Since 1974, Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion has aired every weekend on 600 NPR stations with 4 million enthusiastic listeners. Keillor once tried to retire and he failed, but he now says that he is serious about it. I hope they broadcast from the archives, because I never tire of hearing his stories again and again. Sam Anderson describes Keillor's humor as "polite, understated and deliberately anachronistic; it never breaks a sweat. When he speaks, blood pressures drop across the country (and) wild horses accept the saddle." Keillor certainly has his detractors. Feminists complain about the lack of positive images of women. Instead there are housewives, who, during the long Midwest winters, draw the "noose of Christianity" so tightly around their men's necks that they flee to their fishing shacks for days at a time/Nick Gier, for the Moscow-Pullman Daily News "His View" section. More here.

Question: Are you a fan of Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion"?

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