{"id":174,"date":"2005-04-15T19:25:12","date_gmt":"2005-04-15T23:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2005\/04\/15\/dowbrigadecom-returns\/"},"modified":"2005-04-15T19:25:12","modified_gmt":"2005-04-15T23:25:12","slug":"dowbrigadecom-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/04\/15\/dowbrigadecom-returns\/","title":{"rendered":"Dowbrigade.com Returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a4854'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td height=\"122\">\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dowbrigade.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/dbdotcombg.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"261\" hspace=\"8\" vspace=\"8\" border=\"0\" align=\"left\"><\/a>After<br \/>\n        a lapse of over two months, one it took me to become aware of the problem<br \/>\n        and another it took me to do something about it, our own personal domain,<br \/>\n        <a href=\"http:\/\/dowbrigade.com\">dowbrigade.com<\/a>, is back up and running.    <\/p>\n<p>As well as using this server space to host the shortcut to the <a href=\"http:\/\/dowbrigade.com\">Dowbrigade<br \/>\n        News<\/a> via dowbrigade.com, we store images, slide shows, subsidiary pages<br \/>\n        (see <a href=\"http:\/\/dowbrigade.com\/hireme.html\">Hire the Dowbrigade<\/a>) there and it processes several emails, including<br \/>\n        <a href=\"mailto:contact@dowbrigade.com\">contact@dowbrigade.com<\/a> and <a href=\"mailto:kvetch@dowbrigade.com\">kvetch@dowbrigade.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Apropos to nothing, but too trivial to merit it&#8217;s own posting, an anecdote<br \/>\n        from the Real Life (such as it is) of the Dowbrigade.<\/p>\n<p>This is why we love sports talk radio (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.weei.com\/\">WEEI<\/a>).<br \/>\n        While watching the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/sports\/baseball\/redsox\/articles\/2005\/04\/15\/sheffield_says_he_got_hit_in_face\/\">8th<br \/>\n        inning confrontation<\/a> between New York Yankees outfielder Gary Sheffield<br \/>\n        and a Boston Red Sox fan who may or may not have slugged him in the jaw<br \/>\n        as Sheff went to pick up a live ball near the wall live on TV last night,<br \/>\n        we were immediately relishing the low-rent trash-talking radio theater<br \/>\n        which we knew would blanket the airwaves in Boston today.&nbsp; As it<br \/>\n        has.<\/p>\n<p>The only time we listen to sports talk radio is in our car, the White<br \/>\n        Whale.&nbsp; Well, we were just out there, checking on something in the<br \/>\n      ashtray, and we got to listen to an irate female caller from Braintree:      <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Gentlemen, if I could please make on point that I haven&#8217;t heard anyone<br \/>\n        else make and that I think is highly prutinent.&quot;      <\/p>\n<p>Many guffaws ensued among the ex-jock hosts over the nervous caller&#8217;s<br \/>\n        melding of prudent and pertinent. Finally she caught on they were laughing<br \/>\n        at her and got hot.      <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Are you going to let me make my point?&quot;      <\/p>\n<p>They told her to go ahead.      <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Well, I just got the local paper here in Braintree, the Braintree &amp; Witham<br \/>\n      Times, and it says right on the front sports page that &quot;Sheffield&#8217;s confrontation<br \/>\n        with the philistine fan&quot;.&nbsp; What I want to know is this: if<br \/>\n        these people want to come to our country, don&#8217;t you think they should<br \/>\n        learn the proper rules of behavior at sporting events?&quot;      <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Ma&#8217;am, what do you think a philistine is?&quot;      <\/p>\n<p>&quot;Well, someone from Philistinia.&quot;      <\/p>\n<p>We swear to God&#8230;&#8230;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a lapse of over two months, one it took me to become aware of the problem and another it took me to do something about it, our own personal domain, dowbrigade.com, is back up and running. As well as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2005\/04\/15\/dowbrigadecom-returns\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1444],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-screeds"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}