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Political notes

There are a few political goings on that I can’t keep from commenting on.

First, I see John Thune voted for and Tim Johnson voted against an amendment to the defense authorization act that would “strip captured ‘enemy combatants’ at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, of the principal legal tool given to them last year by the […]

Marginalia

Not suprisingly, after winning this year’s Hugo Award for best novel, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell won in the same category for this year’s World Fantasy Awards. (Via SF Signal). The book is still sitting on the bedside bookshelf with a bookmark about one quarter of the way in. Slate chimes in with an […]

State and local political notes

It appears the JAILers have presented enough signatures to get their measure on the 2006 ballot. South Dakota War College guesstimates the paid signature collection effort cost about $75,000. Even if it’s half or one-quater of that, it still begs the question of from where or whom the money is coming. No earthquake or other […]

Book Review: The Da Vinci Fraud (2005)

Despite my antipathy of organized religion, I have always been fascinated by and read several works on New Testament research and scholarship. Robert Price’s The Da Vinci Fraud uses the opportunity presented by Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code as a framework to try to engage a wider audience in a discussion of the origins […]

DVD quick takes

The little recent media viewing has been dominated by the 22 episodes of the first entry.

American Gothic (2005) 4/5

This set contains all the episodes of this genre-bending and all too short-lived series that aired on CBS during the 1995-96 television season. Put simply, Sheriff Lucas Buck (played magnificently by Gary Cole) runs the […]