I Don't Want to Be Normal.  I Want to Be Healthy. #3 Dan Goodman, 1720 Como Ave SE, Minneapolis, MN 55414.  dsgood at iphouse.com or at gmail.com.  612-298-2354

Sunday October 13, 2013 "A Few Geniuses More" (working title, sf short) is now going well.

***Comments to me:

October 9 Lee Gold. "A recent article I noticed on Salon or on GoogleNews disclosed that federal rules allow unpaid interns to continue working for free, with the result that interns are now doing a lot of work during the shutdown."
http://www.salon.com/2013/10/08/government_quietly_being_staffed_during_shutdown_by_unpaid_interns/

"You might be interested in the various rumors recently debunked by Snopes in which the Federal Government cloaks Mount Rushmore, shuts down the Amber Alert system, and threatens to arrest Catholic chaplains in the military if they hold Mass."

I wonder why specifically Catholic chaplains?

August 23 Lee Gold <lee.gold@ca.rr.com>
"On 8/23/2013 4:09 PM, Daniel S. Goodman wrote: 'I sometimes wonder how a teleportation network would affect where people live.  If they could commute from places with extremely low housing prices to jobs anywhere, how many would do it?'

"Places with extremely low housing prices may have higher rates for heating & air conditioning
(or will you cheaply teleport hot/cold air to them?).  They may also have more annoying noise levels and smells and other problems."

These are among the things which people who now make such moves run into.  Plus weather they're not used to, high food prices, unaccustomed poisonous plants, less choice of utility providers ....

August 20 Fred Lerner. "Deer certainly are kosher, if slaughtered properly. A bit of googling should take you to sources for kosher venison. We used to get kosher bison from a butcher in New Haven, but they haven't had any lately. (I'd hate to be the guy who has to get up close and schecht the critter!)"

Thanks for the correction.

August 22 Lee Gold. "> Friday August 16, 2013 The New York Times has a culinary report from Montana, where meat slaughtered in a most unkosher manner is more legal than it had been.
> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/16/us/roadkill-gains-traction-as-a-home-menu-item.html?hpw
>
> Deliberately running down deer for eating has not been legalized.  And human roadkill doesn't seem to be discussed.

"How do they tell whether a deer was accidentally hit or deliberately run down?
Or illegally shot (out of season, maybe) and then disguised as an accident victim?"

"> From politicalwire.com:
> Iranian politician Nina Siakhali Moradi had her city council election overturned by religious conservatives, who barred her from office for being too pretty, Iran Wire reports.
> http://iranwire.com/en/projects/1961

"Did the article say she was too pretty?
Or just that she was a young woman behaving improperly?"

It said she was too attractive.

""> [Note:  Deer, pegasi, and most insects are not kosher.]

"Deer split the hoof and chew cud, and therefore are kosher -- if they are properly slaughtered.
http://www.jewfaq.org/kashrut.htm  -- 'Cattle, sheep, goats, deer and bison are kosher.'

"Pegasi would probably get classed as a variant of horse -- which doesn't split the hoof OR chew cud.  But if you could persuade your rabbis to class pegasi as flying animals, then they might get by on the grounds that they're not any of the forbidden species.  In practice, though, kosher rules only accept birds for which there's a tradition of Jews eating them.  The turkey squeaked through on its resemblance to chickens, as I understand it.  A "pegasus" built on a deerlike or goatlike body might qualify, and this means that deerlike depictions of unicorns would qualify and horselike ones wouldn't."

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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