Column of the Day - Gerrison Keillor

The voice of Lake Wobegon offers his account of the RNC:

I must say, it was fun having the Republicans in St. Paul and to see it all up
close and firsthand. Security was, as one might expect, thin-lipped and gimlet-eyed, but once you got through it, you found the folks you went to high school with -- farm kids, jocks, the townies who ran the student council, the cheerleaders, some of the bullies -- and they are as cohesive now as they were back then, dedicated to school spirit, intolerant of outsiders, able to jump up and down and holler for something they don't actually believe.