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Unfortunately, then you need to buy a book written by a sexual predator.

I worked there twenty years ago, so things may have changed. But back then, you had to take a civil service exam.

They’d do them 3 or 4 times a year, usually on a Saturday at the nearest big city. On the exam, you demonstrate your ability to read house numbers, understand traffic laws, and in general not be a complete idiot. Then you pick your top three post offices you’d want to work out of.

When one of those offices has an opening (which can take months), they interview candidates starting with the highest-scoring people who took the exam and working their way down until the local manager finds a good fit.

New York State gave them a contract to be in every rest stop on our main highway. I was opposed on moral grounds initially, but when I found out about the Sunday thing, I was flabbergasted at how boneheaded a move it was. Literally travelers can’t get food on the highway one day per week.

Nothing inherently wrong with taxation. The problems are how taxes are determined, how they’re collected, and how that money is distributed.

D.D. Palmer “received chiropractic from the other world” from a deceased physician named Dr. Jim Atkinson.

You can be cis-het and wear a sundress if you want to. Once you buy one, it stops being “women’s clothes” and becomes your clothes.

…his wife is in a coma.

Reminds me of a guy I used to work with. Any time he got frustrated with our manager, he’d mutter to himself, “Everyone gets one.”

The way he explained it to me is, everyone is allowed to murder one person. You might suffer some real bad consequences as a result, but if you can stomach those consequences, no one can really stop you from doing just one murder.

OP didn’t back up their assertion with data. They don’t see kids; I do see kids. It’s all anecdotal.

Quick searching shows a CDC survey from 2017 estimating that a little over 15% of American kids walk to school. More recent data would require more time to find than I have right now, but even if it’s as low as 1 in 10 now, that’s still not nothing.

Kids don’t walk to school anymore

What am I passing when I drive home every afternoon? Geese?

Felt like less racism

To you. I promise you, racism has always been a huge problem.

Anything in the WAMC listening area is New England. I’ll accept no other opinions.

When I was in high school, the girls running team had shirts that said, “Fast girls have good times!”

Neither of them should’ve been punished? He was her boss, and decades older than her. He should’ve kept his pants zipped up.