Bulletin Board Dakota Rural Action has created a searchable online South Dakota Local Foods Directory. (Via.) Achievement Awards Blog headline of the week: Bernard Madoff Sentenced; Books To Come Bookish Linkage C. Max rounds up the releases we...

Maybe it’s the fact I grew up during the Vietnam War but I’m a fan of many of the movies about it. Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness in the setting of that war, is a classic. I’m not alone in that...

Do you read celebrity memoirs? Which ones have you read or do you want to read? Which nonexistent celebrity memoirs would you like to see? Generally, no, although I make exceptions for musicians, such as Dylan, Clapton, Zappa or others whose music...

As a follow up to this week’s Musing Mondays, I figured this would be a good time to check on how I’m doing on the reading challenges I adopted for the year. So far, more than so good. I’m actually one book shy of completing all three. Here’s the...

We hear about bestseller lists, the Top 40 and all sorts of measures of popularity of various items in our culture. But what about in the world of American law? What kind of top 10 list would there be? LexisNexis, which provides online legal...