Dowbrigade

Did we ever mention that we once had as a student a female Japanese lawyer named Sosumi?

 
In
this cartoon, from Al-Watan (Oman) (August 10, 2002), Jewish acts are
equated with those of the Nazis. This Nazi-type anti-Semitic caricature
[...]

Donald Rumsfeld is giving the president his daily briefing.
He concludes by saying:
“Yesterday, three Brazilian soldiers were killed in an accident.”
“OH NO!” the President exclaims. “That’s terrible!”
His staff sit stunned at this display of emotion, nervously watching as the president sits, head in hands.
Finally, the President looks up and asks…
“How many is a Brazillion??!”
from [...]

Once again, the Dowbrigade explores new media….

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 [...]

Ah, the exotic linguistic innovations of the young
and hip. As we tell our students, slang is the testing laboratory of
the languague, where new words and expressions are run through their
paces and [...]