This year I'm going to observe Lent with my stout Catholic friend Mike. I've pledged to give up "fat jokes" for the next 40 days (although Mike said that Catholics get Sundays off, so we'll see what happens then). I'm also going to give up meat and only eat one meal on Fridays. Lent overlaps Passover, so there will be one Friday with no meat and no bread. If the people of Darfur can make a livelihood out of it, I think I can manage for a day. I'm going to attend mass as well. I really want to end with a fat joke of some kind; this whole thing is gonna be hard.
Happy Ash Wednesday to all non-anti-Semitic observers.
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