A Prairie Home Companion with Garrison Keillor

My little girl was born within a week of Christmas and, believe you me, conceiving one to hatch on target like that is no simple task. It takes planning and biotechnology, and the male is force-fed raw oysters, and the female must hang upside down in ...  

From Goldblog reader N.M., in reference to the intemperate Garrison Keillor:I was raised a Unitarian, and still feel that it is the denomination that has the most similar beliefs to those I hold myself.  But I want to defend Mr. Keillor's general point. Even as a child it drove me crazy that we sung Christian hymns or carols with altered lyrics.  For one, it often made them sound ridiculous.  But as I grew older it became even more troublesome...  

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My little girl was born within a week of Christmas and, believe you me, conceiving one to hatch on target like that is no simple task. It takes planning and biotechnology, and the male is force-fed raw oysters, and the female must hang upside down in a dark room for hours.  

Washington PostReviews of Christmas-themed books from Garrison Keillor and othersWashington Post-- Garrison Keillor's A Christmas Blizzard (Viking, $21.95) has clear parallels to Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" -- except it's nuttier. ...  

Columnist Dan Savage, who is without question the foremost writer and speaker on behalf of marriage equality, flames the mindless scumbag Garrison Keillor hairless in this awesome blog post: People opposed to same-sex marriage are just fucking addicted to double standards. Marriage is about children—unless you’re straight, in which case you can get married without having [...]Related PostsGarrison Keillor is a Hypocritical, Homophobic...  

Bitter, grumpy, elderly hippie Marxist douchebag Garrison Keillor vents his speen at Jewish songwriters for writing Christmas Carols. All those lousy holiday songs by Jewish guys that trash up the malls every year, Rudolph and the chestnuts and the rest...  

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Congresswoman Michele Bachmann big Garrison Keillor fanCoon Rapids ECM PublishersSixth Congressional District Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, R-Stillwater, among the fans of humorist Garrison Keillor. ...Bachmann says her rising profile helps districtWorthington Daily Globeall 6 news articles »  

Garrison Keillor thinks lousy holiday songs written by Jewish guys trash up America's malls every year.So wrote the public radio host and satirist in an article at Wednesday's Baltimore Sun called "Nonbelievers, Please Leave Christmas Alone."Given the rabid anti-Semitism in the following paragraph, one has to wonder how this piece managed to not only got published, but also escape media outrage (h/t InstaPundit via Big Hollywood): Unitarians...  

In an essay posted at Salon.com, "A Prairie Home Companion" host Garrison Keillor takes on the hot holiday topic of Christmas and altering references to the holiday to be more inclusive. He's most certainly opposed.  

Jews have been accused of many Ills by the bigots of the world, supposedly we control the banks, the media, foreign policy, and  the American Government (Thankfully Obama disproves that one). Lately Jews have been accused of creating swine flu and the housing bubble that created the economic crisis (well Barney Frank IS Jewish). During the Christmas season, many bigots revive the old anti-Semitic slander of diacide, that the Jews killed...  

The holiday season is, of course, prime time for nostalgia for bygone days and homespun homilies. And if anyone has cornered the market on those areas, it's Garrison Keillor. The Prairie Home Companion host and Lake Wobegon Days scribe has always had a merry musical bent, and he...  

I was not ready to see Bruce Springsteen bemedalled at the Kennedy Center Honors last week, and I still am not ready. It was less than a year ago the Boss did that fantastic slide across the stage on his knees at the Super Bowl halftime show, thrusting his crotch at 90 million Americans on live TV, and here he was, listening to various nobodies tell him how great he is, with a medal around his neck, and his neck looked a little jowly. The...  

In Phoenix, the bougainvillea is blooming red against a landscape of buttes and rocks outside my hotel window and interesting cactuses that look like cell phone base stations or Modigliani sculptures. Midwesterners who came here long ago slapped grass down on the desert, hoping to make it more like Indianapolis, but Phoenicians have come to accept aridity. If you enjoy rocks, you will love Arizona. But for me, it’s weird to walk outdoors and...