘easter lashes the recently unwrapped windows
and assaults our apartment from all sides. It’s hard not to allow the
weather to affect one’s mood, especially when it is nasty. It is sometimes
[…]

New
Belgian identity cards have been printed with spelling mistakes in a bid
to fool forgers.
The identity cards include the country name in the three official Belgian
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As
predicted in this space as early as last November, the moderate wing
of the Republican party ("Rational Republicans") is feeling its way towards
a
"Middle Path" […]

On a cold rainy night in Boston, Memorial Day around the corner though Spring hasn’t sprung, let alone Summer, it is nice to remember another world, in its way as different and as fantastic as Star Wars, but in reality only 18 hours away, by plane and bus…

The legends in this collection can […]

Anyone who is into Skateboarding, or Basketball, or
outrageous video, should check out this off-the-walls 60-second video
clip of what a bunch of professional boarders do when they get bored
with spins, flips and […]