Columns

From the New York Times, Time magazine, and the complete Chicago Tribune syndicated columns

Trump would have enjoyed the 17th century

This was the week the man
Changed his mind about mass deportation.
There will not be a total ban
Of Muslims, only extreme filtration.

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The question no one is asking about Donald Trump

The bigger the losses, the more he earns.
Airline, Trump U, and casinos
All went belly-up but he knows
Loss is gain. My projection:
He’ll make money from a lost election.

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Donald Trump, caught with his pants down

Garrison Keillor is an author and radio personality.
He questioned the president’s birth
To help the president make clear
That he was not born elsewhere on Earth
But was born here.

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What every New Yorker knows about Donald Trump

I know, it seems outrageous, But it’s getting a lot of attention on some very respectable Web pages — which mainstream media won’t mention: Donald Trump was not born in Queens, He was born in the Philippines, In a hotel in downtown Manila. Where his hair turned bright vanilla Due to vitamin deficiencies. Read the […]

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Hillary Clinton’s concrete shoes

I saw Hillary Clinton once working a rope line for more than an hour, a Secret Service man holding her firmly by the hips as she leaned over the rope and reached into the mass of arms and hands reaching out to her. She had learned the art of encountering the crowd and making it […]

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Kool-Aid, cheese curds and an escape from Trump

The sight of Percherons makes me happy. So do deep-fried cheese curds, newborn lambs and those designer chickens with feathery pompom anklets, and then you enter the Horticulture Building and see pumpkins the size of studio apartments, large enough to house a man and his wife, so today I am happy, having attended the Minnesota […]

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When this is over, you will have nothing that you want

The cap does not look good on you, it’s a duffer’s cap, and when you come to the microphone, you look like the warm-up guy, the guy who announces the license number of the car left in the parking lot, doors locked, lights on, motor running. The brim shadows your face, which gives a sinister […]

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Make the most of your brief time on Earth

Life is good if you have your health and not all bad even if you don’t, which is sometimes forgotten in an election year, what with the high-pitched oratory on behalf of the embittered rich and people with ingrown toenails and what not. Apparently we are on the verge of losing our Second Amendment rights […]

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Trump as president is unthinkable. That’s why so many find it fascinating.

Summer weather leads toward cranial relaxation and you know it and I know it. You walk out your front door into the heat and an 800-pound anvil falls out of the oak tree on your head and flattens you like a pancake. It’s the anvil you bought because it cost $150, which is a good […]

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God help us. We’re in trouble down here.

The word “loser” is spoken with such contempt these days, a man might like to forget the losses in his own life that taught him something about good judgment. The money he invested in that casino in Atlantic City that went bust, the university course he enrolled in that promised to teach him the secrets […]

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