A Progressive on the Prairie

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Bad blogosphere news. Ken Blanchard’s Jazz Note is shutting down. While Ken and I are probably on opposite sides of the political spectrum, jazz is a beautiful common ground. Good news for Aberdeen area residents, though, as Ken will evidently begin hosting a jazz show on NSU radio. Thanks for [...]

Worthy Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Google’s Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars (“In short, Google has taken a group of the world’s great research collections and returned them in the form of a suburban-mall bookstore.”) (via)

Building a Nation of Know-Nothings (“It’s one thing to forget the past, with predictable consequences, as the favorite aphorism [...]

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This week’s review of Our Tragic Universe made the Noteworthy Content of the Week at the official blog of 9rules.

Worthy Reading in the Interweb Tubes

Ten things I know about the mosque (“The instinctive response of Americans should have been the same as President Obama’s: Muslims have every right to build there. Where one [...]

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I should have mentioned it before since it ended with July but I did not succeed with the Random Reading Challenge. I made it 75 percent of the way there but under the grading standards in the local schools that’s a “D”. Even the host, Caribousmom, also didn’t make her goal. [...]

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David Wolff, author of Seth Bullock: Black Hills Lawman, which I reviewed earlier this year, will present “Seth Bullock-Law and Order in Deadwood” at the Main Siouxland Library this Tuesday at 7 pm. The program is free and open to the public.

Blog Headline of the Week

Are Conservatives Pussies?

Interesting Reading in the Interweb Tubes

The [...]

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The guide for the South Dakota Festival of Books I mentioned in this space last week is now available online. The complete schedule is also available at the event’s website. As you will see, most likely tomorrow, the festival is affecting August Bibliolust.

Blog Line of the Week

Jessica Crispin describes her recent book [...]