Columns by Garrison Keillor
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It is time for all Americans to recombobulate
Saturday, Jan. 30, 2010
There they all were on the Sunday-morning chatfests, droning on about the anger of the American people as shown by the election in Massachusetts of a pickup truck to the U.S. Senate — ever ready, as pundits are, to take one good story and extrude it into a national trend portentous with meaning. Read story
Note to Tea Partiers: Wake up and smell coffee
Saturday, Jan. 23, 2010
The tea partiers are enjoying their day in the sun, but coffee is the beverage preferred by most Americans, and we don’t have time to gang up and holler and wave our arms — we prefer to sit quietly with coffee in hand and read a reliable newspaper and try to figure out what’s going on in the world. Read story
Renouncing evil powers and anonymity
Saturday, Jan. 16, 2010
I went to church in San Francisco on Sunday, the big stone church on Nob Hill, whose name is an old slang term for a rich person, where a gaggle of railroad tycoons built their palaces high above the squalid tenements of the poor back in the Gilded Age, and there with considerable pomp we baptized a dozen infants into the fellowship of faith and we renounced the evil powers of this world, which all in all is a good day’s work. Read story
A floating village provides for the good life
Saturday, Jan. 9, 2010
The cruise ships sail from Tampa and Fort Lauderdale and Miami, great ocean-going pueblos, 10 decks high, passengers lounging on their verandas, gazing at the sea, workhorse Americans trying to get out of cell-phone range for a week and sweeten up to their families. It is a beautiful thing to behold. Read story
More Columns by Garrison Keillor
- Keep on trudging across the frozen tundra
- A Christmas angel this year is from Nebraska
- The Christmas dividend is for the Christians
- A little Christmas joy and a lot of N.Y. attitude
- The truth of Christmas being put to the test
- A celebration of simple goodness with family
- Appreciation of art in the city of big shoulders
- Republican senators need exchange of peace
- Life’s variety pack of people, places and things
- When the tough really should get going home
- Coffee with an old grumbler in a dark mood
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There is something relaxing about shredding
The paper shredder at my house got a workout on the weekend. It whirred away for hours.
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Democrats are trying to fix the country
The caucus is a very serious event and the Republicans should not have to write those letters last week begging people to come to them.
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