Godzilla, Warrior Princess 8/14/13  Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414.  dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com. 

Wednesday August 14, 2013  To Waite House for NAPS (Nutritional Assistance Program for Seniors) food.

And the twice-monthly produce giveaway.  This time, they had a lot of zucchini.  Much, much, much zucchini.

***Sent Ed Meskys two sets of information, related to questions raised in THE VIEW FROM ENTROPY HALL #49. 

1) A story John Boardman had been searching for (about what would have happened if Joseph hadn't become a slave in Egypt):  "Hands Off" by Edward Everett Hale.  I'd forgotten author and title, but uchronia.net (devoted to alternate history) has a chronological listing of old stuff.

2) Information on polygamy (polygyny, to be precise) in Jewish law.  Quick and dirty summary:  Banned for Ashkenazim unless certain very strict conditions are fulfilled.  Not exactly banned for other Jews, but extremely rare except where civil law permits it.
 
***New York Times article on falling population in Germany (with mention of similar problems elsewhere in Europe -- though not everywhere.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/14/world/europe/germany-fights-population-drop.html?hp&_r=1&pagewanted=all&

***From Twitter:

Matt Novak ‏@paleofuture
1980s College Dean: Universities Will Collapse Because of Liberals http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/1980s-college-dean-universities-will-collapse-because-1139210184

ACES ‏@copyeditors
Another save by a copy editor. RT @TheSlot "How to protect your garden from rabbis." Yeah, glad I caught that typo.
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