Dowbrigade

Saw some footage on CBS Evening
News just now that cheered us up, after a somewhat depressing news day
featuring death, disease and some truly disturbed individuals. It starred
American’s
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The
current "Who Do" over the history of podcasting struck us first as comical
(as had podcasting itself), then
as perplexing, and then back to ridiculous.  As we mentioned
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The
similarities between Iraq and Vietnam are moving from disquieting to
disturbing to desperately dire. Then as now, a gullible and
gung-ho public was duped into a foreign war by a corrupt administration
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CARACAS, Venezuela (Reuters) – Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez on Thursday accused U.S. President George W. Bush
of trying to destabilize his government by engineering an opposition
boycott of a December 4 legislative vote.
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TORONTO (Reuters) – The Canadian province
of Ontario plans to review a court decision that acquitted a man of sexual
assault charges because he suffers from "sexsomnia" and was
asleep at the time of [...]

LYON,
France, Dec. 2 – The world’s first person to wear a new face awoke in
the northern city of Amiens, France,
on Monday – 24 hours after [...]

Washington D.C. (AHN) – On March 2, the
first of 800 million redesigned $500 bills will begin popping up at cash
registers and ATM machines across the country.
Government officials announced Thursday they have picked the [...]

TOKYO – Coin importer Taisei Coins Corp
and Sanrio Co said Wednesday that they will jointly sell three euro coins
with images of the latter’s "Hello Kitty" character on them,
beginning on Dec 5.
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Temperatures never rise above freezing
and there is a fresh sprinkling of snow every day, but step outside and
you will find a sunbaked desert.
Complete with Alpine-style chalets, fir trees, chairlifts and ski runs
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The Hubble Space Telescope has caught
the most detailed view of the Crab Nebula, revealing the intricate epitaph
of a long-dead star.
The nebula spans a patch of space six light-years across and has proved
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BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (Reuters) –
Sightseers in Buenos Aires got a shock Thursday when the city’s most
famous landmark, the obelisk, was covered with a giant pink condom on
World AIDS Day.
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