To be filed under WTF, former soccer player turned actor Vinnie Jones was arrested in a bar brawl Thursday.

Vinnie Jones arrested after getting wild in the West


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In the inbox:
[From The Volante, the student newspaper at my former would-be alma mater.]
"BREAKING NEWS: Name for new student center revealed

"The new student center on campus will be named the Theodore R. and Karen K. Muenster University Center, thanks to a $5 million donation from the J.B. and M.K. Pritzker Family Foundation."Not that I'm ( Read more... )

Evidently, I am bored. Because I went to Wikipedia and searched the "List of People from South Dakota" category.

The Standards ...
Oscar Howe.He's an art god both in South Dakota and among Native American painters. He developed a revolutionary style of depicting the Lakota experience. Strong in geometry at an early age, this is reflected in his ( Read more... )

From the Gmail inbox:

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The Trip Home


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It does not matter how much you plan, there will always be something to throw a wrench into them. Sorry Heather. I'll catch you in August. Maybe July.

I love Rosebud with every fiber of my being. It is the land of my ancestors. It is my clay, formed with patches alluvial soil and sandhills, blood, grass dances, lodgepole indentations and spilled ( Read more... )

Reno: Storm sweeps region; next round on the way

So, I should qualify this by saying that Reno-Sparks really didn't get the "snow storm" that bad.
And Reno-Sparks is where I live. But the Sierras are the high country and I suppose I wouldn't want to be tooling around up there.
Besides, this is where the infamous Donner Pass is located, so there' ( Read more... )

HB 1227 was deferred until Tuesday.
The House Local Government Committee in action, ladies and gentlemen. Oh well, at least they didn't defer it until the 41st day. [Thank God!]

The proponents: six citizens, including my cousin Anne White Hat, Sen. Tom Katus [the author of the failed SB 113 and co-author of 1227] and a little thing called pathos ( Read more... )

I received a packet in the mail today from the United States Department of the Interior.
It was in a manila envelop and as such, I figured it was just another notice to register my new address with the department so they could tell me that my land has accrued a whopping $15 this particular anum in trust.

But surprise, surprise, "the Great Plains ( Read more... )

By Bill Harlan, Journal staff"A Senate committee killed a bill Wednesday that would have subjected county zoning decisions to public votes ( Read more... )