Bedside manner is central to the way medical doctors interact with their patients. Being affable is the key, defined by the online dictionary as “friendly, good-natured, or easy to talk to.” What’s said tends to be what the patient wants…
Has the US exported its Tea Party dissatisfaction with distant Washington, including DC’s coast-based single-minded mega media, a seemingly unified GOP and Democratic Establishment Party, deference to the United Nations, and loss of local identity and autonomy? …
Memorial Day is a military holiday which focuses uniquely on those who died in battle. Celebrated on the last Monday of each May, it is also seen as a day off or three-day weekend for many. One…
The norm now is for engineering graduates to go rushing off to big companies like Boeing in Seattle, to be wined and dined. Being “recruited” is a lot of fun. Besides, being in a big city can be exhilarating for…
When the Black Hills Veterans Writing Group meets again on Flag Day, June 14, glider expert Charlie Summers, a much-decorated F-100 Super Sabre pilot in Vietnam, will share his knowledge of the role of gliders during World War II. …
During the Great Depression, 14-year-old Chuck Childs had to leave his Dakota farm to ride the rails when he thought his family just didn’t have enough food to go around. When the war broke out after Pearl Harbor, Childs worked…
(South Dakotans building a retaining wall, Jamaica 1991) by Duke Doering On May 21, 1991, National Guardsmen from Company B, 153rd Engineer Battalion located at Madison, SD, were preparing for their deployment to Jamaica. The unit departed on…
Impoverished local newspapers must cut-and-paste from companies like Associated Press to offer anything beyond hometown gossip. But AP is just as liberally biased as the national news on television. Yesterday’s banner from Washington reads “Studies: Wildfires worse…
It’s been a long time since college presidents were picked from the ranks of distinguished scholars among the faculty. These days, it’s all about fundraising and fiscal management. No intellectuals need apply. In fact, presidents don’t even need to have…
OK, so we get rid of cursive writing in schools. Writing by hand will default to printing just in case applications for government assistance need to be filled out. But isn’t the next step simply to get rid of any response…