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The Old Scout
Complete Archive
- How to Cleanse America (08/13/08)
- The Old Man's Technical Foul (08/06/08)
- No Time for Dithering (07/30/08)
- Summer Civility (07/23/08)
- When the Dumb Stuff Doesn't Matter (07/16/08)
- At 96, the Wonder Still Has Plenty to Say (07/09/08)
- A Beautiful Swing, A Compromised Future (07/01/08)
- Don't Go Mum on Us, Barack (06/24/08)
- Eulogy for the Winnebago (06/17/08)
- A Duke Ellington For Modern Times (06/10/08)
- Summer's Here: Everybody in the Pool (06/03/08)
- The Roar of Hollow Patriotism (05/27/08)
- A Few Mutterings Over the Graves of Soldiers (05/20/08)
- Springtime is Our Time and Viva Sweet Love (05/13/08)
- Nobody Loves You Like Mama Does (05/06/08)
- Planes and Purgatory: A Day at the Airport (04/29/08)
- The Joys of a Structured Life (04/22/08)
- Singing the Delta Blues (04/15/08)
- Observations From the Back of the Line (04/08/08)
- Theirs Not To Reason Why (04/01/08)
- In the Shadow of the Volcano (03/25/08)
- A Pagan's Thoughts at Eastertide (03/18/08)
- Like It Was Great (Totally) (03/11/08)
- Why They Are Looking at the Skinny Guy (02/26/08)
- Tired of Winter, Getting an MRI (02/19/08)
- A Sigh From Saginaw (02/12/08)
- What You Don't Want, Throw Out (02/05/08)
- Where's St. Michael When You Really Need Him? (01/29/08)
- What is Wrong with Our Country Today? (01/22/08)
- Columnist Lashes Out at Candidates (WHACKKK! OOOFFFFFF) (01/15/08)
- In Defense Of Stepping Out Of Line (01/08/08)
- Just Follow The Map (12/31/07)
- O Little Town of Bethlehem (12/25/07)
- Stopping to Smell the Pine Boughs (12/18/07)
- The Meaning of Christmas (Yes, That One Again) (12/11/07)
- The Nativity in New York City (12/04/07)
- Merrily we Sail Along Over the Deep Blue Sea (11/27/07)
- Why I Didn't Invest in Subprime Mortgages (11/20/07)
- He Forgot His Cellphone: A Sad Story (11/13/07)
- Why You Didn't See The Raven This Year (11/06/07)
- Why Iowa Matters (10/30/07)
- G.O.P. Recipe for Success: God and Marriage (10/23/07)
- Went to Baltimore and Saw That it Was Good (10/16/07)
- October Heat Wave Hits Minnesota as Stanford Beats USC (10/09/07)
- Finding St. Paul on the Road (10/02/07)
- It is Never Too Late to Change Your Mind (09/25/07)
- September: Time to Lighten Up and Get a Grip (09/18/07)
- The Great Tenor Stood and Wept for Us (09/11/07)
- A Man is Hurled from his Perch; Life Goes On (09/04/07)
- A Good Knock on the Head Clarifies Everything (08/28/07)
- Columnist Issues Stiff Warning to Readers (08/21/07)
- The Master Woodsman Takes a Hike (08/14/07)
- Recipe for Avoiding Risky Bridges: Hold the Mayo (08/07/07)
- Getting worked up over a down market (07/31/07)
- A Worrywart's Guide to Vacationing (07/24/07)
- How the Norse Stay On Course (07/17/07)
- Beware of Suspicious Medicine Men (07/10/07)
- The Fine Art of Lying: A Layman's Guide (07/03/07)
- The Liberating Silence of the Library (06/26/07)
- The Unknown Person at the Airport (06/19/07)
- 'La Vida Pura' beckons in L.A. (06/12/07)
- The case for the simple life (06/05/07)
- Hollow Oratory on Memorial Day (05/29/07)
- Do Not Disturb: Author at Work (05/22/07)
- Spring and the Wait for a Worthy Leader (05/15/07)
- The Pleasures of Perfect Cadence (05/08/07)
- The Restorative Power of Sweet Magnolias (05/01/07)
- Being Chosen: The Occupational Hazards (04/24/07)
- Thanking History for Our Comeuppance (04/17/07)
- Trying to escape a good reputation (04/10/07)
- Take a hike. It'll do you good (04/03/07)
- Someday in the Park with George (03/27/07)
- Let us Now Praise Worker Ants (03/20/07)
- Some Plain Talk about those Classroom Dioramas (03/06/07)
- Bringing the Met to Minneapolis (02/27/07)
- Choosing the Right Lunch Partners (02/20/07)
- Giuliani's Dress Rehearsal (02/13/07)
- Needed: More Caribou, Fewer Holsteins (02/06/07)
- Out with the Old (12/26/06)
- Let the Weather Outiside be Frightful (12/19/06)
- The Season of Letter-Perfect Families (12/12/06)
