Monthly Archives: October 2004

The Bad Things have started to happen. The cosmic balance has been upset, the gods are angry, and there’ll be hell to pay. One day after the triumphant Victory Parade through the rain-drenched streets of Boston, celebrating the end of … Continue reading →

Longtime readers may remember that the Dowbrigade has long felt underenDOWed in the comments department.  Our single greatest commenter is our dear Mum, up in Downeast Maine, and it always surprises us that we are as likely to get comments … Continue reading →

The Dowbrigade is considered an early adopter, at least among the crowd that shops at K-Mart and nations belonging to the Andean Pact. On Friday, still flush with the reflected glory of the Beantown Boys in the World Series and … Continue reading →

On thing the Dowbrigade has been pondering for a while now, and which we have concluded is one of the key pressure points for fixing what ails us, is the often obscure process by which the world decides what is … Continue reading →

Police block exits to Kenmore Wed. night (Dowbrigade photo) Boston awoke today to dark threatening skies laid thick on a cold, raw mist, a steady drizzle coating the streets with a slick shiny sheen. Despite that fact, up to five … Continue reading →

The Red Sox are nine outs away from winning the World Series. Our emotions are strong, and mixed, and difficult to describe. We have been a fanatic of the Sox through thick and thin, since we moved to Cambridge in … Continue reading →

Ever on the prowl for scientifically significant research topics, cutting edge anthropologists in Australia are deep into a precise comparison of peeing methods – modern out-house sit-down vs. indigineous natural squatting. But researchers found westerners could not hold the squat … Continue reading →

LHASA, TIBET—Deng Hsu, 14, said Monday that he is “totally getting into Western philosophy.” “I’ve been reading a lot of Kant, Descartes, and Hegel, and it’s blowing my mind,” Hsu said. “It’s so exotic and exciting, not like all that … Continue reading →

The situation in Fallujah is a deadly puzzle.  If anywhere in the world could be called Terrorism Central, this is the place The entire city and its suburbs has been in the hands of the rebels since the marines pulled … Continue reading →

For a while there it was looking as though email was becoming obsolete and impossible to use. Our emailboxes (all half dozen of them) were filling up constantly with ridiculous come-ons, fantastic products and transparent scams, and picking out the real … Continue reading →