Garrison Keillor and the runaway sex harassment train

All right – now it's personal. For weeks, I've been riding a wave of schadenfreude, smoothly enjoying liberal actors and celebrities getting crushed under the swell of sexual assault allegations.  The tremor Ronan Farrow unleashed with his exposé on Harvey Weinstein in the pages of The New Yorker was a cultural event of tectonic plate-shifting importance.  Going forth, we'll reference things with a new cultural marker: pre-Weinstein and post-Weinstein. I was thoroughly enjoying the post-Weinstein world.  But then things changed.  My wave of pompous pleasure crashed on the shoals of someone unexpected: Garrison Keillor. The raconteur of Lake Wobegon was unceremoniously fired from Minnesota Public Radio after spending a lifetime creating it.  The details are spotty, but, according to Keillor, the poet and entertainer stands accused of caressing a woman's back inappropriately while trying to console her.  His intention...(Read Full Post)

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