Columns
From the New York Times, Time magazine, and the complete Chicago Tribune syndicated columns
From the New York Times, Time magazine, and the complete Chicago Tribune syndicated columns
I was in Mitchell, S.D., (pop. 14,000, Home of the Corn Palace) not long ago standing around in a parking lot next to City Hall eating barbecue off paper plates, the way you do sometimes, with conservative, churchgoing, stick-to-business townspeople, and there, standing next to me, eating just the coleslaw (she is a vegan), was […]
Read MoreMinnesota came out OK on the federal transportation bill, considering that we voted for John Kerry last year. Of course we didn’t do as magnificently as Alaska did because Alaska has more unpopulated areas where you can put bridges and highways without bothering anybody, but we got some nice stuff – a few guardrails, some […]
Read MoreMy plan to become slender and willowy and alluring is not working out and the reason seems to be that though I go for days and days eating only celery and RyKrisp and a soup made from birch twigs and lichen, I black out occasionally and when I regain consciousness I am crouched over the […]
Read MoreDon’t ask me why, I bought a deluxe cell phone that can send text messages and take photographs and video. It also may be used to dial phone numbers and talk to people. It does everything except trim your ear hair and maybe it can do that and I just haven’t figured out how. It […]
Read MoreHad the president nominated a bullet-headed troglodyte for the Supreme Court, Democrats were prepared to take to the phones, fire up the Web sites, and sic the dogs of direct mail on him, but when he brought forth a summa cum laude Harvard man, the crowd quieted down and the dogs crawled back under the […]
Read MoreI feel it’s time for me to step forward and tell what I know about Karl Rove’s conversation with columnist Robert Novak in which Mr. Novak reportedly told Mr. Rove that CIA operative Valerie Plame had been responsible for her husband Joseph Wilson going to Niger to debunk the White House’s claim that Saddam Hussein […]
Read MoreWhen it comes to the summer doldrums, a person’s brain shrinks to pea-size and one forgets about lofty moral values and takes the short view, and so I turn on the air conditioning and burn up precious non-renewable resources for my own comfort and pleasure even if it does mean that glaciers shrink and the […]
Read MoreJustice Sandra Day O’Connor must enjoy her job a lot to have stayed on until she is 75. And Justices Stevens (85) and Rehnquist (80) must be fond of theirs, too. The rest of us who do not dwell in marble halls or enjoy supremacy of any kind tend to consider retirement around the age […]
Read MoreThese summer days when strawberries are in their prime seem to bring out the kindness in people. You bring home a little carton of hand-selected berries and wash the best one and pop it in your wife’s mouth and this is a statement of tenderness. Tenderness and stubbornness make for a good marriage and marriage […]
Read MoreTMS: Why are you writing a newspaper column? GK: I am writing the column because I am a newspaper reader, and I have been ever since I was a child. I am a daily newspaper reader. I love newspapers. I love them in the face of the Internet, which I also am fond of. I […]
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