Monthly Archives: April 2004

When the Dowbrigade was a wee lad, he didn’t want to be a fireman, or a cowboy, or even President. Our only aspiration was to become, someday, an astronaut. Of course, we were forced to give up the dream years ago … Continue reading →

The original Gringo Trail, we suppose, followed the route of Francisco Pizzaro, who arrived in Peru in 1532, and scorched a path of death and destruction up from the coast and into the Andean redoubts of the Incan Empire, in … Continue reading →

In isolated pockets of human society around the globe and throughout history, at times and places when law and order breaks down, when honest hardworking people feel victimized and disgusted to see criminals and lowlifes in positions high and low, … Continue reading →

Archaeologists have discovered an underground maze in Egypt crammed with more than 50 mummies. The buried network was unearthed in Saqqara, 25 kilometres south of Cairo, by a team of Egyptian and French researchers. They hope studying the contents and … Continue reading →

On the Friday before his MEET THE PRESS appearance, Dem presidential hopeful John Kerry flew his Washington, DC hairdresser to Pittsburgh for a touch-up, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. Cristophe stylist Isabelle Goetz, who handles Kerry’s hair issues, made the … Continue reading →

Zookeepers in Austria set up an inflatable pool to keep a baby elephant cool during an unexpected burst of warm weather. Staff at Vienna’s Schoenbrunn Zoo, one of the oldest in the world, set up the kiddies’ pool for their … Continue reading →

Norma Yvonne refers to meteorologists as "mentirologos" (liarists), for their tendency to turn every possible snow, rain or wind storm into civil defense apocolypse and sending the terrified citizenry rushing to hardware stores and Targets for shovels, salt and drinking … Continue reading →

The Berkman Blogging crowd has truly hit the road after the centralized success of BloggerCon II. Feldman and Greenspun are at different ends of Ecuador, and Winer and Grumet are in Amsterdam having a hot dinner with Curry. Tally ho, … Continue reading →

The number of Ecuadorians illegally entering the US by sea has surpassed the number of Cuban boat people or illegal Hatian immigrants, according to a recent study by the US Embassy in Quito, Ecuador.  The source of the problem is … Continue reading →

NEW YORK (AP) – Two gay lovers – a man in a black dress and a boy in only a pair of shorts – protested their families’ lack of understanding for their relationship by climbing a Central Park tree on … Continue reading →

What happened to the Memory Hole? At this point it is unclear whether the Defense Department actually tried to prohibit access to Memory Hole, as has been reported by numerous reputable media sources. Some facts, however, are clear. The US … Continue reading →

In February librarians found a 62-page manuscript in which Johanna Fantova, a former curator of maps in the Firestone Library at Princeton University, who was 22 years younger than Albert Einstein, recorded his musings, opinions and complaints over the last … Continue reading →