Doug leaves no bone unturned to solve ancient mysteries.

All-terrain vehicle racing legend Digger Doug deserves a minute of your time. And he's got T-shirts to die for.

Do you ever stop to think that God is almost Doug spelled backward? I was also thrilled to learn that God is this Doug's co-pilot.

Some people say this risk-taking Doug does for sculpture what Dr. Seuss does for book illustrations, even though he says he's out of his "psychedelic period" now.

You've got to break some eggs to make an omelet, says an appropriately named Doug who warns of the coming monsoon that will also green the Arizona desert.

Doug leads fellow artists in act of creative disobedience. City still wants to charge them to set up easels and paint, or face police action.

Archeologist Doug considers mysterious "weathered old wooden chest sealed with a rusty padlock," wonders what's inside.

Enough nuts in California, reports Doug.

Public policy expert Doug says, "Slogans are all very well on bumper stickers, but they are often not good in legislation, where clarity of meaning is essential." Bumper sticker makers probably aren't listening.

Mississippi merrymakers trash beach, good-guy Doug is among the "Mad Dog" volunteers who clean it up. And who says they don't publish the good news?

Truck-drivin' Doug ditches gravel-laden big rig to spare the life of idiot driver who cut him off. Investigation continues.

Family-values and tourism hot-shot Doug says his controversial televangelist brother has been called by God and deserves the tithes he demands from church members, finds nothing fishy in mixing religion and politics. Others disagree.

Dear Dog Lady,

Doug, doting dog devotee, demands Dog Lady's dog food directive. Dog Lady deems decision Doug's choice, declines to deliver poop.

Doug, why not just sing the sad country-western songs instead of acting them out? (Scroll down for surprisingly long - and apparently incomplete - roster of Doug's offspring.)

Down-under Doug calculates the wages of sin.

Doug at the chaotic center of golf's quiet storm

Doug asks good question, listens to answers. Of interest to concerned Dougs everywhere.

Makes me dizzy just thinking about this Doug's accomplishments in "virgin ascents and pushing the edge of the craft."

Dear Momma Mouth: I have been dating “Doug” for two years now....

You just can't keep a good Doug down. After mental illness and homelessness, the comedian San Franciscans call "Dougzilla" has got his act together again, reports the San Francisco Chronicle.

File under Makes Me Feel All Warm and Runny Inside: Brad Pitt and his little brother - yes! - Doug let their nieces paint their nails, put makeup on them and generally offer themselves up as a "personal play gym" for the girls.

What's with the sudden rash of Doug-related fishing stories? This Doug admits he's a "hook and bobber kind of guy."

This Doug has a great fish story to tell.

Doug defies mountain lion and lives to tell the wagging tail.

Canadian Doug serenades Texas Granny.

Hoffman tops Manmiller in battle of Dougs at Big Diamond

You go, space cadet Doug!

The name Douglas means "dark blue" or "blood river" in Celtic, and comes from a Scottish surname. "Douglas was originally a river name, the site of a particularly bloody battle," says The Etymology of First Names.

Doug Harper's writing a blog.

Doug Starn and twin brother Mike, artists, "see the cosmos in its moths and trees."

Some parents say they believe and support Doug Grosier, as the investigation continues and Doug remains on paid administrative leave.

Doug Crosier and his wife have denied the pot was theirs, in circumstances that, as described in this article, suggest that the contraband may have been planted...planted in their baggage, I mean, of course it was originally planted in the ground...

An airport search allegedly uncovered a couple of marijuana cigarettes in Doug Crosier's luggage last week. A 30-year employee of a local school district, Crosier is principal at the appropriately-named Grassland Middle School.

Doug Farah's new book documents al-Qaeda money laundering in the Sierra Leone diamond trade.

A bright spot in the darkness of the daily news: this Doug led a team of scientists whose discoveries regarding cell death could "lead to the development of new treatments or cures for some cancers and autoimmune diseases."

