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1. about 3 hours ago on Joel Pett

   Software fart. Or a tricksie clicksie. Anyway, I apologize for taking the comment the wrong way. I am too touchy when I see a jab — or what, in this instance I take as a jab — at public radio or TV.

   NPR news programs (ATC, ME) feature serious interviews with conservative pols and spokespersons when the topic is a current, important, and usually divisive issue, such as immigration, finances, education, LBGQ, health care and so on. I wonder how often decidedly right wing organs of record (e.g., the NYP, Fox, the WSJ, and The Washington Examiner) interview liberal pols and spokespersons about those same issues in the brief and rare intervals between commercials and screaming bloody murder about lefties and communists and Democrats.

2. about 4 hours ago on Matt Davies

   You brought back to my mind a wag’s response when the Latin teacher asked him to pick an English verb, translate it to Latin, and then decline it. Without hesitation, the wag responded, “To spit: Spito, Spitere, Spiti, Hoctuli splatus.”

3. about 4 hours ago on Bill Bramhall

   Conversation is generally easier to carry on — and more informal — than writing. So one can expect, and may tolerate, a looseness of form not so easily shrugged off in one’s writing; especially if one’s viewpoint is to be taken seriously.

4. about 7 hours ago on Joel Pett

   This comment comes from someone who either doesn’t hear NPR news programming or doesn’t listen to what’s being said. SOME other NPR and CPB programs ARE decidedly liberal leaning, but they are editorial or entertainment oriented, they are not news programming. So it’s possible that the commenter conflates the two formats. Therefore one can understand, and then forgive his or her blunder.

5. about 7 hours ago on Henry Payne

   Probably the only fact that Payne has riffed on in 10 years.

   On a more general note, one should recognize that college costs have outpaced inflation considerably. My own college cost less than $1000/semester, full time, dorm student, meals provided way back in the 60’s when I matriculated. The tuition now is over $50K/year and 90% of the student body receives some degree of financial assistance. Of course, the cuisine is much better now than it was back then.

6. about 7 hours ago on Henry Payne

   A parallel (one which has the advantage over this one of being true) is the many MAGA billfolds belching bookoo hard won bucks into Trump’s PAC and personal coffers — a large portion go to pay for his toys and legal bills.

7. about 7 hours ago on Jack Ohman

   Well, nobody’s perfect.

   Years ago I had a friend who, at the time, was an OG/GYN nurse. She related the case wherein a newly delivered baby had a minor birth defect, an anal fistula. One of her colleagues in the DR remarked, “Well, this one will never be a doctor.” Why is that?" my friend inquired. “Because he’s not a perfect ###hole.”

8. about 7 hours ago on Joe Heller

   April in Indy racked up twice the average rainfall, about 8 inches total. Right now it’s as lush as a jungle and the grass can stand mowing at least once a week. Except for my neighbor who mows his small lawn (about 2000 sq. ft.) every other day and then runs his ########### leaf blower for about 45 minutes to blow every molecule of the grass clippings all the way to Zanzibar — or somewhere else even farther away.

9. about 7 hours ago on Matt Davies

   Recent English lingo verdict: It’s OK for one infinitives to split. (It’s still forbidden in Latin, however, wherein verbs properly at the end of sentences go.)

10. about 7 hours ago on Bill Bramhall

    A worm. A tumor. Mercury poisoning#. Yez pays yer munny an’ yez takes yer pick.

    (#) As regards the possibility for mercury poisoning, RFK Jr worked sedulously for years to get polluted waterways cleaned up; he had some success, too. Now it seems that his diet ( one heavy in fish species which bio-concentrate pollutants such as mercury) has resulted in mercury titers much greater than the maximum regarded safe by EPA (CDC ?) standards. Mercury is a potent neurotoxin; cognitive and behavior aberrations are two of the consequences of poisoning.