In 1950, the median house cost about 2.5 years of a single income.
In 2026, it costs about 5 years of two incomes.
We’ve had fifty years of polite euphemisms for what those numbers mean.
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I was wrong…
Ran out of wet cat food tonight and now Lil Barn Cat is threatening to pack her little kitty rucksack and leave the farm. #caturday
Had a normal cup of coffee and experienced the deeply suspicious feeling of things maybe being okay
I love when goats are like “oh, we didn’t realize the fence was supposed to hold us”
Never trust Pablo Barn Cat when he shows his belly.
The last of the snow…I think.
What the hell are we even watching right now?
For this world to stop hating?
Still expecting
The cops will still probably kick down your door and then you’ll hear the glass break…
It’s such an underrated movie. The Chekhov subplot is such a good example of late stage Cold War cinema.
At this point, I can’t hear any story about a ghost tour and not think about this sketch…
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From this week’s comic…
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Those are incredible
This week’s substack…abridged.
This is an objectively funny recruiting strategy. #burlingtonvt #burlington #vermont
Rooster: I will crow at dawn as God intended.
[crows at 2:47 AM]
Rooster: That was a spiritual dawn. You wouldn’t understand. I answer to a different clock.
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A chainsaw is the only tool that makes you feel simultaneously powerful and like you could ruin everything in less than a second. There is no casual chainsaw use. Every cut is a commitment.
Q: What do geese want?
A: Violence. Grass. More violence. To be left alone. To never be left alone. To scream at a thing and then scream at the absence of the thing. I have studied them for eight years and I know less now than when I started.
The Northeast Kingdom is what happens when beauty and inconvenience reach a permanent truce and agree to coexist forever without resolving anything.
Nobody has ever studied the social hierarchy of a feed store parking lot but I’m telling you it exists. The trucks are arranged by something. I don’t know the rules but I know I parked in the wrong spot once and a man looked at me like I’d insulted his bloodline.
I remember when $5 at Tractor Supply got you a 5-gallon bucket. Now, $5 gets you a of bucket that could serve as a shot glass for a very depressed garden gnome. Shrinkflation is a literal demon. @tractorsupply
Before the Act 181 rally I sat on the Statehouse steps with a dairy farmer, a builder, and a logger. We talked for an hour. Didn’t agree on everything. Agreed on more than I expected. Might just release the whole thing. Would you watch/listen to that?
Went to the Act 181 rally yesterday. Stood with a few hundred people on cold steps in Montpelier. Didn’t agree with everything I heard but I’m glad I went. You learn more about a law by watching who shows up scared of it.
The friggin discourse grist mill must discourse…