A bright spot in the darkness of the daily news: this Doug led a team of scientists whose discoveries regarding cell death could "lead to the development of new treatments or cures for some cancers and autoimmune diseases."

Yo, Doug, you're supposed to teach the boys how to drink like gentlemen, and let them discover the Skid Row method on their own.

Add this Doug to the lengthening list of hagiographers reminding us they used to work for President Reagan. Somehow I don't think reading Alexander Cockburn's scorching assessment, Ronald Reagan in Truth and Fiction (and Yes, He Doomed the Crew of the Challenger), is going to change this Doug's mind.

Watch out! Doug brings out the heavy artillery

Sorry to hear Lt. Doug Dyer is willing to trade Constitutional rights for a phony sense of post-9/11 security, in the Pentagon's ongoing "Big Brother" Total Information Awareness personal liberty rip-off.

"Doug Gehrig isn't worried about the rising cost of gasoline. He just hopes people keep buying french fries at his 12 McDonald's restaurants in Calcasieu Parish. That's because Doug owns a Mercedes diesel that burns vegetable oil." Doug may have gotten the idea here.

Still an embarrassment to the name: Douglas Feith.

More uplifting is this double Doug delight, Doug Schneider reports on Doug Drum's successful Alaskan salmon processing operation.

Elsewhere, Tony Award-winning I Am My Own Wife author Doug Wright says he's writing the libretto for a new musical called Grey Gardens, based on the eponymous 1975 Albert and David Maysles documentary which followed the lives of the eccentric Edith Bouvier Beale and her daughter, Edith B. Beale Jr., reclusive relatives of Jackie Kennedy on a seedy Long Island estate.

I'm back.

White powder closes Topeka post office. Topeka Police spokesman Doug Eisenbarth doesn't know what it is, but it seems safe to assume it isn't cocaine.

Eat at Doug's

Stay away from the long pig, too.

Speaking of God, preparing for war
JUAN O. TAMAYO
Knight Ridder, 19 May 2003

CAMP COMMANDO, Kuwait - On the brink of war, chaplain Doug Dowling is thinking about the sermon he will deliver today to American leathernecks in his sandbagged chapel a few miles from the Iraqi border.

He will urge the Marines to treat enemy bodies with respect, to look away from the grotesque mutilations of war. He will tell them the war is not about getting even for 9/11. And he will tell them that amid the horror of war they may find the beauty of valor and comradeship and, perhaps, the presence of God.

A stocky Navy lieutenant with a blond mustache and bare-walls haircut, the 42-year-old Milwaukee native looks like a Marine in his digital desert camouflage uniform, floppy "boony" hat and military web gear.

But he wears a tiny black metal cross on his shirt and speaks with the fervor of a former Navy warplane navigator who was stationed in Kuwait during the Iraq-Iran war in the 1980s, who fought in the 1991 Gulf War and then became a pastor for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

"There is a God who is a warrior, but God is the same always," Dowling said. "The God you believe in as you may go to war is that same God you believed in yesterday and the day before, so nothing changes for me on this day."

Dowling has baptized 32 people here, including a Navy officer he met briefly in a military base parking lot and christened with water from a plastic bottle.

He will hold one more service today in his tiny chapel with a cross on top, really a bunker dug halfway into the desert sand and then sandbagged for protection.

"I will pray for our men and for theirs, too," he said. "And I will pray especially for peace."

"It's really about the mind games," Doug Walker, co-president of the Toronto-based World Rock Scissors Paper Society, which sponsored the annual contest, told the Associated Press, according to a story in today's Kansas City Star. "There's a lot of trash talking and mental intimidation."

You might also say that about the diplomacy of the US War Party in recent months, days, hours.

Sad days for another Doug...

[...] In televised comments memorializing the shuttle crew, Allen, R-Va., described a telephone conversation with the brother of mission specialist David Brown, an Arlington County native. Brown's brother Doug could not be reached for comment. Yesterday, Doug Brown sat in the first row of a national memorial at Johnson, along with his mother, father, two cousins and 22 other family members of Columbia's crew.

