In the "Your Tax Dollars at Work" department, KELO and the state of South Dakota make blogging easy: Oh look! Governor Daugaard has hired Mummenschanz! These four white horsemen of the Apocalypse will tour the Midwest on a bus chartered…
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Pat Powers pumped out three blog posts in twelve hours to promote the rumor that Rick Weiland is simply a placeholder candidate for Brendan Johnson. Powers offers no hard evidence to support this assertion. The idea that Weiland declares himself…
Following up on Governor Dennis Daugaard's impending trip to the Twin Cities to steal away the best and brightest of their afternoon mall denizens, I find the South Dakota press is a few days behind the Minnesotans in discussing the…
Following up on the mythology of the notorious Dodge Super Bowl ad, an eager reader submits this "Pablo Harvey" remake, which more realistically portrays America's farmers: And don't forget: Dodge is a Chrysler product. Chrysler's majority-owner is Fiat, an Italian…
Apparently there was some football game last Sunday that featured a 1978 Paul Harvey speech on farming. Harvey borrowed his "God Made a Farmer" speech from text circulating in small-town papers in the 1940s. Dodge borrowed Harvey's version to sell…
Good ol' Dennis is sending a whole mess of muckety-mucks down to Las Vegas next week. They all are goin' to the Shootin' Huntin' and Outdoorin' Trade Show.... the SHOT Show! Hooooo-wee! Them namin' folks is clever... and so's our…
With Judge Mark Barnett throwing out a lawsuit against Governor Daugaard's SD WINS program, the Governor can go ahead with his efforts to pay an out-of-state company millions of dollars to convince talented workers to move back to South Dakota.…
The Circle H Motel in Lake Andes got lots of free publicity yesterday after I posted about its racist anti-Obama sign. Lots of people clicked from the Madville Times out to the Circle H Motel's Facebook page to offer their…