Dowbrigade

Faced
with the biggest crisis of his political life, President Bush has hit
the bottle again, The National Enquirer can reveal.
Bush, who said he quit drinking the morning after his 40th birthday, has
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IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho weatherman
says Japan’s Yakuza mafia used a Russian-made electromagnetic generator
to cause Hurricane Katrina in a bid to avenge itself for the Hiroshima
atom bomb attack — [...]

SEATTLE (Reuters) - A U.S. doctor has
sued a Seattle-area newspaper for defamation after it reported he posed
as his twin, a gynecologist, to have sex with his brother’s patients.
Dennis Momah said the King County [...]

NEW YORK — An interfaith group released
a new textbook yesterday aimed at teaching public high school students
about the Bible while avoiding legal and religious disputes.
The nonprofit Bible Literacy Project of Fairfax, Va., spent [...]

Sometimes
the Dowbrigade feels stumped for subjects to Blog on. It’s not that your
faithful correspondent lacks
for ideas, rants or motivation.  Rather, it is that so many fecund
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DAMASCUS,
Syria, Sept. 21 - In the last year or so, Barbie dolls have all but disappeared
from the shelves of many toy stores in the Middle East. In their place,
there is Fulla, [...]

DAMASCUS,
Syria, Sept. 21 - In the last year or so, Barbie dolls have all but disappeared
from the shelves of many toy stores in the Middle East. In their place,
there is Fulla, [...]

Poll: Jordan top anti-Jew nation
Jordan leads the Islamic world in its
antipathy for Jews according to a
new poll by the Pew Research Center.
The poll, which surveyed 17,000 people in 17 countries, said 100 percent
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NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - Remember when gas spiked to $3-plus
a gallon after Hurricane Katrina? By this time next week, that could
seem like the good old days.
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LONDON (AFP) - Business folk are used
to reading executive summaries of important documents, and now would-be
Christians are to have the same privilege, in the form of a chopped-down
Bible that can be [...]

LONDON (AFP) - Business folk are used
to reading executive summaries of important documents, and now would-be
Christians are to have the same privilege, in the form of a chopped-down
Bible that can be [...]

The Dowbrigade has been in this situation, many times. Worse, since the little wanderer in our family is an eight-year-old female honey-colored Tabby named, appropriately, Honey. She’s not supposed to go out, but does, regularly.
Early one Sunday morning last winter there we stood on our porch, just like Arlo, shivering in our bathrobe and [...]