I love Garrison Keillor, and his common sense wisdom

From Lake Woebegone, his 'Prairie Home Companion' touts good ol' down home, Mid American values, which clash with the Orange Clown in the White House, as he points out in today's article.

 (As you mature, different experiences) lead you out into the world beyond your ego and into unexpected friendships and discoveries, valuable experiences, an enduring respect for laws and limits and for the energy of optimism, and eventually you can learn to be a good person.

This is common wisdom, shared by stubborn conservatives and airy liberals alike, and no wonder we are all fascinated by the raging alien who is president of the United States. The smirk, the scowl, the New Yawk con man talk — so-and-so is a “great, great guy,” it was a “beautiful meeting,” the “incredible support,” “fantastic,” “unbelievable” — the compulsive bragging, the inability to admit mistakes, the blindness to ethics. What is this jerk doing in the White House? How soon will he disappear?

Garrison Keillor is an author, entertainer and former host of “A Prairie Home Companion.”