• Politics, Schmolitics

    South Dakota’s Sneaky Little End Run

    news > Mondo Washington by James Ridgeway With Michael Roston” href=”http://villagevoice.com/news/0609,roston,72317,2.html”>village voice > news > Mondo Washington by James Ridgeway With Michael Roston A campaign to push the legislation through the U.S. court system up to the Supreme Court where South Dakotans can lead the charge to overturn Roe v. Wade, will cost over $1 million. South Dakota doesn’t have that kind of money. So the Governor is studying ways of accepting into the state treasury private funds with which to wage the battle in the name of the South Dakota citizenry. In short,the well-heeled opponents of abortion are going…

  • Uncategorical Weirdness

    The True Spirit of Aloha

    Ran across this item because I’ve been keeping an eye out for mentions of slack key guitar in general, and George Kahumoku’s concert series in Maui in particular. Both topics are mentioned in this article from the Maui News, but what the writer has to say about true family values is worth noting: MAKING THE SCENE: All in the family For all the talk of “family values” in recent years that has actually been used to drive cultural wedges between groups of people, our chance to tag along on this Maui vacation was more of a spiritual homecoming. It was…