Via TPM, here’s the latest proposal from the Republican Party in its agriculture and food safety bill: In a surprising twist, the bill language specifies that only rural areas are to benefit in the future from funding requested by the administration this year to continue a modest summer demonstration program to help children from low-income households — both urban and rural — during those months when school meals are not available. Since 2010, the program has operated from an initial appropriation of $85 million, and the goal has been to test alternative approaches to distribute aid when schools are […]

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Fascinating talk…

Jonah Hill could still be buying hooker boots at an eBay store right now. A decade ago, with that one-minute scene in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, he launched a career in bro comedies that could have kept him fed like Henry VIII on chronic for years to come. Instead, the party-hearty star of Knocked Up and Superbad went from being confused with his friend Seth Rogen to being acclaimed as the toothiest aide-de-camp in Hollywood . With a set of fake choppers and a thing for quaaludes opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in last year’s The Wolf of Wall Street, Hill made […]

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