Very Short List has an interesting piece today on the great divide between the way liberals and conservatives think. It asserts that truth follows party lines because people are wired that way.

Here’s a link to the short VSL article. This is the first…

The lead headline in Monday’s paper infuriated a number of readers.

“McCain, new sidekick a hit at O’Fallon rally.”

“Totally disrespectful” one reader told me.  She said “sidekick” is a word that should be reserved for comedy acts.

Another offered that maybe we…

A reader — also a frequent participant in STLtoday online conversations — wondered why we used the photo we used in this morning’s Post-Dispatch with the political brief about the controversy over the satirical New Yorker cover.

The photo we used didn’t…

Editors and staffers here are aware of the desire and need to maintain objectivity in our coverage of the presidential campaign. That can be done by matching every word written or photo used on a daily basis — not the easiest or…