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I’m (expletive deleted) starving.

Celebrity chef Mario Batali • Discussing the diet he’s currently on — he’s eating like he’s on food stamps (an average of $1.48 per meal, or $31 per week) in protest of potential cuts to the federal food stamps program. His family was nice enough to join him in what he calls a conversation starter about being hungry in the U.S. Unlike most people on food stamps, he knows ways to make the best of a bad situation, smartly sticking to foods like lentils, apples, rice, beans, peanut butter and jelly. But the problem is, eating good on a diet like this is tough, so many do not. Think his family’s experiment will be effective? (via shortformblog)

I think this is the key argument for those who think that poor people could eat better if they just tried harder. This guy prepares food for a living and he still cannot manage to do this without feeling like he’s going hungry. This is a problem.

(via killsmedead)

thefluffingtonpost: Dog Steps on Crack, Mother’s Back Unaffected A local dachshund was concerned about his mom when he inadvertently stepped on a crack in the pavement during a walk. “He always thought that if you ‘step on a crack, you break your mother’s back,’ ” explains Kent Fogel, reciting the children’s playground rhyme. “He called his mom shortly after and she was fine. It was a big relief.” Via henripapa.

thefluffingtonpost:

Dog Steps on Crack, Mother’s Back Unaffected

A local dachshund was concerned about his mom when he inadvertently stepped on a crack in the pavement during a walk.

“He always thought that if you ‘step on a crack, you break your mother’s back,’ ” explains Kent Fogel, reciting the children’s playground rhyme. “He called his mom shortly after and she was fine. It was a big relief.”

Via henripapa.

When you’re president, as opposed to the head of a private equity firm, then your job is not simply to maximize profits. Your job is to figure out how everybody in the country has a fair shot… And so if your main argument for how to grow the economy is ‘I knew how to make a lot of money for investors,’ then you’re missing what this job is about.
President Obama on why Mitt Romney’s record in the private sector matters (via barackobama)