Category Archives: ESL Links

These California women win today’s "Triple Play Prize". They got a free bowl of colorful clam chowder, powerful medication for stress and anxiety from their doctors, and a nice fat settlement from the restaurant. You go, girls! Four women have settled … Continue reading →

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A gray and slushy Monday morning, as an intermittent spit of leftover snow drifts from the sky to join the light coating on the ground.  The last free Monday of our blessed break between semesters – the perfect opportunity to … Continue reading →

William Pfaff has an interesting take on the work of 18th century economist David Ricardo. Ricardo argues that in a true open market, wages will tend to stabilize at subsistence level; any lower and workers will start to die or … Continue reading →

SEATTLE (Reuters) – For Californians who can’t get enough of bodybuilder turned film star turned governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, a brewery in the neighboring state of Oregon is offering a new full-bodied beer labeled "The Governator." Portland-based MacTarnahan’s Brewing Co., which … Continue reading →

This is an image mosaic taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit’s panoramic camera made available by NASA on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2004, showing a view of Mars southwest of the rover’s landing site in the Gusev Crater. The landscape … Continue reading →

Tomorrow 11 AM Chou Chow City Dim Sum. For a graphic example of the incomplete education of your correspondent – we don’t know how to pronounce “gelatinous” in English, let alone Chinese – click on the photo. Picture and movie … Continue reading →

The Dowbrigade admits to being slightly jealous of bloggers so polemic or captivating that their every post spurs waves of comments, controversy and debate. Most of the comments we do get come either from our mother (Hi, Ma) or offended … Continue reading →

Police believe teenage pranksters are hacking into the wireless frequency of a US Burger King drive-through speaker to tell potential customers they are too fat for fast food. Policeman Gerry Scherlink said the pranksters told one customer who had just … Continue reading →

Police believe teenage pranksters are hacking into the wireless frequency of a US Burger King drive-through speaker to tell potential customers they are too fat for fast food. Policeman Gerry Scherlink said the pranksters told one customer who had just … Continue reading →

It’s easy to forget, ensconced as we are each in our own corner of the Blogosphere, the true depth and breath of this movement. Even when we reach out and link with far-flung blogs that somehow come to our attention, we … Continue reading →

Like almost everything else, cold is relative. Every fall, at the beginning of the semester, as soon as the temperature drops below 60 F, the Brazilian and Saudi students start to complain of the cold. But on the coldest January … Continue reading →