You get old and you realize there are no answers, just stories. - Garrison Keillor

... you are never so smart again in a language learned in middle age nor so romantic, brave or kind.

To many Americans, whose only knowledge of the North Star State is that it is intensely cold and populated by Swedes and Holsteins, it will come as a surprise to wake up one morning in 2004 and read in the newspaper, "Half of U.S. Economy Now in Hands of Minnesota".

When you wage war on the public schools, you're attacking the mortar that holds the community together. You're not a conservative, you're a vandal.