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Well, it’s sort of a J.A.I.L.house award

I’ve previously talked about how hurt I was that PP got the nod from the South Dakota J.A.I.L.ers as their “most critical” blogger. I’m evidently moving up in the J.A.I.L. world — I think.

The comment about PP is gone. And while there’s still various references to us and bloggers, I get a whole paragraph […]

You judge the 10 answers on J.A.I.L.

I was remiss in not mentioning this last evening when PP told me it was about to be posted. He got a response from Bill Stegmeier on the 10 questions he sent Stegmeier about the Judicial Accountability Initiative Law (J.A.I.L.). The questions and answers are posted both at No on Amendment E and South Dakota […]

Book Review: Falling Through the Earth (2006)

Virtually anyone alive during the Vietnam War will acknowledge its impact on American politics and society and, if honest, themselves. Yet as Danielle Trussoni’s memoir, Falling Through the Earth, demonstrates, there are persons not alive then for whom the war became an intimate part of their lives.

Trussoni’s father, Dan, was a “tunnel rat” in […]

J.A.I.L’s California shell game – Chapter 4

This series looks at how proponents of South Dakota’s proposed Judicial Accountability Initiative Law (J.A.I.L.) move shells around to divert attention when certain issues they don’t want to discuss come up. One of the more interesting items that’s come up in it is from Ron Branson, the author of J.A.I.L.. He recently said, “I am […]

Awards marginalia

As I battle the annual spring illness, a few awards slid by that are worthy of mentioning:

Of course, you should have heard that the 2006 Pulitzer Prizes were handed out. Geraldine Brooks won the Fiction award for March; David M. Oshinsky won the History award for Polio: An American Story; the Biography award went […]