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Dude, when was the last time you laughed out loud at a federal budget proposal?
One bit, but I recommend the whole post:
“The Republican proposal, as you might expect, doesn’t actually have a health care plan. But it does have this: “Republicans will be on the side of quality versus mediocrity, affordability versus unsustainable debt, [...]

I just spent half an hour at work reading this series of reflections about grief. It’s beautiful and generous and, in an odd way, fascinating. I have never lost someone in my immediate family or experienced gut-wrenching, long-term grief, though I have (ineptly, unhelpfully) watched friends and family do so. I’m grateful to writers who [...]

“Everybody knows constructively channeled anger doesn’t really count. It’s like diet pizza.”
Work slowed down for, like, a minute, so I’m reading op-eds and shooting for a record three blog posts this week.

On the first Friday of every month, I meet a lady in a driveway to pick up 11 pounds of assorted frozen meat. The cool foodies here subscribe to CSAs (community supported agriculture) for weekly boxes of fresh produce from a local farm; we’ve taken it a step weirder for our monthly hook-up of pasture-raised [...]

When we moved into a house with a yard, planting a vegetable garden was high on our list of domestic projects. We’d bought a how-to book on gardening before we left the apartment, but, not aroused by the idea of growing turnips and beets, decided to wait until spring to begin. (Also, Bryan was busy [...]