Daily Archives: April 15, 2004

It was eerily appropriate that the very first question in President Bush’s press conference the other night was about the Iraq-Vietnam analogy. Bush stared straight into the camera and declared, of course, that there was no similarity at all between … Continue reading →

Erectile dysfunction advertising has changed considerably since a somber Bob Dole explained the medical condition in a 1999 ad paid for by Pfizer Inc. (PFE), maker of market leader Viagra. Levitra’s initial ads, which began last fall, were criticized by … Continue reading →

Don’t you just hate it when well-intentioned attempts to automate clever little features of your tools make it impossible to configure them the way you want? Once the Dowbrigade made the move to the Ecuadorian ISP he will be using … Continue reading →

MADISON, Wis. — There is more to beauty than meets the stranger’s eye, according to results from three studies examining the influence of non-physical traits on people’s perception of physical attractiveness. The results, which show that people perceive physical appeal … Continue reading →

Police in Germany had a hard time returning a little boy to his family after he told them his name was "Mummy’s boy". The boy, aged two, was seen trying to cross a street on his own at a red … Continue reading →

Apparently the markets are all in an uproar over the prospect that inflation is about to rear its ugly head. All we can say is, it’s about time. It seems clear to the Dowbrigade, from an intuitive layman’s point of … Continue reading →