As a former foster mom (of four Sudanese teenaged refugees aka “Lost Boys”), I know it’s possible to use the foster parent stipend to help pay your mortgage or other household expenses and still do right by the kids. But it’s not easy because the stipends are usually low. Ours barely covered food and other …
Baby, You Can’t Drive My Car
On Wednesday the White House announced that it wants to spend $4B on “research and infrastructure improvements” for driverless cars. They’re promoting it as a driver (so to speak) for “innovation” and a public safety measure: “[Transportation Secretary Anthony Fox] estimated that as many as 25,000 deaths could have been avoided last year if driverless …
Bernie and FDR and Carl Sagan – oh my!
One of the best articulations of the liberal vision I’ve seen:
The Kids Are All Right
Yesterday started sadly so I thought I’d post something fun and tender to start the day today. We saw Jacques Tati’s Mon Oncle over the weekend. (Thanks Alamo Drafthouse!) Tati was a postwar French amalgam of Charlie Chaplin and Samuel Beckett. (Seriously, they played a short before the movie featuring David Lynch saying so.) His …
Bill the Chill
Please meet Billy, a.k.a., Chucklehead, Coconut Head, Silly Billy, Billy Bananas, Young Fur (Call the Midwife reference!), and The Dog With Too Many Nicknames. He’s a pom mix–basically, the world’s biggest pom. (Or at least Kalamazoo’s.) We adopted him as a rescue two years ago when he was twelve. He is deaf and down to …
Five Ways to Go Invisibly Vegan in 2016
Dear Juicers, Here’s to a healthier, kinder, and more environmentally sustainable 2016! Okay, let’s not talk about bacon or cheese. Let’s talk about chili, stir fries, and muffins. Below are five ridiculously easy things you can do to invisibly veganize your cuisine. By invisible I mean that, in a blind taste test, you wouldn’t know …
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