I don't usually find much value in anonymous comments. However, one unknown reader responds to Pat Powers's lazy press-release blogging by saving the South Dakota Republican Party Platform Committee a whole lot of work. Here's a nicely distilled version of…
Posts tagged as “humor”
The Displaced Plainsman keeps on his English teacher/debate coach hat (such headwear never comes off) and offers five summer study essay questions for us students of AP South Dakota Politics. While the instructor surely expects lengthier, better evidenced final drafts,…
I promise: per Bosworth's request in her only face-to-face conversation with me (not to mention my own morals), I have not f---ed with her son. But an eager reader sends a clip from Sunday's Sioux Falls paper that suggests someone…
Annette Bosworth is hard to satirize. It's hard to make fun of the already ridiculous. But hey, I'm an atheist South Dakota blogger. I'm an expert at trying the impossible. 15 days until the primary: what more fun could lie…
Kevin Woster's debunking of the Larry Pressler-closet story provokes Joel Rosenthal to recount a locker-room meeting with the veteran Senator and newly minted Independent candidate. Rosenthal says he was "barely clothed in a towel after showering" when Pressler "literally bumped…
David Montgomery says I'm wrong about Attorney General Marty Jackley's announcement yesterday that he won't prosecute any Senate candidates until after the election. AG Jackley isn't doing political favors; Montgomery reports that the AG is simply following a common and…
I hear the emcees at GOP dinners around South Dakota frequently invoke the apocryphal "Reagan's 11th Commandment" to deter primary candidates from denigrating each other. So does that include doing bunny ears to your fellow Republicans? Bunny ears on Lora…
Rick! Rick! Rick!!! I told you that you need to get Amy Poehler to come do a fundraiser for your Senate campaign. But do you listen? Do you listen? No! Now GOP Senate candidate Jason Ravnsborg goes and steals your…