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The AG on J.A.I.L.

South Dakota law requires the state Attorney General to provide an explanation to be placed on the ballot for any proposed constitutional amendment. That explanation “shall be an objective, clear and simple summary to educate the voters of the purpose and effect” of the proposed amendment and “shall include a description of the legal consequences […]

Meet the new face of J.A.I.L.

Remember when South Dakota J.A.I.L. distanced itself from JAIL4Judges because of a perception that national group was a “bunch of wacko Californians“? It tried selling South Dakota J.A.I.L.er-in-Chief, Bill Stegmeier, as “a regular American, trying to do the right thing.” It also brought in Jake Hanes as “campaign media coordinator” and he is South Dakota […]

Book Review: Londonstani (2006)

If conflict is what drives a novel, Gautam Malkani’s debut, Londonstani, has plenty of fuel. Throw in a narrator who tells the story with perception and humor in an argot comprised of English, Punjabi and urban slang and you’re in for an intriguing ride, even if the payoff might leave you skeptical.

Londonstani addresses a […]

Book minutiae

While looking at various blog posts via my RSS newsreader, I stumbled across a compilation of book-related statistics and facts at ParaPublishing. Although some are a bit dated, here’s several that caught my eye:

In 1947, there were 357 publishers, that increased to 12,000 in 1980, to nearly 53,000 in 1984 and an estimated 73,000 […]

Procrastination marginalia

I have three or four book reviews I should/need to write and either lack the motivation to finish (or even start) or am simply in procrastination mode. Thus, it seems an appropriate time for a collection of miscellany:

Steal This Wiki has been launched to update and revise Abbie Hoffman’s counterculture classic, Steal This Book. […]