“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
― Pablo Neruda
We made it to another weekend, kittens, and here in London at least it feels like spring really has arrived. It’s warming up, the daffodils are out in full force, and I think we are officially out of excuses for not being able to make it to the gym during daylight hours. Crud.
Here are your links, mostly politics free this week, to keep this springtime good mood going. Share your favorite stories from the week in the comments!
In case you missed the thread or story in question, this piece is worth a read.
This year’s NPR Music Tiny Desk Contest winners are a revelation and a delight!
Lipstick, oppression, empowerment, and the inner female life. Sign me up for whatever it takes to get this film released.
The CBO score on the healthcare reform, put forward by some Republicans and supported (at least initially) by the administration, came out this week. The estimates are 14 million losing insurance by 2018, 24 million by 2026. Read up and inform yourselves. In other political news, the courts temporarily blocked Travel Ban 2.0, a new budget proposal was put forward that amps military spending and cuts things like poverty support, big chunks of funding to whole agencies, and arts endowments (always a sign of great things to come ), and the president’s own party are refusing to back his thus-far-baseless claims of wiretapping. #winning?
I loved this supportive letter from Albert Einstein to Marie Curie.
Dear Saudi Arabia, you messed up…
And speaking of messing up, our own military (near and dear to my brat heart) isn’t exactly covering itself in glory on women’s issues lately.
So, minions, if we all pool our money…
A fascinating profile on Kellyanne Conway. Love her or loathe her, but this article makes a compelling case that she is, for all functional purposes, almost the acting First Lady in terms of profile, administrative involvement, and propinquity.
Miss Ru got married?! Mazel Tov!
Album of the week: Sarah Vaughn, At Mister Kelly‘s
Small Dog Syndrome 