The gentlest of love songs, calling for the lightest of touches. Steffen Schmidt joins us on Tuesdays to discuss all the day's and week's news and political events. Why Americans Still Don't Vote Election 2000 was the most contentious and controversial in over a century. The infamous butterfly ballots and dangling chads are now part of folklore. Yet beyond those things deeper and troubling questions about the nature of American democracy arise.
Voter turnout is appallingly low.
Don't even ask. Donna Rizzo, DVM with the Pet Medical Center in Ames answers your questions about pet health and pet behavior. Alain De Botton, the Swiss-born genius who gave us How Proust Can Change Your Life will read from h is new book, Consolation Philosophy, in which he chooses to turn his readers and their problems over to the likes of Schopenhauer, Socrates, and Descartes for answers. He is the smartest kid in his class and class cutup all in one. Once upon a time it was never the same time in any two places at once.