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Wednesday, March 14, 2007 12:00 AM

Stating the obvious

Nature doesn't care about the emotional well-being of older people. It's about the continuation of the species -- in other words, children.

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  • Tuesday, March 13, 2007 07:42 PM

    For all of Garrison Keillor's jawboning

    about how wholesome life was back in the olden days when he gathered around the old crackerbarrel for a racy game of checkers, when men were men and women were housewives, etc., that's not exactly how he's lived HIS life, is it? I'm sure there are a lot of gay parents who have lived less--as he says--flamboyant lives than he has, with his multiple marriages and putting his children through hyphenated and complicated extended families. How can he be so judgmental when his life as a famous person is so publicly flawed? And I am sorry, but his comments about gay men are just absolutely offensive, even if he does try to qualify them.

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