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“Wholesomeness?” That sounds like a euphemism for something she doesn’t want to say. I don’t know what.

She may have a point about the conservatism. Each generation has a different starting point, and if conservatism is staying close to or getting back to the starting point (or what’s good or best in the starting point), one generation’s conservatism won’t look much like the previous generation’s Gen Z’s version of back to basics or traditions won’t look much like a Boomer’s or Xer’s to say nothing of earlier generations’.

We have a mixed system — some political appointees are in charge, civil service employees are below them. Most countries do.

It would be difficult to return to a pure version of the “spoils system.” That’s not going to happen. There’s always going to be a need for specialists, or at least people who understand the existing procedures.

Was it really the case that presidents appointed the best people or had an incentive to do so? Too often they appointed cronies or party men. When we talk about “market forces” in presidential decisions and appointments, understand that the party machine is more of an influence than the voter-consumer-taxpayer-citizen.

AM doesn’t air much programing for rural gay, trans and multicultural children, so you can understand Chuckie’s concern.

Try as he might, Harrison Ford can’t use it to go back in time.

Donald, that’s your people you are talking about.

If you want to explain why you really can’t release the information, we’d believe you — but that would mean that you were releasing the relevant information — so until then, nobody’s going to believe you.

Some may want to forget and move on, but that doesn’t mean they believe you, and failure of trust is a bad thing.

The Boston NPR stations have repeaters like that on Cape Cod, Nantucket (for the summer crowd), and even in Rhode Island.

Boston University students were always angry because the university president turned their FM station over to NPR and “All Things Considered.” I’d suppose that the people at Boston’s own public broadcasting outfit WGBH (NPR, PBS) weren’t too happy about the competition either. I don’t mind so much when I can pick up the NPR jazz station in Worcester, though. That’s not often.

What does Sessions have to do with it?

He was out of government when Epstein was arrested.

He made the mistake of thinking he could get away with it.

A dumb stunt. This wasn’t meant to pass and may have been intended to sink the bill it was attached to.

Homer didn’t write the Odyssey, but somebody else named Homer did. Same thing here. Muhammed didn’t write the Koran, but somebody else, possibly also named Muhammed, did. Somebody wrote it, and I don’t think it was Allah.

True, but he has a book to sell and was very smug about describing his brother-in-law. No recognition that his b-i-l may have been right about some things.

We know nothing about this guy. We don’t know how he earns a living or how he lives or even if he actually saw a mountain lion, so I didn’t address any of that. One thing we can say is that he could become a popular internet meme like Antoine from Atlanta, so I pointed that out as a kind of joke, and get your pompous, pedantic, preening and patronizing response.

“What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?”

In your case, I’d say none, since it hasn’t stopped you from being as smug a__h___.

So get grandma in Cuomo’s face until he bows out.

Mamdani’s going to win if he doesn’t.

Why post this? Nobody knows who she is and nobody cares. So is it all just to insult some dead person who is of no real interest to any of us? Breitbart and other sites feed enough stuff into the pipeline just to provoke attacks. Why do you feel the need to add to that?

In large part they are the descendants of those Jews and Christians (and pagans). There weren’t enough people in Arabia to repopulate the conquered lands.

When did patronizing insults become the chief stock in trade here? So much for your reason and faith.

It’s safe to say that that is exactly what is NOT happening ...

Well, it’s as safe to say as anything Epstein-related is ...

Thanks. It sounded a little strange.

Pardon me, do you have any salmon or white sturgeon roe?