Category Archives: Wacky News

Blame it on our upbringing. Too much breast feeding, or not enough, but regular readers of the Dowbrigade may have noted a certain fixation with the human breast. In particular, we are deeply distressed by the discrepency in public acceptance … Continue reading →

Some wireless users sneak in their own food with their laptops. Others buy one cup of coffee at 9 a.m. and surf the Net until closing time. And the truly audacious sit for hours without making any pretense of a … Continue reading →

The hip-hop hottie who bears the moniker Notorious K.I.M. looked more like her rap mentor, the Notorious B.I.G., when she was released from a federal prison in Philadelphia yesterday after serving a 10-month stint for lying about a shooting outside … Continue reading →

Rapper Lil’ Kim is now home from prison after being released early Monday (July 3) from a federal detention center. The MC, (born Kimberly Jones) carried a balloon and a bouquet of white roses as she walked out of the … Continue reading →

The police have arrested a Penacook woman who advertises herself online as an "Amazing Goddess" and charged her with prostitution. According to the police, Suzan Belanger, 38, was running a prostitution business called Amazing Alternatives from 324 Village St. in … Continue reading →

New York, NY (June 28, 2006)–In a country known more for conflict than conservation, a joint effort by the government of Afghanistan and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) and funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has … Continue reading →

PETA activists are cracking the whip on Springfield-based Merriam-Webster, demanding that the definition of "circus" be rewritten to label the big top as cruel to "captive" animal performers. The dictionary currently defines a circus as "an arena often covered by … Continue reading →

Students in Chile have staged a naked protest against poor quality education. A group of 25 college students in Valparaiso stripped off in the main Sotomayor Square, Las Ultimas Noticias reports. The students painted their bodies with protest slogans and … Continue reading →

A day after Whole Foods Market stopped the sale of live lobsters in its stores, local chefs and wholesalers brushed off worries that New England’s iconic crustacean would go the way of fur The upscale natural foods chain said that … Continue reading →

SOUTHWICK, Mass. –For the fifth time in a week, a stash of drugs was found in a cabinet purchased at a Home Depot store in Massachusetts. A plumber in Southwick discovered 40 pounds of marijuana and three kilograms of cocaine … Continue reading →

MIAMI — A British research firm recently combed 25,000 DNA samples searching for a modern descendant of Genghis Khan from outside the Mongolian warlord’s ancient empire. They found one: a University of Miami accounting professor. Tom Robinson, a 48-year-old Palmetto … Continue reading →

KATHMANDU (Reuters) – The head of the Nepal Mountaineering Association urged the government Saturday to take action against a sherpa who reportedly stripped on top of Mount Everest. The Himalayan Times had reported Friday that the Nepali climbing guide, whose … Continue reading →