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Bulletin Board
I hate losing the variety of KAUR-FM but was pleased to get a letter from Minnesota Public Radio saying that, starting Sept. 15, it will become one of MPR’s all news stations.
Blog Headlines of the Week
U.S. Congress Resumes; Let Us Pray
Did Sept. 11 Make Us Fat? How The Attacks Affected […]
Man who sued Match.com over unanswered e-mails is dropping the lawsuit because of “the amount of ridicule” he had to endure. (Via.)
Where’s Henry Fonda when you need him? A judge declared “a cooling-off period” for jurors deliberating in a product liability trial. The reports indicate one juror claimed she had been the subject of […]
Mention Russian literature and most people think of two things. One is the pre-revolution authors whose names are familiar in the West, such as Pushkin, Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. The other is the Soviet era, where the government controlled what was published and writers like Boris Pasternak, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and Vasily Grossman struggled to have their […]
I just realized I started this blog six years ago today. In terms of the SD blogosphere that probably makes me an oldtimer, even though the focus has changed over the years and isn’t on South Dakota issues.
During those six years, there’s been 1,553 posts (not counting this one). Given the history of the […]
My definition of “old soul” differs slightly from the more common usage. To me, an old soul is someone who, musically or otherwise, grasps and is able to express the ethos of those who are a decade or more older. Any number of the tunes on Rockin’ the Suburbs make it plain Ben Folds is […]
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