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Affordable Housing – Technically, housing that costs no more than 30 percent of your income. Practically, a rhetorical device used in PowerPoints to mean everything and nothing. -
From the Diary of a Human Jean Valjean Trapped Inside an Upcoming Les Miserables Muppet Movie
“My hunger has grown to such a peak that I fear I am too weary to keep my wits about me. Toothsome aromas have lured me to the shop of a small Swedish baker, aflergel blergel-ing from his warm golden windows.” -
I Love You More Than Anything, but I Would Rather Die Than Talk to You on the Phone
“You would not believe what just happened, and you are the ONLY person who can give me perspective on this. So insane. Hang on, let me explain it to you excruciatingly slowly in a series of seventeen texts.” -
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Childcare Options You Can Afford with the Child Tax Credit
“A parent who can exclusively work from home and their company will happily pay them to jiggle their mouse every hour, leaving plenty of time for the toddler’s requests for the parent to sing twenty-eight rounds of ‘Down by the Bay.’” -
Frat Party University Will Not Comply with the Trump Administration’s Demands
“Remove our federal funding, if you dare. Just know that you will be responsible for ending our pioneering research in human sexuality, weed hydroponics, and beer pong physics.”
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