At the Weedsburg Café...

At the Weedsburg Café... ... you write about whatever you want (not that you can buy everything you might want).

"An odd coalition of advocates for the needy, local retailers and big corporations..."

"... is opposing a fast-moving bill limiting junk food for food stamp recipients." The proposal's lead sponsor, former potato ...

"I heard screaming, I'm eating my McDonalds, I come outside and I see this girl going nuts trying to get out of the house..."

"... and I go on the porch and she says 'Help me get out! I've been in here a long time' .... She comes out with a little g...

"The four most influential athletes in America really don’t play."

"At least not lately."

"For black men like us, the feeling of having something to lose, beyond honor and face, is foreign."

"We grew up in communities — New York, Baltimore, Chicago — where the Code of the Streets was the first code we learned. Respect and re...

"A bipartisan coalition in the Senate easily passed legislation Monday to force Internet retailers to collect sales taxes..."

"... for state and local governments, sending the issue to the House, where antitax forces have vowed to kill it." But the 69-to-2...

"He wandered from room to room with his head in his hands wondering what had hit him."

An 80-pound tree branch had hit him in the forehead. He had recently emerged from a month-long coma. He felt nauseated and slept most of th...