Comedian Doug (scroll down) withstands attack from Japanese sci-fi monster, defends use of Dougzilla.com domain name.

Township engineer Doug blames government's diversion of funds to Iraq war for blocked sewerage line.

No simple solution to the problems of prostitution, observes criminologist Doug

Mystery box found on Arctic tundra yields its sad and gruesome mystery to archeologist Doug

Winnipeg Doug will illustrate new Star Wars comic.

Hot hog and owner

County fair board president Doug agrees the hogs are too hot and need to chill out.

Mayor Doug says if the government paid to put all those mobility-challenged, little old ladies on scooters, the government should pay for sidewalks to get them off the streets.

Image from Columbine massacre video displayed at high school assembly

Principal Doug sponsors tear-jerking anti-violence, pro-compassion program.

Doug Duncan

Watch out, Tom Ridge! County Executive Doug fancies himself Homeland Security czar.

Doug gets off with probation in tragic hunting shooting of his lifelong friend, irritates victim's family by going hunting again.

Doug learns the hard way that oil spills don't always happen along the coast or out to sea - sometimes it's your own basement that the tanker soils, complete with long-lasting, life-threatening toxic results.

Dioxin, one of the most toxic substances known


Doug West defies the dangerous poison that has tainted his body.


Acting Director of Public Health Doug minimizes the threat as brave and trusting dioxin Doug remains optimistic and says he won't sue the megacorp that poisoned his blood.

Mayor Doug says everybody in town needs to lose weight.

Doug probes the "North Dakota mentality."

Doug defies dangerous dogs.

Doug looks past the illness, helps girlfriend survive.

They had a double Doug jamboree in Zanesville the other day.

Watch out for Doug's "little appliance shop of horrors."

Doug exposes President Bush's empty "Leave No Child Behind" promises.

Silent Doug wants to help you get on board the letterboxing craze.

Doug's Oulipian Olympics.

Olympian Doug blogs the World Cup of Hockey.

Doug realizes it's not the destination, it's the bus ride that's important.

By gum, sez Town Councillor Doug, the people of Whitchurch want a change for the better.

Broker Doug explains the law of supply and demand. And, that's no bull.

If you need AppleScripts to manage an iTunes digital music collection, Doug is the man.

Another Doug gets the Presidential fever.

South Mississippi Doug wants the biggest bang for the buck.

President thanks Doug and his brother Mike. They laugh. The crowd roars.

Judge reminds candidate Doug that a brand name is not the same as a nickname. Doug continues to insist that people actually walk up to him and call him "Ax the Tax."

Constable Doug hot on the trail of cow-killing bees.

Doug sees "golden parachute" payout cut by $66 million, expected to act out the meaning of his family name.

Doug risks liberty to reveal he's hosting VP Dick "Expletive Deleted" Cheney on a campaign stop. And, speaking of Orange alert, it's a good thing that al Qaeda doesn't read the local papers or use the Internet, isn't it.

Doug ponders puzzling pussy.

DougDay.org set to blow up big

DougDay.org Launches International Marketing and Promotion Program with Press Release

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

DougDay.org offers the complete Doug experience - daily, globally, zestfully Doug!

"Every Doug has his day" at DougDay.org. If your name is Doug, or if you know a Doug, and even if you're just curious about the wonderful wacky world of the Doug tribe - welcome! Every day DougDay.org explores a new Doug. Surpassing the traditional 15 minutes of fame, each DougDay.org Doug enjoys a full 24 hours in the spotlight as Doug people everywhere celebrate in solidarity and fellow feeling with their eponymous cohort. Won't you join us?

DougDay.org is a new media venture from Doug Millison, a San Francisco Bay Area writer and editor. In the early 1990s, he created and edited Morph's Outpost on the Digital Frontier, an innovative magazine that helped shape the community of interactive media development pioneers (the folks who made the WWW a viable publishing and communications platform), plus the related Art Teco conference/trade show, and Daily Spectrum email newsletter. He also created and developed Blaster, the first consumer magazine for interactive media screenagers. Mr. Millison has helped to develop, write, and and edit several ground-breaking books on user experience design, editorial development, corporate journalism, and digital relationship-building using digital media, email, and the Web, and has consulted on the design of many successful corporate and commercial web sites. Learn more about him and his work at http://www.Online-Journalist.com.

Comments, Doug news and stories welcome: doug at dougday.org.
For more information, contact Doug at dougday.org; on the web at DougDay.org

Doug to the rescue as monster snake terrorizes Houston suburb.

Columnist Doug Moe mentions DougDay in his column. Dougs everywhere rejoice!

Wednesdays column on the bloodied bagpiper at Whistling Straits, meanwhile, wound up on a blog dougday.org dedicated to people named Doug. You may recall that the bagpipe teacher in the column was Doug Stewart of Elkhorn, and of course the columnist was also named Doug. The Doug Web site is the creation of a San Francisco writer, Doug (of course) Millison, who notes, Every Doug has his day. All I can say is its better than a Web site dedicated to Moes.

Australian clown, Doug passes, but his "legend will live on for hundreds of thousands of Victorians who followed his bobbing cone hat as it wove through the Moomba parade for more than 40 years."

Doug achieves fame (thanks, naturally, to a newspaper columnist Doug) because a guy he taught to play the bagpipes got hit in the head with a golf ball.

Pity the poor children of American Presidents, says Doug

How blind Doug became a championship golfer.

"Arrive early and head for a shady area" -- Doug's secret for success in the first-ever Catfish-O-Rama, applicable to just about any outdoor activity. Don't forget: "If you don't have your hook in the water, you won't catch anything."

Shocking short films coming soon on DVD from this crazed Doug.

Old goat Doug prepares for yacht race. Mother Nature deciding how to react.

"I am the reality check for you," says this voice-of-doom Doug. "When death comes, it comes in a hurry and it doesn't care who you are or what side of the tracks you live on."

Another lost Doug:

RUSH [LIMBAUGH]: Here's Doug in Los Angeles. Hi, Doug. Welcome to the program. Yeah.

CALLER: It's an honor to talk to you.

RUSH: Yes, sir.

CALLER: You saved me from the clutches of the emotional appeal of liberalism my freshman year in college. I've been listening ever since. Thank you.

RUSH: You're welcome, sir. [...]

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....