By Denise Ross

It’s rally week out here in the Black Hills. That means lots of motorcycles and a few meatheads. To wit:

(Photos by David Larson)

This was the scene earlier this week on Interstate 90 between Sturgis and Rapid City. This future Nobel Prize winner maintained this posture on the on-ramp, pictured here, and for a substantial time once he had entered traffic, where he kept pace with those of us traveling 70-75 mph. Mr. Hoghouse and I disagreed about the duration of his performance, with the minimum distance agreed on being 1 mile and the maximum being 3 miles. On a second bike, his traveling companion, of whom we did not get pictures, was able to perform this maneuver only intermittently. 

Here’s another in the series of photos Mr. Hoghouse was able to snap.

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By Denise Ross

If you don’t have to reread this a few times, your ability to grasp the world on the other side of the looking glass is more agile than my own.

This from the London Times’ literary supplement:

In (the book’s) foreground – and here the wary reader starts doing some research to see how dodgy these particular pieces of non-fiction are – are the cases of Bill Janklow, the former Governor of South Dakota who was convicted of manslaughter, Jacinta Eagle Deer, allegedly raped, possibly murdered, and Leonard Peltier of AIM (the American Indian Movement) who was jailed for shooting two FBI agents. Custer gets re-enacted but not Wounded Knee, though that lives on in Kevin Costner, while AIM confronts the still-extant BIA (Bureau of Indian Affairs), of unsavoury reputation.

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