Just a few hours after the service, Allen spoke from the Senate floor. His comments were broadcast on C-SPAN2. According to Allen, Doug Brown told the senator that in private e-mail messages during the mission, his astronaut brother said the crew was "concerned" about the shuttle's left wing. Allen spokeswoman Carrie Cantrell confirmed that the senator stood by his recollection of the conversation.

In the conversation, Doug Brown said the crew photographed the left wing, which was struck shortly after launch by a piece of foam insulation that fell from one of the shuttle's external fuel tanks, according to Allen. Allen said Doug Brown told him he never received any such photos.

NASA "is trying to track what if any e-mails were sent to the family," said Jacobs. The agency is examining NASA computer equipment to see if the e-mails can be tracked, he said. NASA officials investigating the accident have said engineers initially dismissed the insulation incident, but in hindsight are reconsidering whether it might have damaged the craft and contributed or led to the catastrophe. Crew members were told about the insulation during the mission, according to NASA, but they were not alarmed by the falling debris, which had occurred on earlier missions.

"All indications that we had from the crew was that they were not concerned about the insulation strike and if there is new information suggesting otherwise we would be interested in hearing from the family," said Jacobs. [...]

from:
Allen: Crew worried about wing damage
Richmond Times-Dispatch, 5 February 2003

Condolences, on a very sad day for Doug Haviland, and all who have been touched by the Columbia tragedy.

"Just Friday night, Doug Haviland says he read an e-mail from space from his niece Laurel Salton Clark. 'She was thrilled by the whole thing,' said Haviland, 76, of Ames, Iowa, where Clark was born. 'She loved the views. She said she could see lightning flash over the Pacific Ocean.' His wife, Betty, added, 'She talked about the wonders she saw up there and how proud she was to represent her country and how blessed she felt to have this experience.' The family was on an e-mail network, where they would circulate her messages from space. It turned out to be their last message from her. Clark, 41, was one of seven astronauts on board the space shuttle Columbia yesterday. It was her first mission. A commander in the U.S. Navy and a naval flight surgeon, she was part of a crew working on more than 80 experiments including studies of astronaut health and safety.

'It's a tragedy,' said Haviland, who lost his son Timothy in the World Trade Center disaster. "

from:
'The Seven Souls We Mourn Today'
By Jamie Herzlich and Patricia Kitchen
February 2, 2003
Newsday

It's difficult not to feel anger on learning that the White House, according to the British newspaper, The Observer apparently ignored safety warnings about the Space Shuttle as recently as last fall.

A Doug Mood: what I'm in today, and every day, but this Doug expresses it with Energizer Bunny energy. Says the Great Falls Tribune: "the new speaker of the Republican-controlled House [...] likes to test himself -- and he's spent no small amount of time doing it. The 59-year-old Mood has run in five marathons and competed in several triathlons, the grueling event where competitors swim a mile, ride 50 miles on a bicycle and run the final six miles. He plays and composes music on a trio of guitars and also plays or has played the accordion, saxophone, violin and mandolin. As a skier, he pushed himself to become better so he could ski with his expert-skier son."

The wolf -- known as No. 2 -- who led that species to successful re-establishment in Yellowstone has died, pushed aside by the next generation that No. 2 made possible, says Doug Smith, Yellowstone's lead wolf biologist, in a Billings Gazette story published today. "He was not a strong presence but a solid one," Doug told the newspaper. "He was a great hunter and a great provider for his pups. He did his job. [...] He was a mammoth wolf with one of the biggest, bushiest tails I've ever seen. But he was old, 8 years old, and a step slower."

It's always DougDay at Doug Bay -- that's what the locals call Douglaston Bay, "which overlooks the marshes of Little Neck Bay and is within walking distance of the Long Island Rail Road," according to a story today in the local Times Ledger newspaper.

Forget your proverbial sticky wicket, this Doug is dealing with a real one, over there in New Zealand. "Head groundsman Doug Strachan says bad weather has meant they have lost two days of preparation on the wicket and play will not start before the umpires' inspection at 2pm," NZOOM.com reports today.

