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Author Archives: glasscastle
A Christmas Story
Despite the season of peace and goodwill, the Dowbrigade household has for the past week been enveloped in an acute pre-Christmas crisis. Nothing as mundane as a cash-flow shortage, or as dramatic as domestic abuse, it was mysterious and disturbing … Continue reading
Posted in Friends and Family
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Saving the Worst for Last
WRENTHAM — Jeffrey Cardin walked into a pub Thursday night near the modest cottage where he lived alone and told a stranger he was suffering through the worst day of his life. He didn’t know the half of it. Cardin, … Continue reading
Posted in Serious News
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Don’t Try This at Home
BEIJING, Dec. 18 — A Hollywood stuntman who worked on one of the "Men in Black" films suffered serious injuries in Shanghai on Saturday when he fell off a moving car while trying to jump through a ring of fire. … Continue reading
Posted in Wacky News
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Pot Top Crop In United States
The $35-billion market value of U.S.-grown cannabis tops that of such heartland staples as corn and hay, a marijuana activist says. SACRAMENTO — For years, activists in the marijuana legalization movement have claimed that cannabis is America’s biggest cash crop. … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
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World’s Tallest Man Lends a Hand
FUSHUN, China — Bao Xishun, the world’s tallest man, reaches in to retrieve objects from the stomach of a sick dolphin at an aquarium in Fushun, in China’s northern Liaoning province. Bao, whose arms measure more than a meter in … Continue reading
Posted in Wacky News
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Blogjacking Storm Clouds
Dark clouds are gathering over the local blogosphere. First there were "splog" attacks, pieces of spam left in the comments area of local blogs. That was kids’ stuff. Now it appears that at least two blogs in the western suburbs … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
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Shoppin’ Fool
The Dowbrigade is a sucker for a bargain. On rare occasions this means we stumble onto a true, historic bargain. Even a blind pig comes up with a truffle now and again. However, much more often we wind up being … Continue reading
Posted in Friends and Family
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Flying Mammal Not a Bird, Or a Bat, or a Squirrel
Scientists have discovered an extinct animal the size of a small squirrel that lived in China at least 125 million years ago and soared among the trees. It is the earliest known example of gliding flight by mammals, and the … Continue reading
Posted in Weird Science
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New HIV Treatments Smart
In two studies, researchers in Kenya and Uganda enrolled thousands of uncircumcised men to determine if the procedure could reduce HIV transmission among heterosexuals, with some men having their foreskin removed and others remaining intact. The trial in Kenya, involving … Continue reading
Posted in Weird Science
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The Next Generation of Blogging
Taking advantage of our recent hiatus from blogging, we have had occasion to review what we were putting into our blog, and what our readers were getting out of it. We came to the conclusion that it may be time … Continue reading
The Next Generation of Blogging
Taking advantage of our recent hiatus from blogging, we had occasion to review what we were putting into our blog, and what our readers were getting out of it. We came to the conclusion that it may be time for … Continue reading
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