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Tread lightly, be smart, listen to opposition
Saturday, July 25, 2009
It’s good to hear that the FCC is back in business, thinking about the Internet and wireless telecommunications and not so much about assessing huge fines to broadcasters who say “poop” on the air. The new chairman, Julius Genachowski, is a 46-year-old venture capitalist who is more interested in technological advances and bringing high-speed access to all Americans, and so the world moves on. Thank you, sir. How a guy so young came to be named Julius is a question for another time.
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The beauty of ordinariness in a cruel world
Saturday, July 18, 2009
A summer Sunday in an old Midwestern river town, walking down the avenue under the elms past yards burgeoning, with vinous and hedgy things and multicolored flowerage, the industry of each homeowner shown in the beauty offered to the passerby. Read story
Health care issues await the sausage factory
Saturday, July 11, 2009
It was a good Fourth of July where I was — no Republicans or Democrats, just a crowd of sunburned people sitting on the grass, and a brass band played amid the smell of hot dogs, and Clarence and Ralph, two World War II vets, described their European tour of 1944-45 from Normandy through the Hurtgen Forest, and it was duly noted that the Revolution was not going well in the summer of 1776 when Jefferson, Adams, Franklin and Hancock put their names to the Declaration of Independence, an act of treason and great bravado, and then the crowd stood and sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” and discovered that, in the key of G, it is a fine piece of music and very singable. And people know the words.
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Unalienable rights include decent potato salad
Saturday, July 4, 2009
I didn’t lean down for a close look at the books they were reading -- I was not brought up to do that -- so perhaps bodices were being ripped and stalkers were stalking and meteorites were heading straight for earth, but no matter. Books were being read!
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More Columns by Garrison Keillor
- A desire for solitude can be a good motivator
- Take a road trip for Father’s Day to the west
- An uplifting performance during a bad month
- Museum fatigue sets in at the National Mall
- Stop the presses, the ones used for trousers
- It is tempting to go join the Republican Party
- Drama for mama keeps the family wondering
- Retribution vs. restoration and the body politic
- Sandwich, please; hold the salami and cheese
- At the end of the day, the poet gets the girl
- The poetry of spring works its way up north
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Appreciation of art in the city of big shoulders
I was in Chicago with time on my hands and the sweet woman murmured to me — you know how this goes — “Would you like to see the Art Institute?” and I was thinking No No No God No, and I said, “Sure. Fine.” “You wouldn’t rather do something else?” she said. “No,” I replied. That’s the correct answer when a woman asks you about art. Yes, absolutely, ma cherie. Read story
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Youth for Christ changed perspective
I recently received this note from a past “youth” involved at Youth for Christ. We recently had our annual banquet with more than 400 people in attendance, for which we are very grateful; this is one more Youth for Christ story we want to share with your readers. Read story
