Dowbrigade

Back
when the Dowbrigade was a rambunctious young refugee from Ivy academics
we  served an extended apprenticeship
with a middle aged San Pedro shaman in a tiny seafront town in the middle
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In a few short hours the Dowbrigade is off to San
Francisco. Our first trip since the Bad Run medical evacuation from South
America. This one, however, should be a Milk Run.
We have never spent more than a few hour
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - It seemed like the perfect gimmick:
a celebrity porn star would launch her own wine, with her alluring picture
on the label.
Savanna Samson did just that, but when it received a […]

It’s getting to be that time again. The old CPU seems
sluggish, despite regular maintenance and spring cleaning, and we have
access to software our hardware can’t handle. It happens like clockwork,
every three […]

The songs
of the humpback whale are among the most complex
in the animal kingdom. Researchers have now mathematically confirmed
that whales have their own syntax that uses sound units to build […]

MALIBU, Calif. — A Los Angeles County sheriff inspects
the wreckage of a rare Ferrari Enzo that crashed on the Pacific Coast
Highway Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2006, in Malibu, Calif. The red Ferrari, estimated
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CARACAS, Venezuela - More than 1,500 Venezuelans shed
their clothes on a main city avenue Sunday to pose for American photographer
Spencer Tunick, forming a human mosaic in front of a national symbol:
a […]

The classic internet scam involving the wife/financial
advisor/secretary of the Minister of Finance of Nigeria/Kenya/Uganda,
who needs access to a foreign bank account to tidy up the funds.The continued
variations on this scam must […]

Five towns in rural Vermont have passed resolutions calling for the Impeachment
of President Bush. For what? The list of his sins grows
weekly but includes malfeasance, misfeasance, lying, extortion, withholding
evidence, […]

The Pentagon’s defence scientists want to create an army of cyber-insects
that can be remotely controlled to check out explosives and send transmissions.
The idea is to insert micro-systems at the pupa stage, when the insects
can integrate […]

ALMATY
(Reuters) - Burglars in Kazakhstan locked a funeral parlor employee in
a coffin and kept him there unconscious while rummaging for cash in the
shop.
Serik Sarsenbayev said […]

American artist Spencer Tunick has photographed and
filmed masses of people in the nude in dozens of public places from Finland
to Australia, and now he is looking for at least 2,000 volunteers in
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