Monthly Archives: May 2004

Tourists visiting New York’s Times Square are blushing over a new Swatch watch billboard that features six pairs of rabbits in various sexual positions, according to a Local 6 News report. The billboard kicks off the new "Bunnysutra" Swatch watch … Continue reading →

Our good blogging buddy Sanskritboy reports spending his Saturday afternoons translating dhaeraaaes and laughing at the ineptitude of some poor Chinese language nerds who died 1500 years ago! Not only have they incorrectly divided the compound Kambalvottara as Kambal + … Continue reading →

The Financial Times just hit the net with a story titled:US Does U-turn over Sadr and Aims for Accord “We have approached the stakeholders and asked them to give us numbers,” said Gen Dempsey, whose forces replaced Spanish and Latin … Continue reading →

Don’t You Hate It When That Happens? Six nails embedded in the skull of construction worker Isidro Mejia, 39, after an industrial incident caused a nail gun to shoot nails into his head and brain on April 19, 2004, are … Continue reading →

The grand incognito here in Manta, the invisible bear lurking down the coastline, is the completely refurbished and terminally off limits Ecuadorian Air Force Base currently being operated on a renewable 99-year lease by the US Southern Command. When the … Continue reading →

This story, in today’s Boston Globe, is the first indication we have received that Blogging the Convention is a real possibility – at least for some Bloggers.  Despite our near-desperate desire, position near the top of the Berkman hits list, … Continue reading →

For Mothers’s Day here in the dusty market town of Chone, Ecuador, Norma Yvonne’s mom Annie requested that the Dowbrigade whip up one of our trademark dishes, Eggplant Lasagna, which she tried and liked on one of her visits to … Continue reading →

Los Angeles Times Editor John S. Caroll delivered a devastating broadside at what he refered to as “psuedo-journalism” during his delivery of the prestiegous annual Ruhl Lecture. Whew – for a minute we thought he was refering to Bloggers. Actually, … Continue reading →

To the disappointment and dismay of many of our close friends, especially here in South America, the Dowbrigade was a strong supporter of US military intervention in Iraq. Our primary reasoning was that Saddam Hussein was a VERY evil man, … Continue reading →

My foreign students are always charmed by the famous

An interesting, in-depth article appeared in the Washington Post this week about the prevalent practice of third world diplomats in the United States bringing domestic servants to Washington and New York on work visas and keeping them in virtual slavery … Continue reading →

The aspect of the Great Experiment that deals with the factibility of living a reasonably rounded digital life here on the beach in South America has been running up against some serious trouble in  the form of our super-slow internet … Continue reading →