You seem to think that a "president of our country" deserves some sort of automatic respect.
Respect is earned, not granted. Garrison's opinions of him are well worth reading and need to continue until we're rid of this most awful example of a human being ever to come down the pike.
The lying, election-denying president of our country who gets on his wacko social media site and calls half the country "scum"? Why would anyone think such a president deserves any kind of respect or deference? It's downright absurd and frankly dangerous.
As Garrison says, "It is noble to delete." It makes me think of the famous writer Jane Austen, and now that it is the 250th anniversary of her birth, tributes are coming her way, left, right and centre. Alongside the brilliance of her prose, I have to think about how difficult it must have been not to be able to just shift text around, delete huge chunks that don't work, and check spelling and grammar at the press of the right button. Of course, I don't think she ever accidentally lost a file, which is something I've run across. Fortunately for the world, I'm no Jane Austen, so it was no big loss.
My thoughts for exiting stage left, when the time comes, is to walk into the woods in winter (where it is cold and preferably when it is snowing), take a strong sedative an hour into my walk, take off my clothes when I felt the sedative kicking in, and laying down and take my last nap.
But I really like your idea too. Except I would have to get a new pistol as my current pistols have sentimental value and I would hate to dirty them (my oldest daughter gets all my guns). AND, I think a one-hour speech would do the job.
You would think Amtrack would copy everyone else and just get an IPhone app for reservations. Every so often it would not kill government to steal ideas from private industry.
I love reading your writing first thing in the morning. It kicks my brain into fourth gear and helps me to get a lot of good things done!!! Thanks!!
This essay contains what might be among the most evocative paragraphs ever written in the English language, and a sentence I fervently hope will come to pass. Because I wish neither to be committed nor arrested, I will not specify which they are.
Thank you for continuing to speak the truth, even in short spurts, about Trump. You say that you admire the bravery of heroic journalists. You have bravery too. It's an indictment of our times to say that...that it is "brave" to speak the truth. But unfortunately, that's the case these days.
Did the “Deep State” exit stage left? Nary a word. Did Putin capitulate on Day 1? Did the Haitians stop eating the pets? Is my MIL in danger of losing her Medicaid? Glad Mr. Keillor provides you at least some modicum of reality.
Graham, a fine cracker, by the way, I'm butting in with my unsolicited two cents worth to respond to your comment to reader Gail Adams regarding what you presume to be their reading habits: See, Graham, the thing that seems to irritate you and your fellow thump-lovers is that in America (you remember that place, right? It's located adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico.), in America, we - ALL of can read anything we want, whenever we want, and talk about it with others, in public even, if we want. In America, we can even say of your vile King Midas, "King? My A*s!"
In thump's "America" and presumably yours, HE can say whatever he wants, and if he could read HE could read anything he wants, but the piggish one (Mr. Keillor is too polite by adding "--ish") wants to punish, insult or worse, anyone claims the same AMERICAN rights. He has nothing but contempt for America and America, in every way available, should hold HIM (and his whole goon squad) in contempt.
Read on, speak out, think true, rise up, Americans. That "piggish" oaf feasts on the fears his bullying hog-snorts cause. Chant this to bolster your courage: Don't fear the pig! Don't fear the pig!
Annie, in a separate comment I wrote something very similar about Garrison Keillor's use of the word "piggish." You always put things so well--please keep writing!
Dana, I replied to your kind words but for reasons I do not know my reply appeared as a reply to "Graham" beginning with my words, "You're very kind..." I tried to shift the location of that reply but no success. So, if you see it and think it's to Graham, it was not; it was a reply to YOUR "very kind" words.
Isn't it amazing? It is hard to believe, sometimes, that some people could even continue to breath, when they are so stuck up... & in far into the Sand!
Thank you. Gaslighting has terribly eroded truth. Those of us who sort through the propaganda that skews reality must never bend to fear and cave, take the easy route. Stay well 😊
I surely hope you're right! And sooner rather than later. I also greatly admire the journalists today, especially those who have the almost impossible task of questioning Trump or Karoline Leavitt. I still continue to be shocked and appalled when their non- answer is often: "don't ever ask that nasty question again." With a few personal insults thrown in. Neither feels any obligation to keeping the public informed. And certainly neither feel any obligation to speak the truth.
