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In about 1963 Kaul began spelling Harlan Miller in writing ''The Register''’s “Over the Coffee” column, and he took it over full-time in the spring of 1965. In 1970 the paper moved Kaul to its bureau in Washington, D.C. In 1983 he fell from grace with the
"Kaul belongs in ''The Register'',” she said then. “There aren't many world-class columnists around, and we've got one who's really our own."<ref>{{Cite news|title=The Des Moines Register|date=1989-01-21|page=1}}</ref>
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And the way Kaul penned those columns, the way he turned a phrase, was unforgettable for many of his readers. Richard Nixon “is to shifty what Larry Bird is to basketball,” he wrote in a 1986 column for ''The Register''.<ref>{{Cite book|title=They're All in It Together: When Good Things Happen To Bad People|last=Kaul|first=Donald W.|publisher=Andrews and McMeel|year=1991|location=Kansas City|pages=14}}</ref> Kaul unrelentingly and affectionately teased Iowa girls’ basketball for its slow pace, calling for it to be timed with an “hour glass” and saying it drove crowds “delirious with apathy.”<ref>{{Cite book|title=How to Light a Water Heater and Other War Stories a Random Collection of Random Essays|last=Kaul|first=Donald|publisher=The Iowa State University Press|year=1970|location=Ames|pages=56–57}}</ref> Describing riders of RAGBRAI as “my kind of people,” he explained: “They come for a little fun and to see whether it’s true what they say about coronaries. They’re not into finishing first, they’re into finishing.”<ref>{{Cite book|title=THE END OF THE WORLD AS WE KNOW IT AND OTHER ENTERTAINMENTS|last=Kaul|first=Donald|publisher=Image & Idea|year=1979|location=Iowa City|pages=51}}</ref>
A [[Washingtonian magazine]] poll of the
Kaul has always worn his liberalism on his forehead. Noting the political benefits of military contracts scattered by design among many congressional districts, he wrote, “Congress has its faults – it is for the most part cowardly, venal and self-aggrandizing – but give it this: it is absolutely ingenious in its efforts to protect the military budget from the scourge of peace.”<ref>{{Cite book|title=They're All in It Together: When Good Things Happen To Bad People|last=Kaul|first=Donald W.|publisher=Andrews and McMeel|year=1991|location=Kansas City|pages=45}}</ref>
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Protests followed, led by anti-gun control activists who flooded his email and phone with nasty, sometimes threatening, messages. Kaul explained he was writing satirically about the GOP leaders, but to little avail. “Perhaps my column jumped the shark a bit,” he said. “I was angry. But worse would have been to watch those little bodies being carried out of the Newtown school, shrug, and say ‘Gee, that’s terrible. We’re going to have to do something about that someday, if the NRA approves.’ That would have been immoral.”<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://otherwords.org/deploying-satire-at-my-own-risk/|title=Deploying Satire at My Own Risk - OtherWords|date=2013-01-04|work=OtherWords|access-date=2018-01-31}}</ref>
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On January 11, 2018, Kaul revealed that the cancer in his prostate has spread to his skeleton and that he will no longer take treatments. He was in the end stages of his battle with cancer and didn't expect to live beyond the year.<ref name=DMR180111/>
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