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Tomorrow’s first annual Do Nothing But Read Day ranks with Festivus on the list of days that need to be declared offical holidays. (Via.)Blog Headlines of the Week
Bug powder causes male bedbugs to stab each other to death with their penisesInteresting Reading in the Interweb Tubes
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Why does Herseth Sandlin’s explanation about why she voted to raise the debt ceiling sound like an explanation I’d hear from my kids as to why one was committing an act of sibling battery on the other:
The House narrowly passed the measure to raise the ceiling from $12.1 trillion to [...]
From Todd Epp over at Middle Border Sun comes a reply to Travis Dahle’s non-apology for mocking congressional candidate Chris Nelson for his courtesy and respect at the Capitol Menorah lighting in a post titled When My Guy Wears A Yarmulke, It’s Respect; When Your Guy Wears One, It’s Pandering:
I just had to note this when I saw it…
Two tiny dogs are up for adoption after eating their owner.
The pugs, Harry and Sally, spent two weeks in a Papillion, NE home after their 51-year-old owner apparently died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Police don’t suspect foul play.
A neighbor noticed there [...]
Time magazine named today Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke as their 2009 Person of the Year. Essentially Bernanke was named because the Economy has been the number one issue this year and Bernanke has played the central role in managing the economy.
His selection is well [...]
Since they made their post yesterday calling GOP Congressional Candidate Chris Nelson’s wearing of a yarmulke at a religious observation as an “odd transformation” and derisively calling the photo “priceless,” the Democratic website Badlands Blue has been laying low.
The website as written by Travis Dahle of Dahle Communications, William [...]
Reminder: City Council votes on event center recommendations tonight.
7pm • 10th & Dakota Ave. (not City Hall at 9th & Dakota)
Their resolution says they are accepting all the recommendations of the task force. That means they are asking for new sales tax to pay for it.
It also says the [...]
We’ve known for quite some time Dan and Chip Heath intended to include the story of the “Miner County Cash Flow Study“ project in their next book, Switch: How to Change Things when Change is Hard. Chip interviewed Randy Parry about the project at Grassroots and Groundwork Conference [...]
I heard from a reliable source tonight that both Tom Bennett (director of the SD Symphony) and Gary Wood (CEO of the Pavilion) were actually fired by their boards for economic reasons. Leave it to the mostly Republican boards to fire their directors over a problem caused [...]
