Things People Say

Readers comment on theater at St. Thomas

"Foley folly" ... "Tragic mistake" ... "Disappointment by St. Thomas choice" ... "Money isn't everything." Comments on St.MORE »

Racists for Obama

How badly is the campaign going for John McCain? Ben Smith reports that he’s even struggling to hold on to the white racist vote:

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The great bailout heist: What will $1 trillion buy?

As if $700 billion weren’t an incomprehensible enough sum on its own, that widely repeated figure only represents Henry Paulson’s personal stash of get-out-of-debt-free cards.MORE »

Voices from the streets during the RNC

The week of September 1-5 brought many passionate activists from near and far to St. Paul to speak about the policy issues they care deeply about. Here are some of their messages.MORE »

Voices from the protests

Zoe and her mother came to the big protest march on Labor Day. Zoe is five years old. She said she likes demonstrations, and made the sign that is attached to her stroller.MORE »

Readers sound off on RNC protests

"You anarchists never learn."
"It’s always easy to sit and talk shit until it’s your house being raided."MORE »

Oral Roberts U grad Bachmann says Harvard grad Obama ‘isn’t well-schooled’

Michele Bachmann recently told the Hometown Source, an online extension of ABC Newspapers in the northern suburbs, that Barack Obama “isn’t well-schooled and prepared to be President of the United StaMORE »

Readers sound off on disco, the Unabomber, and Santa Christ

"If there was any deep division in the music scene in 1977, it wasn’t people scratching their heads at less than stellar releases from Kansas, Foreigner, Styx, or Steely Dan and Neil Young, it was theMORE »

Call and Answer

CALL AND ANSWER is a poem by Robert Bly in a vMORE »
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