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The Associated Press reports: Garrison Keillor, the former host of “A Prairie Home Companion,” says he’s been fired by Minnesota Public Radio over allegations of improper behavior. Keillor told The Associated Press of his firing in an email. In a follow-up statement, he says he was fired over “a story that I think is more interesting and more complicated than …

“Well Jim and John had to share a room one night in a hotel. Jim said ‘I snore so bad I doubt you’ll sleep that well.’ And John kissed him on the cheek. He said ‘Sweetheart, it’s alright.’ Jim went and sat in a chair and he stayed awake all night.” – Garrison Keillor, in a song he performed this …

I didn’t comment on last week’s mini-furor about A Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor’s Salon.com essay that seemed to slam gay marriage, because knowing Keillor’s deadpan delivery so well, I thought the piece was pure satire. The country has come to accept stereotypical gay men — sardonic fellows with fussy hair who live in over-decorated apartments with a striped …