I'd seen your bracketed insertion of Waltz's party affiliation before I'd posted, and should have mentioned that you'd put it in. Or I shouldn't have posted at all... My larger point that I had been trying to make was that the article for which you provided the link didn't list Waltz's party affiliation. That had initially made me suspect biased reporting, and I wrote an unresearched response. But on looking today at the Website where the article was posted, Indy Politics, I see now that the author, Abdul Hakim-Shabazz, who appears to write most all the articles for the Web site, is not right-leaning, and the article was likely written with the assumption that the Website's Indiana-based readers would know the party affiliation of their former senator.

Thanks for all the articles you post with news from all over the US & territories!

I see a commercial with two parents and two kids. Bishop sees the same commercial. In the commercial, the parents take the kids to soccer practice and band practice.

I don't have kids who go to soccer or band practice, and Bishop probably doesn't, either. I don't feel guilty. Bishop doesn't think that the commercial is telling him that he needs to feel guilty because of that.

In the commercial, the parents drive a mini-van.

I don't drive a mini-van, and Bishop probably doesn't either. I don't feel guilty. Bishop doesn't think that the commercial is telling him that he needs to feel guilty because of that.

In the commercial, the parents cook burgers on a back yard gas grill.

I don't cook burgers on a back yard gas grill, and Bishop may or may not, but I don't feel guilty, and Bishop doesn't think that the commercial is telling him that he needs to feel guilty because of that.

In the commercial, the father takes a pill for ED.

I don't need to take a pill for ED, and perhaps Bishop doesn't need to, and I don't feel guilty, and Bishop doesn't think that the commercial is telling him that he needs to feel guilty because of that.

In the commercial, the father is black and the mother is white.

I'm white, and Bishop is too. I don't feel guilty. But Randy thinks the commercial is telling him that he needs to feel guilty because the father is black. Randy has a severe problem.

Try out other letters to rule possibilities in or out.

I just figured out how to post these grids.

Wordle 295 4/6

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WordHurdle 163 5/6 #wordhurdle #peace

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See
https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1018&pid=1645105

My partner tells me that there is a "hard" mode of Wordle, though, in which you have to keep using the letters that get colored green and orange, rather than test out other words to rule more letters in or out at once, as I was explaining how to do in my post last week. Maybe you're playing the hard mode...

Good luck!

I've never seen a prep time that came close to how long it takes me. Usually at least one and a half to two times as long.

I don't think, though, that prep time is meant to include baking time. It's supposed to be the time to mix ingredients and get the pan into the oven.

Prep time doesn't include realizing your sugar jar is almost empty so you need to empty another bag of sugar into it, or rummaging through your spice cupboard and the overflow spice cupboard for the strange spice you haven't used in a recipe in four years, or replacing a fuse after running your hand mixer and microwave at the same time blows it out.

Doesn’t mean you can only try words that have those letters in those locations. If h b f and r are candidates, think of words that use 2 or 3 of those letters so as to rule the letters in or out. (Or, if it were to exist, which it doesn’t, a word with all four of the letters.) I don’t know it it’s in the wordle dictionary of allowed words but you could try “bragh” which uses three of the letters. Or try “abhor” which also uses 3 of the 4. Maybe you find yourself in a situation where you can only find a real word that uses two of the four. So use that. You don’t have to only pick words with O as the 2nd letter, u as the 3rd letter and so on.
As an example for today’s wordle I started with a word with three vowels and two common constants. The first letter, which was a consonant, was correctly positioned and colored green. Two vowels were both orange—letters in the solution but not in the correct position. For my 2nd try I used a word with all different letters but it contained a Y and the 4h vowel. The vowel turned green and one of the consonants turned orange. So now I know all five correct letters and the correct positions for two of them. And there’s only one word to try that meets those requirements—the solution. Yes, I was a bit lucky in my guesses but the same process can be applied if the first one or two guesses aren’t so lucky. Just don’t repeat letters in your tries if you don’t have to and you can test more candidate letters in the tries you have available.