3/30/2008 Must Reads: A Doug Lund-Free Edition

Sunday, March 30, 2008
Todd Epp in S.D. Watch "Must Reads"

No references to my anti-man crush Doug Lund today. So, these are safe to read.

Here are your Must Reads.

SOUTH DAKOTA MUST READS:

Saturday and Schmeckfest
30/03/08 07:43 from Horseshoe Seven
Freeman Academy in Freeman, SD, has held a Schmeckfest every year forthe past 50 years, and this year we got tickets, so we and the B’s,along with our madchen, went down, looked over the cool stuff, and enjoyed their good Mennonite cooking…

• “Good Mennonite cooking”? That is an oxymoron in terms. My father’s family is Mennonite way back to the Old Countries. There are many, many admirable things about the Mennonite religion and Mennonites. A peace church. Helping others. Practical Christianity. But cooking is not one of their greatest traits unless you like lots of fat and dough. I’m just sayin’.

Bloggers for Government? The Powers Candidacy
26/03/08 07:42 from Madville Times
Brookings area estate agent Pat Powers, author of the popular South Dakota blog Dakota War College , has mailed his petitions to Pierre so he can run for the District 7 State Senate seat. He faces a Republican primary battle against…

• My pals PP and CAH have taken the plunge off their blogging bridges into the stormy waters of elective politics. Like the chicken or the egg, which came first, the blogger or the candidate?

NON-SOUTH DAKOTA MUST READS:

Mary Carey — Busting Out!
30/03/08 01:51 from TMZ.com
Filed under: Train Wrecks TMZ.com : Her loud mouth didn’t help her win the title of California Governor — and her giant knockers haven’t landed her the cover of Playboy, yet the porn star extraordinaire manages to stay in the limelight…

• And she’s also young and a Republican. I think we’ve found Sen. John McCain’s Veep! Sorry, Sen. Thune!

Clinton: All The Way to Denver
29/03/08 21:50 from Talking Points Memo: by Joshua Micah Marshall
Sen. Clinton gave a pretty astonishing interview to the Washington Post in which she appears to say she will stay in the race till the convention in August, where she will take her fight to the credentials committee to have the delegates…

• Sen. Hillary Clinton’s new campaign slogan: “If you hate me now, just wait ‘til August!”
  

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