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* notbob <notbob@nothome.com>
| [...] If the variable dired-recursive-deletes is non-nil, then Dired
| can delete nonempty directories including all their contents. That can
| be somewhat risky."
>
| So, how do I set the above named variable or, better yet, how do I
| invoke it w/o changing my emacs config file?

M-x customize-variable RET dired-recursive-deletes RET

But make sure you really really really want to delete non-empty
directories (especially $HOME :-) without confirmation.

HTH
R'