Thank you. I appreciate that. And yeah, it’s a mess.

Please consider calling what are possibly undocumented people something other than “illegals.”
“Illegals” is an ugly and purposefully dismissive shorthand that is designed to diminish.

I had an bookstore for 22 years. It died when Amazon took off in 1998. We did ok when the chains like B&N came along but couldn’t compete A’s with overnight delivery. My customers simply evaporated over the course of about six months. Yes, do support the Indies.

C’mon! You’re mistaken. Microwaves weren’t commercially available until the late 60s & even then were so brutally expensive that very few people in the UK could afford them.

Where is Jared now? Burning question

Don’t understand. What are your values?

Aah, but it has one of the best first sentences in modern literature.