3/5/2008 Must Reads: Dykstra "Blooms," RC Landfill Blows, the Military Aims Poorly, and Who Cares about the NHL?

Wednesday, March 5, 2008
Todd Epp in S.D. Watch "Must Reads"

Winter just doesn’t want to be budged out of the Sioux Empire yet again today.

But Evil Winter, your days are numbered!

Here are your Must Reads:

SOUTH DAKOTA MUST READS:

Dykstra’€™s Senate bid about to bloom
05/03/08 15:38 from Opinion/ from www.rcweeklynews.com
It’sa bit after 8 p.m. on a Thursday night, and Joel Dykstra is deliveringa stirring speech to a crowd of Hughes County Republicans that includesmost of the state’s top elected officials, including Gov. Mike Rounds…

• Certainly this headline was meant to be either sarcastic or ironic.

High winds force landfill closure
05/03/08 15:22 from News/top from www.rapidcityjournal.com
High winds have once again led Rapid City Public Works officials to close the municipal landfill…

• It ain’t exactly a “landfill” when the wind blows all the fill out of the land.

OUT OF STATE MUST READS:

The U.S. Military’s Assassination Problem
09/03/08 19:00 from MotherJones.com
Software like “Bugsplat” is supposed to keep decapitation attacks precise. So why do we keep blowing up Iraqi wedding parties?…

• Sometimes “Oops” just isn’t a good enough reply.

Michael Farber: The true meaning of the stretch drive
05/03/08 14:54 from SI.com: SI Writers
If playoffs are the Big Dance, welcome to the NHL’s precursor: the Eighth Place Dance of Death…

• Someone in the major sports media actually gives a crap about the NHL?
  

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