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“… and nothing but the truth”

With the hearing underway underway on J.A.I.L.’s objection to the Attorney General’s ballot explanation on Amendment E, it may be an appropriate time to actually look at two documents signed by South Dakota J.A.I.L.er-in-Chief Bill Stegmeier.

The lawsuit being heard by Judge Gors was started by an affidavit signed by Stegmeier. An affidavit “is a […]

Book Review: Field Notes from a Catastrophe (2006)

“It’s really a very interesting time.”

So a geophysicist from the University of Alaska tells Elizabeth Kolbert as she visits his study of the permafrost in Alaska. That “interesting time” is the global warming taking place on the planet.

Kolbert expanded a three-part series she wrote for New Yorker magazine into Field Notes from a […]

The Wizard and Wounded Knee

Prior to the publication of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum published a weekly newspaper in Aberdeen. More than 100 years later, his descendants are coming to South Dakota to apologize for editorials he wrote just before and after the Wounded Knee massacre calling for the extermination of the Lakota Sioux.

Baum published […]

The Amendment E lawsuit

Proponents of the J.A.I.L. measure, also known as Amendment E, have filed suit challenging portions of the Attorney General’s ballot explanation of the amendment. The claim, made in a sworn pleading signed by South Dakota J.A.I.L.er-in-Chief Bill Stegmeier, is not as broad-based as complaints raised in an earlier letter to AG Larry Long but does […]

Early week miscellany

Too many interesting things popping up so an early installment of linkage:

The Observer comes up with a list of 15 web sites that changed the world. There’s only two I hadn’t heard of (both non-US oriented) and a couple I visit(ed) nearly every day, (Via Kottke.org Remaindered Links.) Why do I find the fact […]