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Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:00 PST By Garrison Keillor Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2010/02/09/democrats/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2010/02/09/democrats/index.html?source=rss This country loves its hustlers and slick operators, but it's hard work that gets you through the rough patches By Garrison Keillor Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2010/01/26/republican_anger/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2010/01/26/republican_anger/index.html?source=rss Republicans have decided that defeating Obama is more important than passing healthcare By Garrison Keillor Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2010/01/19/tea_partiers/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2010/01/19/tea_partiers/index.html?source=rss A murky healthcare bill that no one can explain emerged from the intricate web of compromises. Must be dangerous! By Garrison Keillor Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2010/01/12/anonymity/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2010/01/12/anonymity/index.html?source=rss There is no better place to learn the delicate ballet of social skill than in a big city By Garrison Keillor Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2010/01/05/vacation_cruise/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2010/01/05/vacation_cruise/index.html?source=rss Forget the mediocre food. It's the village life we love about a cruise -- the people watching, the eavesdropping By Garrison Keillor Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/12/29/2009_12_29_paradise/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/12/29/2009_12_29_paradise/index.html?source=rss In warm Southern climes, one man's warrior view of the Great Giver of Truth gives way to a hedonistic pantheism By Garrison Keillor Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/12/22/christmas_baby/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/12/22/christmas_baby/index.html?source=rss In a 10th Avenue deli, an elegant girl from the prairie manages a herd of damaged boys with grace and good humor By Garrison Keillor Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/12/15/cambridge/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/12/15/cambridge/index.html?source=rss It's a Christian holiday, dammit, and it's plain wrong to rewrite "Silent Night." Unitarians, I'm talking to you! By Garrison Keillor Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/12/08/new_york/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/12/08/new_york/index.html?source=rss If you're tired of enforced joyfulness, go to New York: Christmas has some opposition there By Garrison Keillor Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/12/01/truth_of_christmas/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/12/01/truth_of_christmas/index.html?source=rss The truth of Christmas -- rejoice and show mercy to the poor -- is tested as we move toward universal healthcare By Garrison Keillor Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/11/24/thanksgiving/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/11/24/thanksgiving/index.html?source=rss On Thanksgiving we gather among our kin who know us a little too well, and put civility to a true test By Garrison Keillor Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/11/17/art_appreciation/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/11/17/art_appreciation/index.html?source=rss Still lifes of flowers? Why bother. The true calling of an artist is to paint the naked female form By Garrison Keillor Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/11/10/republicans/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/11/10/republicans/index.html?source=rss The way to fight Republicans is to make them think you like them. It'll scare them into passing the thing By Garrison Keillor Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/11/03/variety_pack/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/11/03/variety_pack/index.html?source=rss Some people thrive on the predictable, others keep rewriting their lives. A healthy society needs both By Garrison Keillor Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/10/27/matthew_hoh/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/10/27/matthew_hoh/index.html?source=rss We don't admire quitters, but no one wants to be the last person to believe in a mission, either By Garrison Keillor Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/10/20/old_grumblers/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/10/20/old_grumblers/index.html?source=rss That's why I seek out the young and ebullient. They don't worry about interest rates because they have no savings By Garrison Keillor Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/10/14/nobel_peace_prize/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/10/14/nobel_peace_prize/index.html?source=rss Praying the country will slip into chaos, to make Obama look bad, is not a good place for a political party to be By Garrison Keillor Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/10/07/healthcare_for_republicans/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/10/07/healthcare_for_republicans/index.html?source=rss Even people who oppose regulation and don't mind manufacturing hamburger contaminated by E. coli deserve healthcare By Garrison Keillor Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/09/30/the_shallows/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/09/30/the_shallows/index.html?source=rss Let them make do with aspirin and hand sanitizer. Meanwhile, the money we save will pay off the deficit By Garrison Keillor Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/09/23/the_right/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/09/23/the_right/index.html?source=rss It's as American as rock 'n' roll, but there's a price for being an angry jerk By Garrison Keillor Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/09/16/mortality/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/09/16/mortality/index.html?source=rss It was pretty clear how lucky I was to be walking out of that hospital relatively unscathed By Garrison Keillor Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/09/02/healthcare/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/09/02/healthcare/index.html?source=rss Want empathy? Send weepy pet parents to town hall meetings waving photos of kittycats in need of new kidneys By Garrison Keillor Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/08/26/keillor/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/08/26/keillor/index.html?source=rss A few puffs of smoke from the other side and you're ready for martyrdom? Get a grip By Garrison Keillor Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/08/19/london/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/08/19/london/index.html?source=rss Like many an English major, I go to the motherland for the language. I am never disappointed By Garrison Keillor Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:02:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/08/12/new_media/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/keillor/2009/08/12/new_media/index.html?source=rss Millions of people have discovered the joys of seeing yourself in print. Unfortunately, no one's making a dime