Category Archives: ESL Links

Sounds painful. Actually, the Dowbrigade has always held that our culture’s open acceptance of the MALE nipple, while completely banning the FEMALE version from mainstream media, was an example of blatant sex discrimination. We sure hope those "Nipple stickers" hit … Continue reading →

Mass Facts: The 2000 Census estimated there were about 19,000 gay couples in Mass., and about 659,000 nationwide, or less than 1 percent of households. Provincetown is the community in Mass. with the highest rate of gay partners, about 15 … Continue reading →

Heard about the new German-Chinese restaurant? The food is great, but an hour later, you’re hungry for power… FRANKFURT (Reuters) – Hard working, dull and humorless? Germany, which has been saddled with negative stereotypes since World War II, is actually … Continue reading →

I thought Technorati was acting a bit pokey.   It says Dowbrigade hasn’t been updated in 5 days 16 hours and 45 minutes. I was beginning to wonder if my memories of the past five days were some sort of … Continue reading →

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Perhaps Santa should carry a disclaimer: "Don’t try this at home." It might have saved an Albuquerque teen from a lot of embarrassment. The teenage girl, 15, got lodged in a chimney trying to get into a … Continue reading →

Look a little nervous, don’t they? Who can blame them? Perhaps the least we can do is make sure their short lives are enjoyable and stress-free… Free-range turkeys make up only a small percentage of the nation’s overall production of … Continue reading →

Don’t tell Norma Yvonne, but I am falling in love with a Brazilian model. No, not one of my students, even worse, a girl I met on-line. Her name is Kaya. Fortunatly, or unfortunately as the case may be (I’m a … Continue reading →

One of the inevitable results of globalization, porous borders and the revolution in transportation is, if not a homogeniazation then at least a frothy interweaving of cultures. On one hand the wealthy begin to look more and more alike as … Continue reading →

A brain scan to identify racists? But how do we get the suspected racists to submit to scanning? And what do we do with the racists once we identify them? None of it made sense until the Dowbrigade noticed that … Continue reading →

THONG HAI HIN, Laos — The first time Sousath Phetrasy saw the huge stone jars scattered in a grassy field, he was entranced. Carefully avoiding old unexploded bombs in the ground, the Laotian businessman walked among hundreds of the ancient, … Continue reading →

It’s about time, after years of abuse, mistreatment and embarassment, that BU faculty, students and alumni found the spine to stand up to an incompetent administration. Many of the Dowbrigade’s colleagues are finally up in arms about the succcesive debacles … Continue reading →

Geez, high school kids nowadays have all the fun.  When the Dowbrigade was in high school we needed to use smoke signals or carrier pidgeons to spread the word about a hot party. Then they invented the telegraph, and the whole … Continue reading →