Monthly Archives: August 2004

A toy being sold from Florida to Boston depicts an airliner crashing into twin towers as the trophy for a candy cache. We are trying to track down any unrecalled packages, as these will certainly become collectors items.   It … Continue reading →

August 27, 2004 (Torino, Italy) – Scientists fear that emerging evidence may suggest a new outbreak of the Ebola virus, which, in addition to threatening human lives, would threaten tens of thousands of great apes "in this case gorillas and … Continue reading →

This sort of thing is obviously why the military and the administration are resisting public hearings or trials for these guys… GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba – A Yemeni prisoner confessed to being a member of Al Qaeda during a preliminary hearing … Continue reading →

The Dowbrigade and Norma Yvonne are thinking of driving down to NYC on Sunday to attend/cover the massive protest planned for the day before the opening of the RNC. Scheduled for the 41st anniversary of the legendary "March on Washington" … Continue reading →

We are currently working on a virtual import project with our foreign business students, in which they choose a product from their home market they think would sell well in Boston, and via the internet go through all of the … Continue reading →

It was not without some trepidation that the Dowbrigade waited in the bowels of Logan Airport for the arrival of AA flight 286 from San Jose, California. Aboard, at least in theory, were 12 Japanese undergraduate business majors who would … Continue reading →

Hotel heiress and reality TV star Paris Hilton today called for an end to the controversy over Sen. John Kerry’s Vietnam War service, warning that the continuing swift boat flap was distracting attention away from her. from the Borowitz Report

Terrorists will paralyze the Internet on August 26, a Russian expert in antivirus programs said on Tuesday. Speaking at a conference hosted by Russian Information Agency Novosti, Aleksandr Gostev from Kaspersky Labs said information on this terrorist attack was published … Continue reading →

Truth eventually eclipses fiction, even legendary folk tales like the stories of Babe, Paul Bunyons giant blue ox…… For a glimpse of what post-human athletes may look like beginning in the 2012 or 2016 Olympics, take a look at an … Continue reading →

Vs. Mystery solved.  The Olympic sport we chanced across the other day and couldn’t identify was none other than the ever-popular HANDBALL!! Obviously, the reason we had never seen it before is that when, in the past, we heard about … Continue reading →

What a shame we have to work during the Olympics. Missing so many events is making us think seriously for the first time about getting a TiVo.  On the other hand, by flipping through the 4 or 5 channels in … Continue reading →

One of our favorite theories of the inevitability of Blogging holds that eventually, whenever something noteworthy or memorable happens in the world there will be a blogger nearby to witness and record. Well, Saturday it was our turn, and although … Continue reading →