My weekly walk to church and back

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Garrison Keillor discusses various current events and personal reflections during his weekly walk to church.

Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more My weekly walk to church and back The Column: 04.04.25 Garrison Keillor Apr 4 READ IN APP Share We seem to be in a war against science and research, which is causing anxiety among us geezers grateful for anti-seizure meds that guard against us suddenly shaking uncontrollably on the street corner and strangers having to remember first aid from 4-H to keep us from strangling on a hot dog and when we’re not reading about that, we see news of low-frequency seismic waves that can travel for hundreds of miles underground and cause tall brick buildings to crash to the ground, which is disturbing to us in Manhattan, and then there’s news of Mr. and Mrs. JD Vance who announced their trip to Greenland to see the dogsled races only to be told, “Nobody invited you,” so they flew to the U.S. military base at Pituffik for three hours and Mr. Vance announced that Greenland needed American defense whether it wanted it or not. He did not change the name of the area to Pitiful.An interesting time we live in. And Wisconsin elected a Supreme Court judge other than the one Elon Musk favored and offered large sums of money to voters in a bid for a win.But…

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Host: Garrison Keillor

Topics covered

• science
• politics
• anxiety
• baseball
• Wisconsin
• spring

Keywords

• Garrison Keillor
• JD Vance
• Greenland
• Manhattan
• Wisconsin
• baseball
• spring

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Organizations: U.S. military, Prairie Home Companion

Places: Greenland, Manhattan

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