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It started with the Supreme Court’s ruling in a lawsuit brought by a passel of antiabortion fanatics that aimed to roll back the Food and Drug Administration’s approvals of mifepristone dispensing by mail.

As my colleague James Rainey reported Sunday, Trump’s proposal to make overtime pay tax-exempt was part of a passel of purported tax cuts for the working class, including tax exemptions for tips and Social Security benefits, all of which economists saw as “gimmicks” and “shams.”

A herd of Irish Dexter cows, a passel of New Zealand Kunekune pigs, Babydoll Southdown sheep and assorted feathered fowl are just part of the menagerie living among fruit trees, vegetable gardens and lush native plants along a swale to capture rainwater.

In linking a family story about two middle-aged men set on reclaiming their past glory and a passel of teenagers figuring out how to attain their first taste of it, "Cobra Kai" demonstrated a four-quadrant, all-ages draw not unlike the kind that made "Stranger Things" a hit.

Molly learns a passel of thinpgs in this surrealist, carnivalesque bildungsroman.