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Free fat grams for veterans day
Norwegianity —
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They serve and fight for their country, and this is how we repay them? Then again, maybe a bacon quesadilla cheeseburger would sound good to one of Minnesota’s 4,000 homeless vets . - In a rare bit of good news, Jeff Huber says it’s bullshit that Obama has decided to send more troops to Afghanistan . ...14 hours ago -
An AAHSA Home Companion
The Future of Aging Blog —
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Early on Tuesday, a thick crowd clustered in front of the doors of McCormick Place’s Arie Crown Theater for a chance to hear perhaps the most anticipated speaker of the 2009 AAHSA Annual Meeting, National Public Radio star Garrison Keillor.Keillor, a 67-year old fixture of public radio for more than 30 years on his ...1 day ago -
half a lifetime?
Neil Gaiman's Journal —
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The editor at CBS Sunday Morning asked if I had any photos of my son Mike back at the period when I first had the idea for The Graveyard Book - late 1985. I looked. We really didnt have any. I wandered next door and asked Mary (his mum, my former wife and for these last five years my friend and next-door neighbour) ...1 day ago -
5 things you can’t miss this weekend
Des Moines Register Staff Blogs Entertainment in Des Moines —
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Below are your top five weekend events. Get more details on Arenacross at Wells Fargo Arena here , and on the Wild Rose Independent Film Festival here. [There is a video that cannot be displayed in this feed. Visit the blog entry to see the video.] 1. Friday: St. Lawrence String Quartet The ...6 days ago -
Pounding Rand up their asses
Norwegianity —
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From the Strib : Bill Owens beat Sarah Palin/Tim Pawlenty-endorsed Doug Hoffman in NY23, and dirty-as-hell-and-twice-as-corrupt former USAG Chris Christie is the new governor of New Jersey. CA10 just moved considerably to the left. Oh, and Breckinridge overwhelmingly legalized pot and paraphernalia. ...1 week ago -
We Need More Norwegian Nisse’s This Year
The Confessional Outhouse —
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Not to ape all the stores this year and start talking about Christmas way, way before its time. And not to lend any credence to forms of paganism that would that deal with us according to our sins, or repay us according to our iniquities. But sometimes some pagan folktales do humanity a better service than other ...1 week ago -
The Friday Mixtape: All Souls Edition, 10/30/09
Popdose —
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Welcome back. Are you feeling comfortable? Good. Right about now, you’re sitting casually in your seat, perhaps in a chair staring at the monitor, perhaps bundled up on the couch, wrapped in your Snuggie, your laptop buzzing on your lap with the warmth of its underside providing a pleasant sensation there. ...1 week ago -
When the Tough Should Get Going
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
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By Garrison Keillor 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 THE WHOLE ITEM Related Entries October 27, 2009 Of Laureates and ...1 week ago -
The Flu Bugaboo
Blogs —
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With another flu season upon us and the H1N1 ("swine flu") virus looming large in our imaginations, we are in the midst of another predictable conversation over the merits of public vaccination programs. Vaccination is one of those thorny issues, like evolutionary theory, where the controversy in public opinion is ...2 weeks ago -
Words of Wisdom Wednesday: Notable Quotables
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I couldnt resist posting some of my favorite quotes about the dynamic of the father-daughter relationship. What are some of your favorites? Id love to hear them! "Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ...2 weeks ago -
The sporting life
Norwegianity —
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Painful choice tonight: first game of the World Series , or the first game of the Timberwolves 2009-2010 NBA season ? I’ll watch both, obviously. That’s why I have a TV and a computer. I’m just glad I never had to try to listen to two different games on the radio at once. - A sea change at the ...2 weeks ago -
Keillor as Motivational Speaker?
The Daily Clog —
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Bring out your country roots and monotone voice, because Garrison Keillor is coming to town ! The Minnesota native and “Prairie Home Companion” radio star is hitting up Zellerbach Hall this Wednesday, Oct. 28th at 8 p.m. It’s not surprising that an intellectual humorist like Keillor would end up at Berkeley. ...2 weeks ago -
The Wege of Earl
Norwegianity —
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The shame of this discovery won’t be going away anytime soon: Michele Marie Amble was born in 1956 into a family of Norwegian Lutheran Democrats. When she was young, they moved from Iowa to Minnesota…. Yes, Michele Bachmann is a fellow Iowegian . [ via ] Add to that ignominy a new Garrison Keillor column ...3 weeks ago -
The Children of Lake Wobegon
The Confessional Outhouse —
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Suckled on the modernist work ethic, some Presbyterian parents may love it when kids talk about rebelling against low expectations and “returning to biblical and historical levels of character and competence” (where’d I put my WWJD bracelet?). But I daresay Garrison Keillor’s Upper Midwestern upbringing ...3 weeks ago -
5QQ: Vivian Schiller
Mediaite —
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Photo: Michael Benabib, 2008 " title="Schiller" width="200" height="300" class="size-medium wp-image-36106" /> Photo: Michael Benabib, 2008 Vivian Schiller is the president and CEO of National Public Radio, which she joined at the end of 2008 after seven years at The New York Times Co. During her tenure at ...3 weeks ago -
From the "Civics 101" file.
Upper Left —
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Garrison Keillor, via Missouri Mule ... Conservatism is a powerful strain in American life that ordinarily passes as common sense. Save for a rainy day. Dont foul the nest. Dont burn your bridges. Dont sacrifice the future for short-term profit. But when it contradicts itself and becomes weighted down with ...3 weeks ago -
Keillor on the Nobel
My Point Exactly —
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Garrison Keillor (of Lake Wobegon fame), writing on Salon, answers pundits who say President Barack Obama should have declined the Nobel Peace Prize: … it is not gracious to reject a compliment, one should accept it with becoming modesty, as Mr. Obama did, that’s what your mother brought you up to do. The ...4 weeks ago -
Move On
Yo Mama For Obama —
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You gotta read this Op-Ed by Garrison Keillor, which was printed in the New York Times today:http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/15/opinion/15iht-edkeillor.html?_r=1&ref=globalWith just a touch of appropriate irreverence coupled with a sufficient dose of honesty that aptly describes the current state of the Republican ...4 weeks ago -
Wednesday Wordplay: Miles Davis, Oprah and “cactus legs”
Chicago Theater Blog —
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Quotables Your best shot at happiness, self-worth and personal satisfaction – the things that constitute real success – is not in earning as much as you can but in performing as well as you can something that you consider worthwhile. — William Raspberry It’s a shallow life ...4 weeks ago -
Turning Minnesotan
Fifty is the New... —
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For Christie Healey, adapting to the Midwest brings a new approach to life’s challenges. Garrison Keillor, the Upper Midwest’s patron saint of wit, created a hometown for himself called Lake Woebegon, Minnesota. As the name suggests, there will always be woe, but how we respond is the key to when it will be ...4 weeks ago
