Their home version of Spokesman is great.

Did Star Trek ever do one?

We sure do NOT have universally mandatory civics, not anymore. I graduated in 09 and my school district didn’t teach anyone anything beyond the basics of the voting system.

Pretty much this. The average gets dragged down by a HIGH infant mortality rate - nest predators from snakes to raccoons to hawks and vultures kill a lot of hatchlings, as well as things like simple accidents (falling out of a tree, for instance).

Want to build an explosive? Here’s an equation you haven’t seen since 9th grade that determines how big an explosive you can build.

I saw several people try to go hiking like that at Red Rocks outside of Las Vegas when I was there.

It was summer. The temperature was 113F that day.

Like a lot of places in the US, it could be bastardized from local indigenous languages.

Kentucky was named the Bluegrass State because it was so invasive that when settlers came into the area, they found the whole state carpeted in it.

Nah, this is an AWCY-grade weird performance art thing.

There really aren’t any. No candidate has withdrawn or died before the election, and nobody ever really considered the possibility even as candidate ages grow older and older.

His manifesto is full of a bunch of problematic racial overtones as well.

Pathfinder has a spell called Allfood, makes literally anything into “food” (well, it’s tasteless mush, but it is edible). Creative uses include: chewing through doors, literally eating important MacGuffins, and disarming opponents via CHOMP.

Alternately, they can hold elections and still make them corrupt by holding them at the most inconvenient times for everyone except the people they want. “Our election is a voice vote, the week before Thanksgiving, at 2PM in a conference room in town 50 miles away” sorta stuff.

Room and board can be as much as another 20% depending on where you go.

G’Kar and Kira sharing war stories.

I want an entire show about Admiral Vance, because I’m in love with Oded Fehr’s voice.

“Time for It To Come Home for Christmas” sounds vaguely ominous.

Or you have a golden parachute clause so you leave with $3.6mil as everything burns around you.

“You’re welcome on my ship. God ain’t.”

TBH, O’brien’s been on the Enterprise long enough to know that when weird, seemingly powerful creatures start talking to you, you should be very, very careful. Even if they present themselves as storybook characters.