Doug Anderson -- he's the County Administrator down in Florida's St. Lucie County -- says $8 million is expected to be available in the 2003-04 fiscal year to build a new housing pod at the Rock Road jail, according to today's Tribune. And it sounds like a good deal all around. The Trib reports that "an extra pod could pay for itself if the county made enough money housing federal prisoners," and that "The county could reportedly make an annual profit of more than $1.8 million if it installed 100 extra beds to rent to the federal government."

....Not to mention being able to grow all those new pod people....

One Doug's making his chocolate dream come true, in Bucks County. Soon, they'll be going nuts, too, along with "marzipan, old-fashioned hard candy, chocolate-covered espresso beans and gummy candy," sez thrill-seeking Doug.

Let's hear it for Doug Niesen and wife Jan. Jan came to the Lord in 1961 and started praying for Doug's salvation. Jesus came into Doug's life about 15 years ago and took away his desire for alcohol and nicotine. Doug and Jan recently completed eight weeks of lay ministry work in remote Alaskan villages, living their faith. "Doug said he’d be ready to go back to Alaska on a moment’s notice because their experience there was so meaningful," reports The Pine Journal of their home town, Cloquet, Minnesota. 'The people there love the Lord, they love to sing and they’re just so hungry for the Word,' he said. 'We will be going back– the good Lord willing – because he has certainly blessed us, and to God be the glory. And if Jan and I can do it, anybody can, because we do not have any special skills and we only made it through high school. Maybe it will be an encouragement to other people in Cloquet to do something like this.' "

Amen, Doug.

Today brings a double-Doug-twist with Bushes shaken lightly and not stirred. Doug Racine received a letter from Presidential bro' Jeb congratulating him on his victory in the Vermont gubernatorial race, but Bush was blowing smoke in the wrong man's ear. Jim Douglas, who ran Slayer of Evil-doers' Vermont Presidential campaign, actually won the election.

Parents are up in arms because Santa Fe High School band director Doug Morris told band members some dirty jokes, reports KTRK TV in Houston, Texas. A dozen parents wanted him fired but the school board is sending Doug for sensititivity training instead. No word yet on where the parents will go to remedy their humor deficiency. Nobody's laughing in another sensitive spot down south, either -- Washington State Transportation Secretary Doug MacDonald discovered that the hard way after he declared, "We are the Mississippi of roads," according to the Seattle Daily Journal of Commerce. It turns out that Mississippi recently decided to spend nearly $9 billion on roads while Washington voters rejected an $8 billion road construction program. Still, it's hard to beat a good Mississippi joke. My personal favorite, heard frequently while growing up in yet another southern state: There are a lot of dumb people in Louisiana, but the dumbest are the ones who moved there from Mississippi.

Walmart or bald eagle habitat? St. Lucie County County Administrator, Doug Anderson is working with a real estate developer to make both possible, says the Press Journal of Vero Beach, Florida. If Flagler Development balks at donating the land necessary to protect the bald eagle nesting site, Walmart can always plaster some pictures of the endangered species on the Web site touting its commitment to the environment.

Dr. Doug Travis knows what's needed, but is the head of Western General Hospital's urology unit just pissing in the wind with his ideas on how to improve health Down Under?

President (that's got a nice ring to it) Doug Bennet banned chalk talk on sidewalks at Wesleyan University, because of "explicit sexual messages" he said. No word yet on what the anonymous chalksters suggested that President Doug do.

Doug James confirms it, in today's Dispatch Online: "The municipality is experiencing an increase in the theft of guard rails from bridges," says the acting director of engineering services, referring to the Buffalo City area of East London in South Africa. Doug failed to speculate why but does observe that the thefts endanger the lives of pedestrians and motorists. Meanwhile, a "concerned citizen" told authorities that he caught a man in the act of smashing guard rails into small pieces near a bridge. The man said he was going to sell it as scrap metal because he was hungry.

