“Why are paragraphs duplicated in the original post? Pretty damned annoying.”
Thanks for pointing that out. I missed it until now, and messed up. I think it’s only slightly annoying, but I apologize nonetheless.
What happened was I was trying to get a word count so I could post as much as I could without violating guidelines (actually, I checked the copyright list and I couldn’t find Breitbart but I was trying to respect the general guidelines FR uses for most other sources).
So I tried to copy the article and paste it into a Pages document which gives me a quick word count. That turned out to be a big hassle because of extraneous material that wasn’t in the article but showed up in the pages document after I copied and pasted.
Bottom line: I didn’t edit the excerpt properly. Again, my apologies. I promise to try to do better.
Thanks for the thoughtful reply. That seems to happen a lot around here and I never knew why.
Happy Freeping!