I think the press has to start laughing out loud at him when he says stuff like this. They shouldn't get all moralistic--just treat him like the fool that he is.

Why are you willing to have Missouri be a national joke? Lowest teacher pay. Arming toddlers. How is any of this helpful to a regular Missourian? How will any of this grow Missouri's economy?

Oh no, James. I am so sorry.

And fiction forces you to take another person's point of view; it transports you from your daily life to someone else's.

I left it when the new guy took it over. I wasn't there that much anyway but he drives everything into the ground that he touches (literally).

I've been searching (in the US) for Colm Toibin and he is NOT in the St Louis County Public Library. I am disappointed.

This was my 1960s childhood. Glad to know things haven't changed.

And here I am.

I'm here. Signed, a former Ranelagh resident.