Godzilla, Warrior Princess 8/24/13  Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414.  dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com.

Saturday August 24, 2013  If it were legally and socially possible, I would have gone outside wearing sandals and sunscreen.  91F (just below 33C) might be an unremarkable high temperatures in some places.  In Minneapolis, it's hot.  And temperatures will be going up to 97F (36.11...C).

***Gail Collins, New York Times:

Next year, if we’re in the mood, we can celebrate the 40th anniversary of the day that Kathryn Kirschbaum, then the mayor of Davenport, Iowa, was told she could not have a Bank of America card without her husband’s signature.

The great thing about Equality Day is that it works in two ways. We can mull both how far we’ve come and how far we have to go. The one thought feeds the other. The idea of having 50 women in the U.S. Senate, or 250 female C.E.O.’s in the Fortune 500 seems less far-reaching if you contemplate the fact that in the 1960s, a spokesman for NASA said "talk of an American spacewoman makes me sick to my stomach." Now, one of the two American astronauts on the International Space Station is a woman, and that is so routine that we’re not even aware of her name. (It’s Karen Nyberg.)
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/24/opinion/collins-where-credit-is-due.html?ref=opinion&_r=0
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