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Posts tagged as “morals”

Václav Havel, Moral Leadership, Iran, and Ron Paul

Playwright and president—wait. Hear those words together. Czech playwright and president Václav Havel died last night. Communists—not the bullshit bogeymen some Americans see behind every perceived slight against their selfish desires, but real Communists, the kind with tanks and guns…

In Atheists We Do Not Trust

You folks consider me about as trustworthy as a rapist. Science says so: ...[A] team of psychologists at the University of British Columbia and University of Oregon... conducted a series of six studies with 350 American adults and 420 university…

Eric Robert Goading Us into Suicide by State

Confessed killer Eric Robert is trying to hold South Dakota hostage. During his sentencing hearing before Judge Bradley Zell yesterday, Robert threatened to kill another man and tried to shift the blame to us: He also told Zell that failure…

Newquist, Steinbeck, Despair, and Common American Identity

In his usual (and in my book, admirable) sprawling fashion, the good Dr. Newquist reads in the two recent suicides by cop here in the Black Hills a snapshot of America's perilous moral state as the plutocracy rises, the serf…

Fundie Foes of Freedom Foist Fag Phobia

Bob Ellis returns to writing about real South Dakota politics... but alas! He does so only to peddle hate, deception, and his persecution complex. Ellis crows about the pink flyer being circulated by his fellow fundagelicals to damage Ritchie Nordstrom's…

HB 1230: Would Corporations Get Welfare from Jesus?

Let's mingle the secular and the sacred on the budget today, shall we? HB 1230 comes before Senate State Affairs this morning. This bill permanently diverts 22% of the contractors' excise tax to corporate welfare, handouts to wealthy businesses that…