Garrison Keillor

Fast food nihilism, CRISPR kits and dead head transplants + this day in history w/the murder of Natalie Wood and our song of the day by Ty Segall on your Morning Monarchy for November 29, 2017.

Do one ever accused Louisiana Senator Bill Cassidy (R) of being a moderate. He hasn't been in the Senate long and he's already run up one of the worst voting records of any member. ProgressivePunch rates him an "F," of course, but an F that equates to a 5.19, worse than extremists like Ted Cruz (R-TX), Mike Lee (R-UT), Roy Blunt (R-MO) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA) for example.

Public radio storyteller Garrison Keillor signed off his last show over the July Fourth weekend, leaving behind an adoring audience which he chose not to challenge with “prophetic” critiques of America, writes Sam Husseini. By Sam Husseini On what was…Read more →

By Sam Husseini | July 4, 2016 On what was billed as his last show, Garrison Keillor, host of “A Prairie Home Companion” got a call from President Barack Obama and they traded extensive compliments, with Keillor telling Obama he was “the coolest president.” Keillor’s signing off on July 4 weekend was likely calculated to […]

This cover was trickier than we civilians probably would have thought, since how, after all, do you illustrate black holes, which can't be seen?

The cover story of the February 2014 NationalGeographic is "The New Science of the Brain."by KenI don't know how long National Geographic was including a monthly geography quiz on the mailing insert that includes the subscriber's address on subscription copies before I noticed it. But however long it was, it spared me that many months' or more likely years' worth of humiliation.