Comments on: Harry, Louise, Paul & O

By: autoegocrat

autoegocrat — Sun, 24 May 2009 16:14:17 +0000

I just want to note here that I am damn proud to have helped send Steve Cohen to Congress.

By: jon

jon — Sun, 24 May 2009 12:23:42 +0000

I often find myself having to warn people who are playing with a hacky sack. I tell them, “Watch that you don’t get more than six of you playing at once, or a Phish concert might happen.”

By: joel hanes

joel hanes — Sat, 23 May 2009 19:08:54 +0000

Ah, Over The Coffee on the left side of the back page of the Des Moines Register. I especially liked the columns in which Kaul related his encounters with The Man In The Seven Buckle Galoshes.

I think Kaul taught me to be a liberal.

By: discordianstooge

discordianstooge — Fri, 22 May 2009 20:07:36 +0000

What I find curious in the Birmingham story is that I haven’t heard a single mention of the cop the guy ran over. Because he doesn’t matter at all, apparently.

By: Gene

Gene — Fri, 22 May 2009 17:25:24 +0000

Kaul is a continuing favorite of mine. I grew up reading him too. You can read his latest & archives of his columns here:

http://minutemanmedia.org/

By: Mark Gisleson

Mark Gisleson — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:44:13 +0000

Old enough? He was my Congressman when I was growing up. Never got to vote against him because I registered to vote in Ames.

H.R. Gross would introduce H.R.144 each year to balance the budget. He was famous for it but when he retired he kept his unused franking money as his retirement nest egg and DM Register columnist and my political writing mentor Donald Kaul lambasted him for that over and over again.

By: joel hanes

joel hanes — Fri, 22 May 2009 16:39:33 +0000

I think you might be just old enough to remember Iowa's most iconic contribution to mid-20th-century Washington : Representative H. R. Gross. Gross was ... known for his independence, so much so that then-House Minority Leader Gerald Ford remarked that "there are three parties in the House: Democrats, Republicans, and H.R. Gross."