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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.

Wild Cars of Thunder Butte - Part II
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.

OUT OF STATE MUST READS:

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?

Who’s Afraid of John McCain?
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.

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