Columns by Garrison Keillor
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Republican senators need exchange of peace
Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009
There are some things we will never understand. Death, for one. I overheard a woman in the drugstore say, “He went in to the hospital yesterday and he was eating his supper and then he fell asleep and then he died. I don’t get it.”
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Life’s variety pack of people, places and things
Saturday, Nov. 7, 2009
It costs $722 to fly from St. Paul-Minneapolis to Bismarck, N.D., and you can fly from St. Paul-Minneapolis to Paris for $754. Life is unfair; we all know this. Big prizes go to mediocrities while you struggle on, unappreciated. The righteous suffer while the wicked prosper. Read story
When the tough really should get going home
Saturday, Oct. 31, 2009
The former Marine officer Matthew Hoh, who resigned his Foreign Service post in Afghanistan because he feels the war is pointless and not worth dying for, deserves all the attention he’s gotten and more. Read story
Coffee with an old grumbler in a dark mood
Saturday, Oct. 24, 2009
A gorgeous fall here on the upper Mississippi, but among the old grumblers I drink cheap coffee with, the mood these days is dark, due to low interest rates and the advance of the glaciers, which is why I, sunny optimist that I am, seek out the company of the young and ebullient and drink $4 coffee, but sometimes you get stuck next to some old guy in a plaid shirt who gives you an earful about Wall Street bonuses and how the game is rigged in favor of the custom-tailored suits, and you must be polite and listen. Read story
More Columns by Garrison Keillor
- Petulance, presence and the Nobel Peace Prize
- Even Republicans deserve quality health care
- Culture wars keep U.S. stuck in the shallows
- Rage is all the rage out there in Politicsland
- ‘Nice 67 y.o. male’ has brush with mortality
- Vetting the pet projects in the health care issue
- United Kingdom, a place where right is right
- A postcard from the back of the airport line
- The swashbucklers of the new media world
- What do golf and the arts have in common?
- Tread lightly, be smart, listen to opposition
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Surviving the Armistice Day Blizzard in a boat
For quite a few years the Tribune had the weather forecast printed on the front page up in the left corner of each issue.
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Backgammon needs to be included
Is something wrong with the game, backgammon? Why isn’t that game included with all the others?
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