Graham, why are you okay with Trump saying that Haitians eat people's pets? Why are you okay with him calling half the country "scum"? Why are you okay with him trying to finagle a jumbo jet from the dictator of Qatar? Why are you okay with him sending people to a dangerous prison in El Salvador without due process? Why are you okay with him trying to acquire Bitcoin while he is the sitting president? Why are you okay with all this and so much else? You never tell us anything good about Trump, you just pop up with your silly taunts every time someone dares mention him in a negative light. Why the sensitivity and defensiveness?
You also seem to enjoy guessing where people are getting their news. Tell us, what reputable and honest news sources do you recommend?
I use to have all of what I thought were my brilliant thoughts on my laptop- indeed a whole book on my life intended for my grandchildren- until my 41 year old "thinks he knows everything" son came home and put all of my documents on Google docs. Now, if I shoot my laptop- my grandchildren can just go in the cloud and read what their grandfather thought was so important- and either shake their head or laugh, or both.
I really love this essay, but please don’t choose to press the delete button, with the voice of the orange ogre ringing in your ears. You have certainly earned the right to leave as you wish, but having a orange glow around you would not be an ideal way to start your next great adventure.
Graham, I strongly suggest that you just go away. You are not contributing anything. Being snarky is unattractive, unhealthy, unhelpful, and unwelcome.
He's an antivax conspiracy theorist who's still fuming about the lockdowns and insists that the solution is to install a corrupt, kleptocratic, totalitarian government so that we never again have to deal with science-based measures to cope with a global pandemic. A very thoughtful (?) person indeed.
Much of life is about guardrails…they quietly wait and wait till the scary moment they are needed. Then they do their job. They are part of ‘normal’ and present. And we have too many people who are not doing their jobs as our guardrails. Too much Sane-washing (who would ever have thought) the criminally insane.
We all know that what is happening in our country is a danger to democracy’s future. We have a ‘wanna-be’ dictatorial person who believes he has no need for guardrails as they are just impediments to his insanity! And too few on his own side will call him and his minions what they are...incompetent fools.
Are they scared? Don’t see any positive outcomes if they stand up? Hope breaking America will somehow produce what they want?
I have fond memories of my dad sitting in his white boxer shorts during the summer in St.Peter,Mn (no air conditioning in our home), at his Underwood typing and typing and typing. He was working on a novel about the Vikings and Rune stones. I have his rough draft copies, complete with the carbon paper that went between the 2 sheets of typing paper. Holding those in my hands is like holding on to a little piece of him. I think that deletion as well as rejection are a part of the reality of being a writer. I also have several rejections from Readers Digest for various submissions of his. Treasures in their own right representing his perseverance pursuing his passion. And as the story goes, perseverance got the snail to the ark.
How in the hell do you come up with this stuff? You are so damn brainwashed or under some kind of spell, you wouldn't see what's there even if it bit you. You definitely have the right to your opinion even if it is lopsided.
Graham, go back to what I said before. You're not saying anything to help your cause. You're just insulting people. Of course I have a right to my opinion!
Reading it. Very good. I’m not a Catholic.
Reading it. Very good. I’m not a Catholic.
Mr Keillor does not make negative comments about the felon. He simply speaks the truth.
Thank you
I agree with Chuck and Pam.
Thanks for the comment: I did bring that up tp Dana but of course received no response
When the president stops doing everything he can to harm the average American citizen we can TACO bout it. 🐔
You seem to think that a "president of our country" deserves some sort of automatic respect.
Respect is earned, not granted. Garrison's opinions of him are well worth reading and need to continue until we're rid of this most awful example of a human being ever to come down the pike.
Wow what a bunch of TDS people you are.
The president deserves all the negative comments he can get.
The lying, election-denying president of our country who gets on his wacko social media site and calls half the country "scum"? Why would anyone think such a president deserves any kind of respect or deference? It's downright absurd and frankly dangerous.
Felt like I was in the Shire which is a good place to be! Thank you for your writing!
