USD history professor Robert Hilderbrand may have been hoping Senate Bill 108, which would have erased seduction and alienation of affection as causes of legal action, would have drawn more support in Pierre. Make that former professor Hilderbrand, as of…
Posts tagged as “sex”
Rape is rape. But illegal sexual contact is another issue. Under current South Dakota law, sexual contact—any touching of naughty parts not amounting to rape—with someone who is physically or mentally incapacitated and cannot consent is a Class 4 felony.…
With Senate Bill 109, Senator Stan Adelstein (R-32/Rapid City) seeks to add "gender preference" to the list of discriminatory practices that local governments may investigate under SDCL 20-12-4. Since pastoral politicos Scott Craig (R-33/Rapid City) and Steve Hickey (R-9/Sioux Falls)…
We're a week out from a big election; it must be time for the lying creeps (or is it just one creep, David Astin?) of the Family Matters PAC to send out more bogus pink campaign flyers. This year, Astin…
Blog neighbor Tim Gebhart is right, and that Sioux Falls paper is wrong: censoring this Doonesbury cartoon on abortion laws passed by various states is as hypocritical as the Republicans who want to keep government out of everyone's health care…
With the GOP-manufactured debt crisis averted, we can all breathe easy, right? The market will correct itself, the world will still pick America as the safest financial bet, and we can coast through the dog days of August with our…
The night time is the right time... I generally avoid Bob Ellis's "Dakota" Voice in part because it is not a "Dakota Voice." Ellis's regurgitations of Tea Party talking points could come from anywhere. With nothing original to say, he…