The good news, according to Doug Nyman, is that the trans-Alaska oil pipeline survived a 7.9 magnitude earthquake on November 3. The temblor "struck Alaska's interior, producing a 145-mile-long crack across the landscape and sending boats bobbing on lakes more than 3,000 miles away in Louisiana," reports today's San Diego Union Tribune. Doug was the pipeline's seismic design coordinator from 1973 to 1977.

The bad news is that we still have to worry about the oil spill that might happen if an even bigger quake shakes the pipeline, which crosses the Denali fault -- all the more so, given the wishful thinking that seems to have informed the pipeline's construction in the first place. "Before Nov. 3, seismologists didn't think the Denali fault could produce a really big earthquake, even though it had historically been very active, said Roger , state seismologist for the Geophysical Institute of the University of Alaska," reports the newspaper. "Indeed it was a sleeping giant so far," Hansen said.

Doug Millroy worries about wastewater, in Sault Ste. Marie.

This Doug fights molds and flesh-eating fungus, like the one that attacked Mark Tatum's face.

Doug Day .... 'nuff said.

Another Sad Doug and Dog Story

Here comes another Doug, helping to pick up the pieces. This time it's Doug Odney, of Calgary's Foothills Hospital, which treated a stabbing victim after this horrific scene, according to today's Edmonton Sun: "A stabbing victim was traumatized when his attacker ripped apart his pet puppy with a knife, snapped its bones, and left it screaming in such agony, police had to shoot it dead." Said Detective Ryan Dobson, "We don't know if the savage attack on the dog was by way of revenge, or whether it was stabbed as the victim held it in his arms when he was being stabbed."

This Doug knows how to start a stampede: lock the doors to a room that people are required to enter, and punish the few who don't manage to arrive on time. Funny thing is, that doesn't sound so strange in this double-bind world: "Come here! I don't want you!"

Doug Pray sounds like good advice, to me at least. That he's made a documentary film called "Scratch" -- released in 2001, now available on DVD and video -- is cool, too.

When they're nice, the police are great, aren't they?

Doug declared outstanding officer

Too bad they're not all like Doug; another headline:

Police brutality is top concern of NAACP, in the happy Hub City of the Cajun Country, no less.

Today, a NY Daily News headline says it all:

Stray cats? Drown 'em, sez state official

"....Biologist Doug Little suggested holding the furry animals' heads under water for several minutes in a telephone call that was secretly taped by the radical group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals...."

Still a few rough edges on that compassionate conservative approach (scroll all the way down to the bottom of that linked page), it seems.

New Zealand health ministry spokesman, Dr Doug Lush warned travelers of a typhoid outbreak in Samoa -- watch out for unsanitary food or water. And, when visiting Moscow, be careful of the air you breathe if you go to the theater.

Somebody said, "America just elected Lula president."

Not Bush's America. Watch closely as Bush and the CIA use tested tactics to try and take Lula down, to protect the profits of the multinationals. (One Doug recently observed that US and European drug companies are pushing hard to stop generic drug manufacturers in Brazil and elsewhere, to keep them from selling low-cost knock-offs of their anti-HIV/AIDS drugs, profits a higher priority than health, apparently).

Or, will the south rise again?


A Christmas Greeting
From a Northern Star-Group to a Southern, 1889-'90

by Walt Whitman

Welcome, Brazilian brother--thy ample place is ready:
A loving hand--a smile from the north--a sunny instant hail!
(Let the future care for itself, where it reveals its troubles,
impedimentas,
Ours, ours the present throe, the democratic aim, the
acceptance and the faith;)
To thee to-day our reaching arm, our turning neck--to thee
from us the expectant eye,
Thou cluster free! thou brilliant lustrous one! thou, learning
well,
The true lesson of a nation's light in the sky,
(More shining than the Cross, more than the Crown,)
The height to be superb humanity.


...Only a dream in Whitman's day, yet this Doug dares to dream it still....

