Category Archives: Serious News

We knew it was too good to last. The very nature of one of our most visited (and quoted from) web sites is about to change, and with it the content of the Dowbrigade News.  Ever in search of new … Continue reading →

Why should Kim Jong Il fear us, when we can’t even secure the road from Baghdad to the airport? Paul Krugman in NYTimes Op-ed read the Downing St. Memo“This record is extremely sensitive. No further copies should be made. It … Continue reading →

KABUL, Afghanistan, May 11 – Four Afghan protesters were killed and more than 60 were injured today in the eastern city of Jalalabad in the worst anti-American demonstrations Afghanistan has seen in the three years since the fall of the … Continue reading →

      SAN FRANCISCO, May 9 – The incident seemed alarming enough: a breach of a Cisco Systems network in which an intruder seized programming instructions for many of the computers that control the flow of the Internet.        Now federal … Continue reading →

              FRANCISCO, May 9 – The incident seemed alarming enough: a breach of a         Cisco Systems network in which an intruder seized programming instructions         for many of the computers that control the flow of the Internet. … Continue reading →

The Boston Globe is doing a well-written and revealing series on the difficulties of installing Western-style democracy among moderate Muslims, and the contradictions in the US policy of supporting free elections. Today was the final installment, titled "Western Style Democracy … Continue reading →

The always amazing Rebecca MacKinnon points to an excellent essay by Xiao Qiang originally written for the Wall Street Journal, about the role of technology in China’s recent anti-Japanese protests. Rebecca opines: "The government certainly allowed these protests to happen, … Continue reading →

The scariest part of yesterday’s demonstration was not the anorexic anarchists or the facetious fascists, but the smooth and tightly controlled force displayed by Boston police. It was a coordinated and multi-divisional operation; horseback officers, uniformed patrolmen, motorcycle officers, tricked … Continue reading →

These stories just keep on coming. The number of people in our society with the knowledge to take advantage of these gaffes is growing exponentially as the young conscienceless whippersnappers who grew up with this stuff acquire the skills. In … Continue reading →

The red-hot rhetoric over Social Security on liberal talkradio network AIR AMERICA has caught the attention of the Secret Service, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. Government officials are reviewing a skit which aired on the network Monday evening — a … Continue reading →

John Tierney, in today’s New York Times, writes a delightful column on the truly paridigm-shifting study showing that the moderately overweight live longer than those of "normal" weight, who in turn live longer than the excessively thin. Should this be … Continue reading →

The destitution of a duly elected President is just another holiday in the wild, wacky world of Ecuadorian politics. From the Nwe York Times: BOGOTA, Colombia, April 20 – President Lucio Guti?rrez of Ecuador fled his presidential palace on Wednesday … Continue reading →