5/2/2008 Must Reads: La Framboise Island, Thunder Butte, Maoists, and a McCain Court
Our parade of weather continues here in SoDak: Snow, fog, thunderstorms, tornadoes, rain, you name it. Hell, I wouldn’t be surprised if Jay Trobec announces that a hurricane is bearing down on Humboldt.
Here are today’s Must Reads.
SOUTH DAKOTA MUST READS:
La Framboise Redux
01/05/08 19:11 from Pirates of the Missouri
On Tuesday, I reverted to a favorite paddle of mine: around La Framboise Island. I put-in on the causeway and headed downstream. The ducks were active that day. And I wasn’t the only one to notice…
- La Framboise Island is one of the undiscovered jewels of South Dakota. Any season of the year it is a wonderful adventure.
01/05/08 20:09 from Thunder Butte
Most modern cars have front wheel drive; this is a given. Long ago, Thunder Butte dwellers learned that cars pulled better than they pushed. When you came to a very steep hill in an old Model “T” Ford, you automatically turned the car around…
- Thunder Butte blog is one of the best history blogs in South Dakota about a fascinating area of our state.
US in contact with Nepal Maoists
02/05/08 02:40 from BBC News | Americas | World Edition
The United States holds its first official diplomatic contact with the leader of Nepal’s former rebel Maoists…
- There are still Maoists? Think they have dinner parties with the Trotskyites?
02/05/08 08:10 from AlterNet.org: PEEK
It’s not his temper or the war that we should fear - it’s who he will appoint to the Supreme Court…
- This is the conclusion I have also come to as to why I would vote for Sen. Hillary Clinton incase the Man Crush doesn’t get the nomination.
Todd Epp
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