Tuesday August 6, 2013  National Night Out.  I didn't attend any of the local gatherings -- which, considering the evening's weather (episodes of hail and rain), was just as well.

But there will be a "PPL National Night Out" gathering on the 16th at Van Cleve Park.  (The National Night Out movement has had a schism.)

***T-shirt: "Ce n'est pas un t-shirt."

***Seen at the Minneapolis Central Library, a Christian sf novel which I disrecommend: The Tuloriad, (Oct 2009, John Ringo, Tom Kratman, publ. Baen, 1-4391-3304-2, $26.00, 385pp, hc)

Main reason for disrecommendation:  Tom Kratman doesn't demonstrate as much Christian charity as th average Satanist.

***Shopped at St. Vincent De Paul thrift store and the Wedge Coop.  Paid for next thirty days of no-contract phone service.

At Southeast Library, picked up a collection of George Orwell's essays.

From politicalwire.com:
Bonus Quote of the Day
"What are you going to do about it, grandpa?"

-- Anthony Weiner, quoted by the New York Post, to a 69-year-old man who objected to Weiner touching him at an AARP mayoral forum.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/lf27bjt

From Twitter:
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Mondays have been designated "Hangman's" day in South Carolina. "We should worry." MN1913