My Mom's potato salad differed a bit from many of the recommendations here. Maybe that's because she's Southern and probably because, too, as a widow she worked to support 4 young children and her meals were always of a necessity simple and fast. I still remember her potato salad: she peeled and cubed her potatoes before cooking and she boiled the eggs along with the potatoes in salted water. The potatoes cook faster that way and cooking the eggs with the potatoes freed up another burner on her busy stove. While the cooked potatoes drained and cooled a bit, she continued frying the chicken (the trick to that is to get enough practice at it;one has to fry a lot of chickens over an extended period to produce consistently edible fried chicken).

After the potatoes drained and cooled, she peeled and chopped the eggs, added some regular onion (there were no green onions in the produce section of the grocery store in that small town), a good bit of sweet pickle relish, maybe some celery if she had it, and a perfect blend of mayo and mustard, with a bit of salt and pepper. I can still remember the taste: the very freshness of it, which is why I truly despise the concoction from our grocery store chains.

Here ya go Garrsion ya good old boy you. And your many fans. A little info from Salon's own Glenn Greenwald in today's column.

The interrogation and detention regime implemented by the U.S. resulted in the deaths of over 100 detainees in U.S. custody -- at least. While some of those deaths were the result of "rogue" interrogators and agents, many were caused by the methods authorized at the highest levels of the Bush White House, including extreme stress positions, hypothermia, sleep deprivation and others. Aside from the fact that they cause immense pain, that's one reason we've always considered those tactics to be "torture" when used by others -- because they inflict serious harm, and can even kill people. Those arguing against investigations and prosecutions -- that we Look to the Future, not the Past -- are thus literally advocating that numerous people get away with murder.

No Keillor-we wouldn't want to investigate this would we now? And we sure as hell don't want to prosecute good American;s for torture and murder do we? You sorry son of a bitch. You, and your fans, are a perfect example of the hypocrisy that is America today!!! Does my language seem a little extreme? Fuck you!

You are adorable.

Thanks for changing the world by pointing out your extreme disagreement with the Keillor's position on torture prosecution....from 3 months ago. Because we all know that the lynchpin of the prosecution was riding Keillor's position in his Salon column. Nice work.

Keillor's opinion being three months old soamhow renders it meaningless. It is the accumulation of opinion, especially the opinion of well known people, that influences what happens in this country. The fact that Keillor comes down on the side of torturers and murderers may not be the final or most influential word on the issue, but it does matter. And Fuck You too-you apologist for a torture apologist.

You know what...I read the article enjoyed it but I certainly remembered the torture position from months ago and I think that Prosecute Bush made a good point with the "oh were so american" script.

I wrote about it then and I still can't forget that allowing torture is apparently part of being American now. I live in MN. I call the midwest my home. I still feel that Garrison's position was inexplicable and nonsensical and I say this with a heavy heart.

The homilies and heartwarming stories are self justification now. I mean to go on and on about how bad nixon was and advocate forgetting torture is beyond the pale. I would also say that the visceral reaction that I sense from Prosecute Bush and I feel is out of a sense of betrayal.

BTW raw onions, cracked pepper, horseradish mustard, and certainly skin on, and if you are gonna use paprika use smoked paprika and actually get some flavor out of it.

But yeah it does seem kinda weird to care about "real" potato salad and agribusiness when you can justify not even investigating torture in the hope that you will be able to trade that kind of corruption for healthcare. Healthcare that is now being slowly sucked of it's real impact.

In reading this piece,I could actually taste My Mothers Potato Salad. Then I could actually taste My Aunts Prune Cake (with the quarter inch of Glaze on top).Then I could actually taste My Grandmothers Fried Chicken and homemade Biscuits.After actually tasting all these delights I suddenly became a bit depressed,because all of the aforementioned People are long gone,along with the twice yearly Family Reunions in which all of these delights were assembled and DEVOURED.But,on the bright side,it occurred to Me that maybe I could resurrect this long gone tradition.But if nothing else-I have been told that I am brutally honest,so being brutally honest with myself, I know I never will.But it was wonderful reliving those delights and those times--even if just for a short while. Tommie27.

The Democrats will squander the power the voters have given them.

They have no backbone.

They have no core values.

And forgive me my extreme language about Keillor and the other torture apologists and their supporters. That these people can/are treated with respect is just contemptible and the very opposite of what the country claims to be.

Tortuireing people to death is not a subject people can respectfully disagree about. You either support evil or you oppose it. there is no middle ground. TORTURE IS FUCKING EVIL!!!

As the creator of Popz' Primo Potato Salad, I think I have some authority in this matter. Ahem. Sweet relish in potato salad? You should be waterboarded. Dill, dill, dill!

As far as torture is concerned, Mr. Keillor must be regarded as an expert, having subjected us to his poetry and singing for lo, these many years. Fortunately, most of have a choice and quit subjecting ourselves to his enhanced interrogation techniques years ago.