As Garrison says, "It is noble to delete." It makes me think of the famous writer Jane Austen, and now that it is the 250th anniversary of her birth, tributes are coming her way, left, right and centre. Alongside the brilliance of her prose, I have to think about how difficult it must have been not to be able to just shift text around, delete huge chunks that don't work, and check spelling and grammar at the press of the right button. Of course, I don't think she ever accidentally lost a file, which is something I've run across. Fortunately for the world, I'm no Jane Austen, so it was no big loss.
Lifelong fan of your writing, Garrison. Thank you!
My thoughts for exiting stage left, when the time comes, is to walk into the woods in winter (where it is cold and preferably when it is snowing), take a strong sedative an hour into my walk, take off my clothes when I felt the sedative kicking in, and laying down and take my last nap.
But I really like your idea too. Except I would have to get a new pistol as my current pistols have sentimental value and I would hate to dirty them (my oldest daughter gets all my guns). AND, I think a one-hour speech would do the job.
You would think Amtrack would copy everyone else and just get an IPhone app for reservations. Every so often it would not kill government to steal ideas from private industry.
I love reading your writing first thing in the morning. It kicks my brain into fourth gear and helps me to get a lot of good things done!!! Thanks!!
This essay contains what might be among the most evocative paragraphs ever written in the English language, and a sentence I fervently hope will come to pass. Because I wish neither to be committed nor arrested, I will not specify which they are.
Thank you for continuing to speak the truth, even in short spurts, about Trump. You say that you admire the bravery of heroic journalists. You have bravery too. It's an indictment of our times to say that...that it is "brave" to speak the truth. But unfortunately, that's the case these days.
D. Lemieur
You have a very strange idea about what is truth.
Did the “Deep State” exit stage left? Nary a word. Did Putin capitulate on Day 1? Did the Haitians stop eating the pets? Is my MIL in danger of losing her Medicaid? Glad Mr. Keillor provides you at least some modicum of reality.
I suspect you are probably a loyal New York times reader.
Got the wrong suspect there Inspector Clouseau.
I really don't believe so.
Ibid.
Graham, a fine cracker, by the way, I'm butting in with my unsolicited two cents worth to respond to your comment to reader Gail Adams regarding what you presume to be their reading habits: See, Graham, the thing that seems to irritate you and your fellow thump-lovers is that in America (you remember that place, right? It's located adjacent to the Gulf of Mexico.), in America, we - ALL of can read anything we want, whenever we want, and talk about it with others, in public even, if we want. In America, we can even say of your vile King Midas, "King? My A*s!"
In thump's "America" and presumably yours, HE can say whatever he wants, and if he could read HE could read anything he wants, but the piggish one (Mr. Keillor is too polite by adding "--ish") wants to punish, insult or worse, anyone claims the same AMERICAN rights. He has nothing but contempt for America and America, in every way available, should hold HIM (and his whole goon squad) in contempt.
Read on, speak out, think true, rise up, Americans. That "piggish" oaf feasts on the fears his bullying hog-snorts cause. Chant this to bolster your courage: Don't fear the pig! Don't fear the pig!
Love,
Charlotte, Babe, Piglet, Porky...
I think I love you.
I must say you birds of a feather do flock together. What Americans are you suggesting rise up?
I know I do!
Go, Annie, go!
Annie, in a separate comment I wrote something very similar about Garrison Keillor's use of the word "piggish." You always put things so well--please keep writing!
Dana, I replied to your kind words but for reasons I do not know my reply appeared as a reply to "Graham" beginning with my words, "You're very kind..." I tried to shift the location of that reply but no success. So, if you see it and think it's to Graham, it was not; it was a reply to YOUR "very kind" words.
Tell it sister !!!
Isn't it amazing? It is hard to believe, sometimes, that some people could even continue to breath, when they are so stuck up... & in far into the Sand!
OMG Graham. Open your eyes and ears, read and watch something and someone intelligent, and pay attention.
Who is this so called intelligent one I should watch and listen to?
Thank you. Gaslighting has terribly eroded truth. Those of us who sort through the propaganda that skews reality must never bend to fear and cave, take the easy route. Stay well 😊
I surely hope you're right! And sooner rather than later. I also greatly admire the journalists today, especially those who have the almost impossible task of questioning Trump or Karoline Leavitt. I still continue to be shocked and appalled when their non- answer is often: "don't ever ask that nasty question again." With a few personal insults thrown in. Neither feels any obligation to keeping the public informed. And certainly neither feel any obligation to speak the truth.
