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Granted, it’s a logical progression but Mary Roach’s choice of book subjects does make a person wonder. Her first book was Stiff: The Curious Life of Human Cadavers. She’s now followed that with Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife. Fortunately, the latter is told with the same light touch and playfulness as the former. Roach truly […] Thanks to the attentive reader who noticed the backers of the South Dakota Judicial Accountability Initiative Law (J.A.I.L.) have modified the version of the initiative on their new website to restore the language I pointed out they omitted from what is actually on file with the Secretary of State. But the J.A.I.L.ers still like to […] Plenty of state legislators have sought cover for the rejection of a rape and incest exception in the new abortion ban by pointing out the bill includes a provision allowing for use of so-called emergency contraceptives if administered prior to the time pregnancy could be determined. Yet their voting records indicate this is pretty weak […] Thomas Mahey feels the literal and figurative walls around him. As the narrator of Justin Tussing’s debut novel, The Best People in the World, Thomas takes us with him on his search for freedom. It is 1972. Thomas is a 17-year-old living in Paducah, Kentucky, a town with a 20-foot high floodwall erected to protect […] A little bit of catch up. A variety of things, including the college tournament games (no, not basketball — the WCHA and CCHA tournaments), had me occupied. Book reviews forthcoming as all the J.A.I.L. stuff cleared up the writer’s block. “Lilly Munster” sent an e-mail to let me know about a new South Dakota blog. […] |
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