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Dear March,

Listen, I get that you, like all aging singles on OkCupid, have commitment issues. But I’m gonna need you to get some help. Go to therapy like the rest of us. Dig into your childhood issues. Journal. Join July as it works through his insistence on being a wet blanket and hotter than balls simultaneously.

Do whatever it takes.

Last week it was seventy-four degrees. I wore Crocs. So pleasant. A couple days ago it snowed. WTF, March. And this was not the good kind of snow that flirty February offers, but sleet and hail and rain and fog too. There was an icon on my weather app that I had never seen before. That’s how off the rails you are, March. Tim Cook is having to invent new graphics to predict what mayhem you’ll be bringing us next.

Polish people don’t eat white bread. That’s for Americans. We only eat rye—Polish rye. But not this week. This week there was a Polish problem. The deli ran out of the rye that Mom and I usually get. When we walked in and heard the news, Mom reacted as if she’d just witnessed a double homicide.

“Oh my god. No!”

We would have to try a new brand of bread, and the only thing on the shelf was Turano Rustic Rye.

“Turano?” Mom said, getting heated. “Is that Italian for ‘rip-off’?” She scrutinized the package. “And rustic? What do they know about rustic? You don’t know rustic until you’ve crapped in an outhouse for the first ten years of your life.”

Mom had a difficult childhood.

I told her we needed to be open-minded about the bread. But it was too much to ask.

“The deli is scamming us, mark my words.” Mom poked the loaf. “These slices look small.”

Mom held the package up to her face and declared that the loaf looked small, didn’t it? I shrugged. It looked appropriately loaf sized to me. Maybe her head was big.

Thomas Perrett looks at the Whitehall changes over environmental policy, and sees a lot of deckchairs being re-arranged which fail to address the climate emergency

When Dr Ella Cockbain complained to the broadcast regulator that the GBNews channel encourages violent hatred, she was subjected to it on social media. Brian Cathcart reports

Transport is at the heart of our environmental crises. In the UK, traffic is responsible for about 25 percent of air pollution. As the climate crisis intensifies, transport (excluding aviation and shipping) contributes to 23 percent of the country’s emissions. In this context, initiatives promoting alternative modes of travel are on the rise: low-traffic neighbourhoods […]

Martin Wolf's musings about what lies in store for Europe has a huge blind spot as far as the US is concerned.

Brad Blitz looks at the storm of controversy over Gary Lineker's comments on the Illegal Migration Bill, and while he finds no evidence of Nazi policy, does hear echoes of fascist rhetoric

There is much that the global feminist movement can learn from the current women’s struggle in Iran and their vision.

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John Thune embodies the rail industry’s Washington influence machine that could now kill bipartisan safety legislation.

Prominent right-wingers at the BBC have long been given the sort of leeway for their views that those on the left never will, writes Adam Bienkov

Watch as a computer code visualises, in real time, the ratios embedded in a virtuoso musician’s improvisations on the piano

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The very attributes that make small dogs cute and popular are slowly strangling their ability to function as real animals

- by Jessica Pierce

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Low- to moderate-income communities continued to feel the effects of the pandemic in 2022. Though facing their own struggles, nonprofits helped them recover.

Social scientists pursue a variety of different purposes such as predicting events of interest, explaining individual events or general phenomena, and controlling outcomes for policy. It is interesting to note that the language of“cause” is employed in all these contexts … What kind of causal hypothesis should be investigated (and, in tandem, what kind of […]

How John Galbraith correctly called many developments that have had great political and economic significance, like the decline of unions

Jelle Barkema How concerned should policymakers be as UK business insolvencies have soared to 60-year highs? This phenomenon has been extensively covered in the media; with media outlets attributing the record-breaking numbers to a ‘perfect storm’ of energy prices, supply-chain disruptions and the cost of living squeeze. Insolvencies are a popular measure of economic distress … Continue reading Corporate insolvencies reaching record highs: a look under the hood →

Silvergate: In 16 months from $239 at peak crypto consensual hallucination to $2.76, including the 44% plunge afterhours.

HAIR salon owner Michelle Clarke, partnered with Phil Myers from Pacific Dance Centre, and coached by teacher Carol Myers, is having a ball learning her dance for Stars of Coffs Coast, the Cancer Council’s major fundraiser in Coffs Harbour. “Carol and Phil are fun to be with and very patient with this uncoordinated stick on...

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Fun times at "the pee place."

DeSantis eyes a presidential run.

JAGUN Aged and Community Care in Moonee Beach has received $95,000 through the NSW Government’s Community and Place funding program. The Jagun Yilldaan (Homeland Sacred Pathway) project includes the construction of an 80 sqm shed to enable undercover events, group sessions, training sessions, meetings and cultural services for the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander community....

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THE F U Cancer weekend is a two-day event of fitness, fun, charity and community on Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 March, organised by Em Pitomaki, manager at F45 Training Coffs Harbour. Em is a contestant in the Cancer Council’s Stars of Coffs Coast event, and is partnered for the dancing fundraiser with Jade Naidu...

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MOVING with the times, the Dorrigo Country Women’s Association (CWA) Hall is one of five premises being upgraded into a co-working space providing affordable, equipped and shared community spaces for women in regional and rural parts of the state, through a NSW Government grant of 400,000 to the CWA of NSW. “Dorrigo CWA branch has...

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MEMBERS of the Community Use Permaculture Space (CUPS), located on Brian Navin Park at Park Beach Plaza shopping centre in Coffs, are having a planning meeting on Saturday 1 April to share initial garden designs and hear community suggestions. The group is asking for interested people to come along, share their thoughts and hear what’s...

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