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I’ve been a little horrified at the “health care reform will abandon old people in the desert to die” meme circulating among (what passes for legitimate news sources on) the Right, so it’s nice to see a mild-mannered, mainstream columnist call a spade a spade.

From today’s New York Times: How I Learned to Love Goat Meat. We’re so proud to be on the bleeding edge of yuppie lifestyle.

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 [...]

Bryan’s paper deadline is today, and I’m excited to see more (well, any) of him again. He’d been rolling in from the office between midnight and 3am for the last week, but he ended the run with a 32-hour all night marathon. Last night I woke up at three (no Bryan) and at seven (no [...]

Cop out? Maybe. It’s Thanksgiving.