Category Archives: ESL Links

Portland, Ore. – It may not be long before you hear airport security screeners ask, "Do you plan on hijacking this plane?" A U.S. company using technology developed in Israel is pitching a lie detector small enough to fit in … Continue reading →

Fear of mad cow disease hasn’t kept customers from eating the deep-fried cow brain sandwiches served Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2004, at the Hilltop Inn in Evansville, Ind. The delicacy is traced back to a time when southern Indiana newcomers from … Continue reading →

The Michael Jackson Innocence Song from Adam Curry

Josh Marshall over at Talking Points went up to New Hampshire today to see how the Dean Team is taking their setback. For the next week the three ring political circus which our Presidential primary process has become will be … Continue reading →

The switch went off in the Dowbrigade’s mind just about when Howard Dean let loose with his primal scream, after screeching out the names of all of the states he was expecting to win. There was a fevered, ferrel gleam … Continue reading →

The Dowbrigade attempts to stay on top of fashion…. PARIS (AFP) – British designer John Galliano, the golden boy of Christian Dior, brought ancient Egypt back to life for the Paris fashion crowd, offering a dazzling couture collection for spring-summer … Continue reading →

from Blogt.nl

January 19, 2004 – Undeterred by the spectacular failure of their Beagle Martian explorer, which lost contact with controllers during the descent to the surface of the Red Planet, the European Space agency is preparing for a descent onto one … Continue reading →

(photo from Marc ter Bogt) London’s Daily Telegraph today published a scathing indictment of the Dowbrigade’s chosen profession. Within the much maligned and downtrodden field of Education, the teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL or ESL or … Continue reading →

As the race for the Democratic presidential nomination heats up, it is becoming increasingly clear to the Dowbrigade that what you see is NOT what you get.  The mainstream media, which built Howard Dean up into an unlikely but refreshing … Continue reading →

JERUSALEM – Psychic Uri Geller defended his friend Michael Jackson (together, above) on Sunday, saying the pop singer denied under hypnosis three years ago that he had sexually abused children. Geller, best known for his claimed telekinetic ability to bend … Continue reading →

The Dowbrigade loves his aggregator. It is his constant companion, his window on not only the Blogosphere, but on much of what goes on in the world outside of his immediate presence. But we lust for more. Separate bins for … Continue reading →