By Carrie Jacobson
What fills the gap between good and great?

By Jeffrey Page
He says 47 percent pay no taxes. Does that include him?

By Emily Theroux
“You name it,” Mad Dog Mitt said about how much largesse he thinks professional victims expect the government to give them in the form of free handouts. His fundraiser rant, delivered to 150 truly “entitled” people, dismissed out-of-hand some 150 million people whom he had already decided to cut loose – purportedly because they would never vote for him, but in reality, because he despises their weakness, their “lack of incentive,” their abject neediness. (Mitt appears to be in genuine denial that people like him and Donald Trump, who were “born on third base,” are scorned by real “boot-strappers” as dilettantes and “trust-fund babies.”)

By Bob Gaydos
A group in Selma, Ala., wants to renovate a monument to a Civil War general who was the first grand wizard of the KKK. Really. Does it never end?

By Emily Theroux
Should someone with Romney’s personality flaws even be under consideration for the sensitive job of leading the most challenging foreign policy operation in the world? He lacks both experience and any respectable source of advice. As far as I can tell, he doesn’t even have what my father, a Dallas native, used to call “kitty brains” — in this case, the instincts to choose a running mate who knows his way around the world. Romney has no habit of critical thinking, no facility for introspection, and no empathy for other people — and there’s not a diplomatic bone in his body. To my mind, he’s not at all “presidential.” All he’s got going for him is a boatload of money — and good hair.

By Carrie Jacobson
Today, Sept. 12, would have been my mother’s 85th birthday.

By Jeffrey Page
If Romney can cite an example of Labor’s holding a gun to the poor oppressed skull of management, I will retract the following observation: Mitt Romney knows as much about the work life of ordinary people as another famous millionaire, Scrooge McDuck.

By Michael Kaufman
The death of former Duke basketball star Art Heyman brings back memories of the player and his mother, who played mahjong at our house..

By Jeffrey Page
These young people are slinging burgers and living with Mom and Dad, whom they dearly love and from whom they’d like to get away – ASAP.

Sometimes painting “regular” is painting “irregular.”