Category Archives: Serious News

NEW ORLEANS (Reuters) – Baying forlornly, hissing at strangers and increasingly dehydrated and hungry, tens of thousands of pets have probably been left behind in the devastated city of New Orleans, animal care agencies say. Animal rescue workers from across … Continue reading →

If, as they say, the three most important factors in business success are location, location, and location, then the three most important factors in political success are timing, timing and timing. The Dowbrigade has long been predicting a schism in … Continue reading →

Bob Denver, whose television roles as Gilligan, the wacky first mate in "Gilligan’s Island," and Maynard G. Krebs, the beatnik with a bongo in "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis," were first hits, then cult classics, died on Friday in … Continue reading →

Panicked by rumors of a suicide bomber, thousands of Shiite pilgrims broke into a stampede on a bridge during a religious procession Wednesday, crushing one another or plunging 30 feet into the muddy Tigris river. About 800 died, mostly women … Continue reading →

The Associated Press released a rather astounding piece today in which Darth Rumsfield makes an Orwellian argument that the military is actually on the same side as the environmentalists – because they need to protect the habitat of some endangered … Continue reading →

Joseph Druce may now claim he did not kill notorious pedophile priest John Geoghan in his cell, or if he did, he did it to "save the kids." But a macabre video shot in Druce’s cell shortly after the murder … Continue reading →

  History will deal with George W. Bush and the neoconservatives who misled a mighty nation into a flawed war that is draining the finest military in the world, diverting Guard and reserve forces that should be on the front … Continue reading →

Great essay on what’s wrong with Blondie journalism… Does it make me a bad American if I just don’t care about Natalee Holloway (above and beyond the general concern expressed at the beginning of this story?) Is the life and … Continue reading →

A Cape Cod doctor who prescribed nearly one-third of the painkiller OxyContin in all of Massachusetts in 2004 lost his license to practice medicine yesterday as state regulators declared him ”an immediate and serious threat to the public safety and … Continue reading →

In our continual monitoring of the Ecuadorian blogosphere we have come across some amazing things, not least of which is "Manta y los bases de EE.UU." This one-issue gem is a blog by a local guy named Edgar Rios,dedicated to monitoring … Continue reading →

A very strange story came over the wire this weekend, involving an American hiring Colombians in Ecuador to work in Iraq: Quito/EFE – El ministro ecuatoriano de Gobierno, Mauricio Gendara, dijo que se investigara a EPI Security and Investigation, empresa … Continue reading →