Writer and retired professor Elizabeth Cook-Lynn swears off and swears at social media: This invention was not the Utopian Dream whose purpose, some suggest, get’s…
Tag: civil discourse
An eager reader submits this note, left in the mailbox of a Hillary Clinton supporter proudly displaying a Clinton campaign sign in his Rapid City yard:…
While working the Democratic booth at the Brown County Fair, I had a Trump supporter come up to me unbidden and, without preface, call me…
In today’s lesson in civil discourse, Libertarian blogger Ken Santema posts a photo of Joop Bollen talking with me in front of the Brown County Democrats’ booth…
Looks like Pat Powers is catching the lying bug from Ron Branstner. Powers says I was an uninvited guest at Branstner’s Two-Hour Hate last night here…
Senator John Thune invites us to give him our feedback “if our paths cross this summer,” but he doesn’t tell us when those paths will…
Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Jay Williams says Senator John Thune “has told Dakotafest sponsor IDEAg Group that he has no plans to debate this…
Terry Woster finds a social media acquaintance reposting Trumpy hyperbole challenging readers to name one thing Hillary Clinton has done. As a Sanders Democrat, I won’t…
Rep. Jim Stalzer (R-11/Sioux Falls) is feeling the heat for leading the Republican stalling of the Governor’s sales tax plan to fund teacher pay increases. After…
In the philosophical distractions department, a good friend of the blog is reading A Manual for Creating Atheists by Portland State University professor Dr. Peter Boghossian.…