BOTY

When posting about Powerline being named the "Blog of the Year" by Time magazine, I should have noted that the blogger behind Powerline, John Hinderaker, is a South Dakotan and also was the keynote speaker at the Dakota Blog Alliance Conference last summer. 

Ryne:

And for overall coolness, you can't beat the fact that I once enjoyed an all too brief lunch chat with South Dakota boy John Hinderaker. I should have kept a napkin or something.

Here's one of Powerline's funniest posts of the last year discussing South Dakota political matters.