By Carrie Jacobson
The show I was in this weekend was a total financial bust – but a springboard for theories about art shows. What’s yours?

By Emily Theroux
Funny that the crowd in Michigan last Friday didn’t laugh, after Motormouth Mitt told his calculated “birther” joke. “They cheered,” MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell observed, as if Mitt had made an important policy pronouncement. They applauded the new knowledge that Romney was willing to go there, to be on record as not merely the Republican who was running for president but as the white man who was running to win back the White House for white voters.

By Jeffrey Page
It seemed that the Republican party was about to nominate me for president.

By Bob Gaydos
Unlike GOP conventions, movies are not always as advertised. Still, it beats Chris Christie.

By Bob Gaydos
We know these buffoons, these liars, these phonies. We vote for them. As satire, Will Ferrell’s latest movie could be a documentary, with sex.

By Emily Theroux
“Legitimate” rape — is that an oxy-Moron, Todd Akin? And compared to what? “Illegitimate” rape? “Participatory” rape? Do you also believe women can’t get pregnant during their periods, or when they’re standing up? Do you discount the germ theory of disease? And what does Paul Ryan have to do with this lunacy? Not much, if you don’t give any thought to it – but oddly, just about everything, if you do.

By Jeffrey Page
At his age, you’d think he would know a little something about sex.

I grew up with one telephone in the house, a mailbox on the door, and paper and pen for writing letters.

By Michael Kaufman
Union leader Hetty Rosenstein says it isn’t “big labor” versus “big corporate” in the USA today. It is David versus Goliath.

By Jeffrey Page
Obama’s man put it plainly: Mitt Romney ought to take 10 seconds and release his tax returns.