I can't complain but sometimes I still do
South Dakota's governor on Monday signed into law a bill banning nearly all abortions, setting up a court fight aimed at challenging the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion in the United States. Read more about it here.
Here is my potentially offensive question: If you were an unborn fetus in South Dakota, would you want to live?
posted by Steve Hyden @ 2:24 PM
I can't complain but sometimes I still do
My name is Steve and I'm a newspaper reporter and writer living in northeast Wisconsin, which is just below the armpit created by the bulk of the state and the peninsula. I don't live in the actual armpit, which is Green Bay, which is a place where fat people sit on their porches and watch traffic go by when the Packers aren't in season. I live in Appleton, a place where slightly less fat people do slightly more interesting things, like watch NASCAR, which is traffic with better camera work. I like living here 79 percent of the time. I fancy myself a deep thinker, an iconoclast, a man who can enjoy both high and low culture. Think Chuck Klosterman with a dose of Jack Nicholson from "Five Easy Pieces." However, I suspect I am not nearly as cool as I think I am. I may in fact be a dork. For example, look at how I described myself a few sentences earlier. What can I say? I'm the guy who started listening to the Clash when he was 13 not because he was reacting against the repressive Republican regime he had lived under most of his life, but because John Cusack wore a Clash T-shirt in "Say Anything..."
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If you are in South Dakota, can it really be considered living? Isn't it more along the lines of merely existing?
(All I know is that I am crossing my fingers for the continued health and well-being of JPS. If that doesn't pan out, well, maybe it's time to send the instructional DVD "Weekend at Bernie's" to his clerks.)
Having never been to South Dakota, it's probably not fair for me to answer this question....but I will anyway. :) Considering such famous people as Bob Barker, Tom Brokaw and Mary Hart were born there, I don't know how else you can top that. So to answer your question, if I was an unborn fetus I could only hope to be born in South Dakota and no where else. -r
i've loved all my ventures to south dakota.
plus being a fetus might mean i can be fetus kid someday.
but that shit is soooooo wrong. i can hardly believe that guy.. yet of course i can... s.w.p.
You know, there's a corn palace in SD. I think any fetus (ask the Idol kid) would rather not live in a state famous for a building made of hog feed.
Hey, why don't you just go straight to the source and ask Kevin Covais?
Since my trip to Sioux Falls was part of the worst year of my life, I don't have fond memories of the place. The strip mall casinos, lame "falls" and absence of civilization don't help, either.
Klh stole my thunder.
I too find the corn palace truly definitive of South Dakota.
Wait a sec..I've got an idea
Corn-siding on structures -- is it lame?
I think it's better than the puke green aluminum siding installed in 1974.
Yeah, but it is arrogant. You don't see any other mediums of siding drawing that kind of attention to itself.
But the corn palace does so much for the children!
Doesn't suck.
there's no other place i'd rather be not-born.
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