Feeling sad today for the unfortunate victims in Moscow, and for all people who suffer in violent conflicts around the world. How many innocents will we kill in our sometimes well-intentioned but misguided and oxymoronic attempts to use violence to stop violence? Knowing that hundreds of thousands of people marched against war yesterday -- one of the many non-violent tactics available -- blunts the pain's edge a little bit. Not much but a little. I wonder if it helps to make a ritual entertainment of violence, as this Doug does, to the applause and delight of many: do we discharge the unhealthy tensions that way, or in glorifying violence do we set the stage for more?

Today's lesson on keeping things in perspective and wisely choosing what battles to fight: No use crying over spilled...corn, says one Doug after the collapse of a storage bin wall and $3 million in damage. But another Doug -- who runs his own investment firm, no less -- is out to get the flim-flam man who scammed him for $15.

An arc for the day: The appropriately named Doug Gross pledges to push more alien genes into those Iowa cornfields, urging a worried public to trust the "experts" as human hubris pushes us ever deeper into the myth that we can somehow control (vanity!) life's wellsprings, while artist Doug Aitken "takes us through a dramatic presentation of Nature, as if to allude to the power of God's creation, leaving us with a strong sense of awe and foreboding."

This Doug strikes gold Down Under, that Doug worries about money in Mississippi. But -- and this is quite a leap, I know, chalk it up to the mood I'm in this morning -- all the gold in the world won't help these victims of not-smart-enough US weapons.

Well, doh! Doug...

Alaska's Department of Fish and Game appears to be moving away from a policy of conserving game for hunters to kill and towards protecting wildlife so people can enjoy watching and learning about the animals, non-violently. "It is a change," Doug Larsen, deputy director of the agency, tells Kenai Peninsula Online. Now, if we could just get the U.S Department of Defense to start focusing on how to keep people alive, instead of how to kill them....

Doug Aylen is evicting 8,000 dead people from their graves in South Australia's largest cemetery, "so plots can be reused," Doug says. Lease-holders will have a chance to renew expiring licenses and continue to rest in peace, however. "The cemetery's chief executive officer Doug Aylen said a list of affected graves would be published in newspaper ads," according to Australia's Herald Sun...but Doug isn't saying how he can be so certain that the dead people in question read the daily newspaper.

Grow up, Doug Grow. You can do better than to smirk and gloat and vicariously pummel Sara Jane Olson as she sits in jail, railroaded in the wake of 11 September 2001, victim (many people believe) of the culture wars that have split the U.S. of A. since the '60s.

"What would Jesus do, if he were alive today?" asks Doug Lapp, in the current issue of SojoMail, answering somebody who would call God's wrath down upon the current enemy-of-the-week as perceived by Bush & Co. "Would he choose to live a comfortable life as a citizen of the world's most powerful country? Would he join the masses by holding up this country's financial dominance as a clear sign of God's blessing? Would he put his faith in building and maintaining military supremacy in order to secure his own peace and prosperity? I think not. There might well be valid geopolitical reasons for waging war in Iraq. However, to claim God's blessing on this action is overreaching."

"Montgomery County, Md., Executive, Doug Duncan has attended every funeral held so far for the victims of the Washington-area sniper, and he has two more this weekend," but some critics wonder if he's grandstanding for political reasons. Cynical stuff, but perhaps not as cynical as people who worry about the U.S. military taking over domestic police duties, as Bush/Ashcroft move us ever closer to Big Brother....

Doug Deegan's Deer, Diseased

It's "chronic wasting disease" and it sounds nasty.

