So the Democratic National Committee has announced the bloggers from each state who will get floor credentials to cover this summer’s Democratic National Convention. And the pick from South Dakota: Badlands Blue.
Guess that shows what the DNC thinks of South Dakota bloggers or South Dakota. As noted a while ago, Badlands Blue was [...]
Shocked, just shocked! Appalled, absolutely appalled!
Somewhat behind on my web reading, I have just learned that my GOP friend PP of the South Dakota War College is part of a cabal planning to take over the world. After all, good and certainly unquestionable authority says PP is — gasp — a “Zionist operative.”
Now I’ll admit [...]
A public thank you to the wonderful hosts for the small “blogger banquet” I attended Wednesday night. I got to meet a couple bloggers I did not know personally and the wide-ranging conversation and laughter were only rivalled in quality by the excellent food.
I thought this an appropriate way to express my thanks and [...]
As evidenced by the new link at the right, South Dakota bloggers are going to try to help South Dakota Public Television with its fundraising efforts. From the e-mail I received:
Some bloggers in SD have agreed to cooperate with each other without regard to ideology or perspective and request that their Blog readers contribute [...]
What with family activities, work and getting the new site ready to go, many of the normal things I’ve been neglectful of deal with recent changes in the SD blogosphere, most involving Todd Epp. The latter two have been duly noted in the blogroll at right:
Todd has decided to give more legal focus to [...]
PP has launched the No on Amendment E - SD Jail-4-Judges blog. It is aptly subtitled, “One annoying blogger’s little attempt to derail South Dakota’s 2006 Amendment E - the Judicial Accountability Act.”
He won’t be alone. This blog will also continue to examine South Dakota’s Judicial Accountability Initiative Law (J.A.I.L.) amendment and its [...]
Sometimes it’s interesting where you find items of common ground.
After receiving a nice e-mail last weekend from Joel Rosenthal about a recent post, I took a closer look at his blog, Straight Talk. I knew it was there but hadn’t paid much attention. You see, there probably isn’t a lot on which he and I [...]
A friend has embarked on an interesting summer venture: he’s going to see how little he can use his car. He’s launched a blog, appropriately named MinusCar, to detail and document his efforts, which involve a combination of mass transit in Sioux Falls, such as it is, and his love of bicycling.
Take a look at [...]
If you haven’t seem them already, here’s a couple items that are worth the time:
While I think the “Gannon” controversy is pushing the envelope of a legitimate lifepsan, here’s a more historical analysis where ethically challenged is a kind description. (Via Dakota Today).
Hats off to Trent for taking a closer look at [...]
A friend points out the Jeff Gannon/James Guckert uproar may hit pretty close to home. Joe Conason has this at Salon and there’s also info here and here on “Gannon’s” connections with Thune and Thune’s paid bloggers. Maybe those bloggers were even more slimy than we thought.
SD’s right-wing bloggers are squawking that left bloggers in SD aren’t outraged that the operator of Daily Kos was a paid consultant to the Dean campaign and using that news to rationalize their actions. They miss the point.
As I said at the outset, I didn’t have a problem with the Thune campaign paying bloggers. My [...]
Here’s the NY Times version of a story making the rounds nationally:
Armstrong Williams, a prominent conservative commentator . . . acknowledged yesterday that he was paid $240,000 by the Department of Education to promote its initiatives on his syndicated television program and to other African-Americans in the news media.
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The disclosure about the arrangement coincides with [...]
Other things have had me distracted for a while but posts on Daily Caucus and more recently on Thune v South Dakota finally clicked with some earlier fact-checking I did.
In defending the fact they did not disclose on their blogs that they were paid by the Thune campaign, two Daschle-bashing bloggers (and some of their [...]
“I believe in letting science make those decisions and not emotion.”
– John Thune, Dec. 21, 2004, on making enviromental decisions upon his appointment to the Senate Environment-Public Works Committee.
An evangelical Christian, [Thune] does not believe in evolution.
– Newsweek, July 26, 2004
Hats off to Trent Dlugosh. Playing off the name of a pro-Thune, Daschle-bashing blog operated by a paid member of the Thune campaign, Trent has launched Thune v South Dakota.
The Angel of Grozny: Orphans of a Forgotten War by Asne Seierstad
