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Weekend marginalia and miscellany

I agree. PP has what may be the best KELO blooper ever. Steve Hemmingsen’s facial expression near the end is icing on the cake. The top 100 photos taken by the Hubble Telescope. Although I’m not sure how the top 100 was determined, it’s worthwhile. (Via Kottke.org Remaindered Links.) Wil Wheaton gives us five […]

A pretty poor poster child

South Dakota JAILer-in-chief Bill Stegmeier said my wish for more JAIL ads would come true with a full page ad in the Argus Leader today. It’s there but it won’t generate the hours of blog time BS predicted. Aside from it being so dense with type few people will read it, it simply trots out […]

State political notes

Soon it will be over. Until then, another round-up of South Dakota political notes.

Coat Hangers at Dawn and South Dakota Progressive are doing an excellent job following the Roger Hunt/”Promising Future, Inc.” flap. I haven’t taken the time to look at the legalities of it all but it certainly seems to smell funny. Along […]

The BS fixation on “prison slave labor”

While South Dakota J.A.I.L.er-in-chief Bill Stegmeier fixed the misstatement his BS committee made in an ad accusing the state of opposing Amendment E because it wants “prison slave labor,” he ain’t gonna let the argument go.

In a new ad headlined “Is Justice For Sale In South Dakota?”, BS now says South Dakota’s prison industry, […]

Only one set of numbers really counts

So Billy S. asks in his inimitable style (you know, calling people a “dick” is the level of his political discourse) what I think of KELO’s poll numbers. At least now, they’re not online but, as I recall from this evening’s news, they were 50 percent “Yes” and 41 percent “No.”

I first heard about […]