- What the Dickens? (12/05/06)
- Come All Ye Faithful - And don't forget the cookies (11/28/06)
- Low Riders in Church and Then We Went Home (11/21/06)
- A More Perfect Union: fewer states (11/14/06)
- Possibility in the air (11/07/06)
- The retiring type? Not me. (10/31/06)
- The subtle upside of terror (10/24/06)
- Everyday sweetness in America (10/17/06)
- A big round of applause, please, for modesty (10/10/06)
- The cranky man's guide to contentment (10/03/06)
- Mixed feelings about snap judgments (09/26/06)
- A penny for my thoughts (09/19/06)
- Coffee, tea, or triacetone triperoxide? (09/12/06)
- The real strengths of Fortress America (09/05/06)
- A modest plan for saving the country (08/29/06)
- Let the voices of 9/11 be heard (08/22/06)
- In a political year, the solace of baseball (08/15/06)
- Why a man should turn 64 (08/08/06)
- Shut my mouth if this ain't a heat wave (08/01/06)
- Thoughts of a hottie (07/25/06)
- The lazy man's guide to Alaska (07/18/06)
- Summertime and the livin' is what it is (07/11/06)
- A peach of a scandal in Georgia (07/04/06)
- The Prodigal Father has another cup of coffee (06/27/06)
- Older man collapses at home, in satisfactory condition (06/20/06)
- What I did last week alone in my car (06/13/06)
- Note to Republicans: The Party's over (06/06/06)
- There is no monument like a book (05/30/06)
- Taking a new look at Grandpa (05/23/06)
- Protestants unite! A call to action (05/16/06)
- Something he's been meaning to say for years (05/02/06)
- Let's Talk About You and Your Mother (04/25/06)
- It's Spring, sweet Spring, so keep on the grass (04/18/06)
- How to improve your marriage in just one day (04/11/06)
- April is here, time to cut loose of politics (04/04/06)
- His nerves are tired and he needs to lie down (03/28/06)
- Message to the White House copilot: Eject now (03/21/06)
- Day of Reckoning for the Current Occupant (03/14/06)
- Me and Maurizio, ships in the night (03/07/06)
- What to do when the emperor has no clothes (02/28/06)
- Why not be all that we can be? (02/21/06)
- I did it in my sleep (02/14/06)
- Join the government and see the world (02/07/06)
- If it's okay with them, it's fine by me (01/31/06)
- The character-building properties of sweaters (01/24/06)
- Pants on fire? OK with me (01/17/06)
- A leader need not throw his weight around (01/10/06)
- The cold truth about my holiday in Norway (01/03/06)
- The Magnetic Power of the Herd (12/27/05)
- Holiday Fear: too little to talk about (12/20/05)
- Grace and Humor: Remembering the Real Gene McCarthy (12/13/05)
- A Little Savage Grandeur and Who Needs Therapy? (12/06/05)
- Writers and Readers: Unbearable Intimacy (11/29/05)
- Let's Give Thanks for Faultless Pens, Swimming Teachers (11/22/05)
- Splitting the Haute Cuisine Scene (11/15/05)
- Today's Lesson: It Could Be Worse (11/08/05)
- Why the Undisturbed Life is Not Worth Living (11/01/05)
- A FINE day to be somebody else (10/25/05)
- Trust me, Harold Miers will be a brilliant justice (10/18/05)
- In defense of the embattled Tom DeLay (10/11/05)
- Suffering brings wisdom, but so does fun (10/04/05)
- Ambition and the honesty of everyday work (09/27/05)
- Football, Turkey Power and the Lessons of History (09/20/05)
- Why Not a Decency Standard for the U.S. Congress? (09/13/05)
- After Katrina, Looking for Higher Ground (09/06/05)
- How Coffee Mitigates Life's Daily Grind (08/30/05)
- Miss Orange and America's Red-Blue Divide (08/23/05)
- Edith Wharton and the War on Terror (08/16/05)
- A Puritan's Path to Weight Loss and Eternal Happiness (08/09/05)
- Answering the Call of the Chattering Classes (08/02/05)
- The Inexorable Ascent of A Harvard Man (07/26/05)
- A Layman's Guide to the Valerie Plame Affair (07/19/05)
- Reining in the Dog Days of Summer (07/12/05)
- Discordant Notes Among the Supremes (07/05/05)
- The Land of the Free and the Home of the Berries (06/28/05)
- Q & A with Garrison Keillor (06/28/05)
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