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Wednesday, July 3, 2024

The view from Lake Wobegon

Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion was pure Americana. The way a former employee apparently tried to shake him down for $$ was too. His latest column offers a reflection on the "debate" debacle.
...In the Presidents Day survey of 154 historians who’ve studied and written about the office, both liberals and conservatives and in-between, Trump winds up near the bottom, with Andrew Johnson and James Buchanan who’ve been at the bottom for a long long time. Biden is ranked in the top third, though surely there is disagreement. But this is a survey of people who did the homework, not the opinion of fools... Substack

Still, there comes a time... 

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