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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
Toni Michael
Published Letters: 140 Editor's Choice: 3
Yeah, and she probably wouldn't cause a scandal by having oral sex with an intern.
Garrison Keillor is one of my favorite writers, and radio-personality/host. I am so thankful for hearing his show on the radio, and once again reading his columns here on Salon.
I have shared some of the "Minnesota experience" with Garrison. In the early '70s, my husband and I and our 3 little boys lived on a farm in Minnesota (a disaster for me, a native Californian). So I deeply appreciate the stories of "Lake Wobegon": Been there, done that!
Cary, I can't believe you gave this woman the advice to go ahead and marry this guy, when she's asking if "indecision [is] a giant red flag telling me he's not the one to settle down with?"
As a woman who has hastily married not just once but twice, in spite of "giant red flags," I urge her to break off with this guy. First she needs to get herself clear on what she really wants in this life. From the little I know about her life and experience, I don't think she really wants a life immersed in a Spanish culture where she'll always remain an outsider, with only learned connections to the local realities.
Re-virgination is nothing new among Islamic women. About 30 years ago, I worked on a project involving about 50 Algerian engineers and technicians. The wife of one of them was Canadian, very intelligent and very interesting. She told me that Algerian women who went to France or Canada for their education not uncommonly sought the help of a discreet plastic surgeon in Paris to hide their sexual activity before they returned home.
"Schadenfreude" doesn't begin to describe how I feel about Abramoff's guilty plea. I'm seeing the complete collapse of this arrogant, unconstitutional administration. Yay!
So we've now got guilty pleas and truth-telling from "Duke" Cunningham, "Scooter" Libby, and now Abramoff. And DeLay's lined up in the crosshairs. Yay!
I cannot tell you how much I hope a sterling Democrat takes advantage of the Administration's gross fuck-ups, to turn our government around.
Thank you, Garrison. Our hearts beat as one. I cannot help but imagine what our history might have been if the presidency had not been stolen from Al Gore in 2000. He was well aware of al Qaida and its threats. I can't imagine that after being informed of the attacks of 9/11 he would've sat there listening to children read "My Pet Goat."
Like so many other letter writers here, I applaud GK for articulating so well what so many of us have been thinking/saying for months-to-years.
GK has the clout to pull in readers. His call for impeachment has spread out into the blog world and even radio news (NPR, anyway). As we've seen here, the vast number of readers locally agree with him, adding tactics and strategies to MAKE IT HAPPEN!
I agree with others who say a resolution of impeachment should be introduced in Congress now. Then we must focus our energies and efforts on unseating the Repugs from both the House and Senate.
Here's a link to TruthOut, http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/030206S.shtml It features a story by Rep. John Conyers, describing a meeting scheduled for last night: "Harper's Magazine is hosting a public forum entitled "Is There a Case for Impeachment?" It will be moderated by Sam Seder of Air America Radio's the Majority Report. I will be on the panel with Lewis H. Lapham, the editor of Harper's and recent author of an article I highly recommend "The Case for Impeachment" (the web article is an excerpt, get the magazine for the whole thing)."
GK is not the only one with some "gravitas" urging impeachment.
I'm afraid I must agree with Phillips and Goldberg. I never imagined my country would decline so precipitously--on the way to becoming a fascist theocracy. How colossally stupid!
As everyone else has said, Bush is both dishonest and incompetent. I just hope enough citizens are waking up to how disastrously dishonest and incompetent he has been, so we can kick out the Repugs from both the House and the Senate in November, then impeach the stupid sumbitch, along with his VP, and various other top-level officials.
Like everyone else who has responded to this column, I agree that the writer must get out now! I just wanted to add a comment based on my own experience of being "in love with" (and married to) an abusive alcoholic. No, you're not in love with him. You're in love with your fantasy of who he is. Think about it: Is the man of your dreams a man who hits you?
I thought not.
Oh, Garrison, how well I remember (I'm a couple of years older than you) taking my small children in their little "car seats"--little hammocks of canvas slung between two soft-metal hooks over the back of the front seat, with a plastic tray and some "toys" (maybe a toy steering wheel) in front of the child. My God! Such a device would get us arrested now!
I am so grateful, now, that my beautiful little granddaughter only rides in a special car seat, in the back seat, strapped in, facing toward the back, with her mother strapped in the back seat facing her, attentive to her every need.
BTW, when my children were small, we lived in Lake Wobegon... that is, we lived on a farm near a very small town in MN. So, even tho I'm a native of California, I well know life in small-town, farming communities in your state. Bless you!
Cary's advice and all the other comments above are excellent. So I would only emphasize that 2 years is a short time. Think about it like earning a degree from a 2-year college. And in this case, it'll be a degree in reaching financial freedom.
Just this evening, a friend of mine said, about approaching a difficult and disagreeable task, "I can do anything for two years!"
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
219 Democrats and one Republican join in favor of the legislation, which passed by a narrow margin
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
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