The Milwaukee Channel.com, 17 October 2002

Two Dougs Worrying About Wastewater

Faced with the need to take quick action to comply with state requirements, the Galt City Council is scheduled to consider short- and long-term solutions to the city's wastewater disposal problems tonight. "Immediate action to address the lack of disposal capacity for next summer is crucial," Public Works Director Doug Gault said in a memo to the City Council.
Lodi News-Sentinel, 16 October 2002

"Deputy City Manager Doug Worden said the city has $135,000 budgeted this year for an emergency power generator for a wastewater lift station on Market Street as well as $350,000 for repiping the lift station in conjunction with the ongoing Hawkeye sewer separation project. "
The Hawk Eye, 15 October 2002

Doug Locks Garbage Up Tight

"Waste Management of Alaska put its new bear-resistant cans through what was to be a final test Monday, with help from Alaska Zoo black bears. Mavis and Zayk ate out of the containers over the weekend, and on Monday they were given the locked container with their favorite foods inside. After thrashing the can for about 20 minutes, above, Zayk popped the lid and got his reward, left. Doug Daniels of WMA said the company will fine-tune the locking mechanism and wheels and offer the cans to customers on the Hillside and Girdwood in April. "

Anchorage Daily News, 15 October 2002

Doug Watches Big Ice Cube Melt

The ice breaker, Auruora Australis, is heading south on a five-week marine science expedition, the first Australian voyage of this season's Antarctic program. The ship will drop about 15 people off on Macquarie Island to work on summer wildlife programs, before heading to the Antarctic. The voyage leader, Doug Thost, says among other things it is hoped to study an iceberg which broke off from the Ross Ice Shelf several years ago.

"It is 90 kilometres long, 40 kilometres wide and we're hoping to put an automatic weather station on that and also we're looking at how fast these things melt," he said.


ABC News Online, 14 October 2002

Armed with Plastic, Doug Subdues Crazed Biker

"[...] Finally around 9:15 p.m., police were able to get a clear view of Kokolios inside the garage and used a Sage gun to bring him down. The gun shoots a non-lethal plastic cylinder about the size of a golf ball, American Canyon Police Chief Doug Koford said. When Kokolios hit the ground, officers rushed the garage and took him into custody. But he didn't go willingly, Koford said. 'He was very belligerent and uncooperative. He was yelling at everyone, including the time he was talking to the negotiators,' Koford said. Kokolios had to be subdued in a body wrap, which restrained his legs and arms, Koford said. During the time Kokolios was inside the garage, he started his Harley-Davidson motorcycle. Koford said several times Kokolios attempted to crash the motorcycle through the door, but was unable to do so because law enforcement had secured the door. After he was taken down, Kokolios was taken by ambulance to Queen of the Valley Hospital were he was treated for the cut to his arm and carbon monoxide inhalation from the motorcycle fumes. "

NapaNews.com, 13 October 2002

"University of Alberta professor Doug Aoki thinks you are unattractive. ....Aoki, a practitioner of an obscure branch of psychoanalysis called Lacanian theory, delivered a presentation at the university Friday which focused on an ugly truth: Not everyone can be beautiful or brilliant, and most of us fall into the great mass of mediocrity."
The Edmonton Journal
October 12, 2002

Another Doug making the rest of us look bad:

"Republican Senate candidate Doug Forrester of New Jersey, fearful of almost certain defeat, is attacking his opponent, Frank Lautenberg, on the grounds that no gun safety law could have prevented the current killing spree that had traumatized the nation's capital. In fact, of course, Forrester knows absolutely nothing about the circumstances of the horror that has gripped the Washington area. Nobody does. except for forensic experts who are on the case -- and they're not talking, least of all to Doug Forrester. But that doesn't stop the desperate GOP candidate from exploiting the horror, and using it as a pretext to spout the National Rifle Association's gun-nut line. Doug Forrester has now established himself as the most despicable, indecent Republican candidate running for office this year -- and that's saying something! How dare he exploit the pain and anxiety of Americans in order to improve his poll ratings?"

from:
Media Whores Online
11 October 2002

Doug Martsch gets bored fast, moves on

Sorry, Doug. "Man bites dog," now that's news.

DOUG SAHM DAY
2pm
Sunday, October 13
Camargo Park
5500 Castroville

Doug Sahm makes beautiful music in heaven, no matter how sloppy things get on earth.