You need to stop wearing your dark gothic glasses!
That you can turn a blind eye to what is obvious suggests you are the one in need of glasses.
Graham, why are you okay with Trump saying that Haitians eat people's pets? Why are you okay with him calling half the country "scum"? Why are you okay with him trying to finagle a jumbo jet from the dictator of Qatar? Why are you okay with him sending people to a dangerous prison in El Salvador without due process? Why are you okay with him trying to acquire Bitcoin while he is the sitting president? Why are you okay with all this and so much else? You never tell us anything good about Trump, you just pop up with your silly taunts every time someone dares mention him in a negative light. Why the sensitivity and defensiveness?
You also seem to enjoy guessing where people are getting their news. Tell us, what reputable and honest news sources do you recommend?
I use to have all of what I thought were my brilliant thoughts on my laptop- indeed a whole book on my life intended for my grandchildren- until my 41 year old "thinks he knows everything" son came home and put all of my documents on Google docs. Now, if I shoot my laptop- my grandchildren can just go in the cloud and read what their grandfather thought was so important- and either shake their head or laugh, or both.
I really love this essay, but please don’t choose to press the delete button, with the voice of the orange ogre ringing in your ears. You have certainly earned the right to leave as you wish, but having a orange glow around you would not be an ideal way to start your next great adventure.
I like pigs. Please do not insult them re that human. Humans are actually the dirtiest of animals… the litter they leave behind saddens me.
Wow! What world do you live in?
Graham, I strongly suggest that you just go away. You are not contributing anything. Being snarky is unattractive, unhealthy, unhelpful, and unwelcome.
Another information-free taunt from Graham, who always rushes to defend his cult leader, never telling us why.
Methinks the cracker is a bot.
He's an antivax conspiracy theorist who's still fuming about the lockdowns and insists that the solution is to install a corrupt, kleptocratic, totalitarian government so that we never again have to deal with science-based measures to cope with a global pandemic. A very thoughtful (?) person indeed.
Much of life is about guardrails…they quietly wait and wait till the scary moment they are needed. Then they do their job. They are part of ‘normal’ and present. And we have too many people who are not doing their jobs as our guardrails. Too much Sane-washing (who would ever have thought) the criminally insane.
We all know that what is happening in our country is a danger to democracy’s future. We have a ‘wanna-be’ dictatorial person who believes he has no need for guardrails as they are just impediments to his insanity! And too few on his own side will call him and his minions what they are...incompetent fools.
Are they scared? Don’t see any positive outcomes if they stand up? Hope breaking America will somehow produce what they want?
What do they even want?!
They don’t want guardrails, that is for sure.
Crash and burn…
Guardrails are an impediment to his insanity. Well said. You nailed it !
I have fond memories of my dad sitting in his white boxer shorts during the summer in St.Peter,Mn (no air conditioning in our home), at his Underwood typing and typing and typing. He was working on a novel about the Vikings and Rune stones. I have his rough draft copies, complete with the carbon paper that went between the 2 sheets of typing paper. Holding those in my hands is like holding on to a little piece of him. I think that deletion as well as rejection are a part of the reality of being a writer. I also have several rejections from Readers Digest for various submissions of his. Treasures in their own right representing his perseverance pursuing his passion. And as the story goes, perseverance got the snail to the ark.
So right and so wrong at the same time!
See, Graham? You never actually say anything except "Leave my cult leader alone!"
How in the hell do you come up with this stuff? You are so damn brainwashed or under some kind of spell, you wouldn't see what's there even if it bit you. You definitely have the right to your opinion even if it is lopsided.
Graham, go back to what I said before. You're not saying anything to help your cause. You're just insulting people. Of course I have a right to my opinion!
Graham, I really appreciate your brave efforts here but I am afraid the TDS is strong with this crowd.
GK has it painfully bad. He can't seem to avoid messing up a decent column without slipping in a shot at Trump.
It would help if he would mention the Biden fiasco and what the Left would do about the illegals, crime, Ukraine, etc.
I find such comfort in your prose. It helps me to not feel alone. God bless you sir.