6/12/2008 Must Reads: A Toe Cocktail, Hillary's Accounting, Like a Nail in the Head, Jailing Our Kids, and McSame's Defenders

Thursday, June 12, 2008
Todd Epp in S.D. Watch "Must Reads"

Guess that gas map thing was pretty popular. You never know when a post might take on a life of its own.

Here are today's Must Reads.

SOUTH DAKOTA MUST READS:

Thune Defends McCain
12/06/08 08:38 from South Dakota Politics
John Thune and Joe Lieberman defended John McCain yesterday in the latest distortion of McCain's words regarding Iraq. See here and Denise Ross's account here . First it was the notion that McCain wants the Iraq war to continue...

• Ah, my young Republican friends once again defending the indefensible.
  

South Dakota: Great Place for Kids... to Go to Jail?
12/06/08 07:53 from Madville Times
KJAM reports a puzzling statistic this morning: South Dakota's juvenile incarceration rate is triple the national average . Data from the Kids Count project of the Annie E. Casey Foundation shows that in 2006, the state of South Dakota had...

• Another Dakota myth busted--our kids are so much better than everyone else's. Or, we love our kids so much, we put them in the clink.

Not everybody in KC gets shot in the head with a nail gun
12/06/08 02:43 from Medary.com
This guy did, though : A suburban Kansas City man says he feels fine, even though a nail gun accidentally fired a 2.5-inch nail into the top of his head. The mishap occurred Friday while George Chandler of Shawnee and a friend were doing a...

• Which reminds me of these classic lines from National Lampoon's Christmas vacation:
• Eddie: You surprised to see us, Clark?
  Clark: Oh, Eddie... If I woke up tomorrow with my head sewn to the carpet, I wouldn't be more surprised than I am now.

NON-SOUTH DAKOTA MUST READS:

Campaign Debt? What Campaign Debt?
12/06/08 08:58 from Politics from Newser
Some clever and mostly legal accounting tricks could minimize Clinton's big campaign debt and leave her with cash on hand for king-making or another future campaign, reports Politico. Hillary could reclassify her own loans to the campaign a...

• Wonder if they hired those unemployed/jailed Enron accountants to do this ciphering?

Sourtoe Cocktail
12/06/08 08:29 from BuzzFeed - Latest
FOOD BUZZ – A bar in Canada serves up a sourtoe cocktail using a real, preserved human toe. The Sourtoe Cocktail Club started in 1973, you can add the pickled toe to the drink of your choice but the rules stipulate that the drinker's...

• I think this takes even the foot fetish to an unbelievably new and disgusting low. Ick.

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