A DAY FOR DOUG

Somewhere in the seedy side of heaven there is a place for Doug Sahm. No doubt he has plenty of company: Hank is there, and so is Elvis, and Stevie Ray, and all the other musicians who meant so much to all of us. Townes Van Zandt busies himself writing timeless ballads, and Lefty Frizzell bangs them out on an old guitar with Ernest Tubb accompanying. There, off to the side, Valerio Longoria squeezes out a polka while T-Bone Walker plays the blues, and Bob Wills walks around with his fiddle, commenting on it all — Ah-haaah — in that lilting way so reminiscent of wide open West Texas spaces.


San Antonio Current, 10 October 2002

A couple of Doug's (OK, one has a Douglas as a family name, but that's close enough for government work, as they say) are slinging mud in the Vermont governmental race.

Preliminary reports show this spring's walleye and yellow perch hatches in Lake Erie were less than spectacular, which could have repercussions in the coming years. "We don't have anything official, but they're going to be rated very, very poor," said Doug Johnson, a biologist at the Sandusky office of the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, division of wildlife. "We had a little bit of decent weather in April, but our April and May weather in general were terrible."

Port Clinton News Herald, 7 October 2002

All we seem to do these days is argue about the United States. And the arguments are awfully sparse, aren't they? Either our neighbour is the most powerful nation on Earth, a menacing imperialist intruder that we must resist, or it's the most powerful nation on Earth, a beneficial force of democracy and peace that we must join and support.

Let me offer you a new way of thinking about America: Over.

Under this school of thought, the United States stopped being the world's dominant nation years ago, and has quietly collapsed into being Just Another Country. We haven't really noticed this, the theory goes, because most other countries still act as if the United States has its old military and financial power, an assumption that could be stripped of its invisible clothes in the event of a protracted Iraq war.....

"The United States has been fading as a global power since the 1970s, and the U.S. response to the terrorist attacks has merely accelerated this decline." So says Immanuel Wallerstein, the Yale University political scientist who is by far the most outspoken member of this camp. A gravelly old contrarian with little time for the orthodoxies of the left or the right, he may have gained his remove by teaching at McGill University in the 1970s.

In a forthcoming book, to be titled Decline of American Power,he describes his country as "a lone superpower that lacks true power, a world leader nobody follows and few respect, and a nation drifting dangerously amidst a global chaos it cannot control." ....

This is how great powers end: Not by suddenly collapsing, but by quietly becoming Just Another Country. This happened to England around 1873, but it wasn't until 1945 that anyone there noticed.....

There are other signs: The middling liberals, who in the 1960s would have sided with the left in opposing U.S. imperialism, are today begging for an empire. Michael Ignatieff, the liberal scholar, argued at length recently that the United States ought to become an imperial force -- on humanitarian grounds. Would this argument be necessary if the United States actually dominated the world? ....


...says Doug Saunders in the Globe and Mail on 5 October 2002.

Doug Shivers.

So do I , sometimes.

Get down, Doug Brown!

"Are you having a hard time forgiving someone who wronged or betrayed you?" asks this Doug. "If so, here are some thoughts based on my own experience and study which you may wish to ponder. To help you explore Christian forgiveness, this site contains life experiences, biblical and psychological insights, self-test belief questions, sermons, voting on forgiveness questions, and a message board for discussions."

This Doug loves beer.

"On the 18th June, The Anarchist defeated both Drew McDonald and The Zebra Kid in the same night to become the Universal British Champion.  This means that Doug now represents all of the major promotions in Britain, including All Star, TWA, FWA, WAW and Premiere Promotions.  After being presented with the belt, Doug stated the following. 'I'd like to say it was an honour to win the belt here tonight in Southampton.  But I can't.  As far as I'm concerned, you can all go back in to the sea where your town came from.' Williams was then challenged to a tag team match at the next Southampton show.  However, after the lack of respect shown to him by the Southampton fans, Doug has decided to appear at Croydon that night. "

...That's telling them, Doug.

Doug Arenberg studies tumors.