I knew Garrison Keillor was a Democrat, but I still liked his show. His humor was gentle and kindly, based on memories of his youth in a small town. He seemed to be in touch with that simple, self-deprecating sense of humor that most good people have.

But there were cracks in the facade and today it split wide open in a vicious attack on Norm Coleman, as reported on Best of the Web. I read his book, Lake Wobegon Days, a while back in which he penned a huge footnote, based on Luther's 95 theses, laying out his hatred for religion.


I didn't read his most recent book, since I'd heard him read a selection from it about farts and then another about his teenaged sexual fantasies. Maybe he's going through analysis (You can't have analysis without "anal.") or something, but this kind of stuff is not good literature. It gets laughs because it makes the audience uncomfortable. It's been done a lot better in Catcher in the Rye and Ulysses. It's even been done better by Buddy Hackett.

So now Garrison is emulating Michael Moore. So that's the news from the bitter Left, where all the women are loose, all the men are frustrated, and all the egos are above average.