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Monthly Archives: March 2007
Whitey Bulger Busted in Berlin
MILAN— Infamous Boston mobster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger was arrested Wednesday night at the Heavenly Acres trailer park in Milan where he has been hiding for the past three years. Striking in the middle of the night, FBI agents set up … Continue reading
Posted in Wacky News
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High Holy Days
In Israel they won’t be passing many dubbies this Passover. The country’s pro-pot Green Leaf Party ("Aleh Yarok") has sent a mass e-mail to its members warning that hemp-related products may be a no-no for those who keep Kosher during … Continue reading
Posted in Friends and Family
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The Dog Ate It, Doc
A Chinese woman escaped jail after she cut off her husband’s penis and threw it out of the window. The man drove himself to hospital – but doctors couldn’t reattach the organ as it had been eaten by a dog, … Continue reading
Posted in Wacky News
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Geek Conference Head Denies Terror List Link
As previously reported, the Dowbrigade spent the past weekend at BarCamp Boston 2, the "unconference" for tech types this time held at MIT’s Stata Center. The GQ (Geek Quotient) was off the chart, and we stood little chance of understanding … Continue reading
Posted in Technology
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Does Rover Know She Has a Name?
While perusing the Sunday paper, an odd scrap often catches in the old cranial craw, requiring rumination and later regurgitation. Case in point, from that paragon of American journalism, Parade Magazine: Nancy Cassidy, from Falls Church, VA, asks Ms. Smartypants, … Continue reading
Posted in Weird Science
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Y J-OnE Kant Rede
We’ve been hearing this crap for far too long. American education is going to the dogs. Test scores are down across the board, in Reading and Writing and Rithmatic. On a list of Average National Test Scores the US is … Continue reading
Posted in Prose Screeds
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Half-Assed Belly Dancer Sues Doc
A German belly dancer has been awarded
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OED Claims to have Invented WIKIs – 150 years ago!
LONDON — If you think "wiki" doesn’t sound like English, you are right. But it’s English now. This word born on the Pacific Island of Hawaii finally got an entry into the latest edition of the online Oxford English Dictionary … Continue reading
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Say Goodbye to Radio Free Interent
Music maven and Berkman blogger Sooz made the Globe yesterday, on the front page of the Business section. While this was not where we expected to find Sooz in the paper (Local? National? Arts? Sidekick?) it introduced us to a … Continue reading
Spring in the Air – a Waft of Teargas
Local action in Boston concerning the Homeland Security Gestapo-style raid on the defense-contractor leather factory in New Bedford seems to be percolating up from the grass-roots level. The Dowbrigade position on immigration is that people ought to be able to … Continue reading
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Beer Cat – Watch the Spray
RALEIGH, N.C. — When John Cornwell graduated from Duke University last year, he landed a job as software engineer in Atlanta but soon found himself longing for his college lifestyle. So the engineering graduate built himself a contraption to help … Continue reading
Symptomatic of Steroid Abuse?
Captain America, a Marvel Entertainment superhero, is fatally shot by a sniper in the 25th issue of his eponymous comic, which arrived in stores yesterday. The assassination ends the sentinel of liberty’s fight for right, which began in 1941. The … Continue reading