Friday December 20, 2013 Shopped at Dollar Tree and Aldi.

Food distribution at Community Emergency Service, run by Augustana Lutheran Church.  (Augustana meets in the CES building, and I believe donated it.  I suspect it was originally an Episcopalian church; the stained glass windows were donated by the Epworth League.)

The male pastor invited me to the Sunday morning.  (There's also a female pastor.)  He knows I'm an agnostic.

I don't think Martin Luther welcomed agnostics.  And I don't think he would've cared for the idea of female pastors.

***Technology investor Tim Draper tells Tech Crunch he will file a ballot initiative to split California into six separate states.

Said Draper: "It is about time California was properly represented with Senators in Washington. Now our number of Senators per person will be about average.

"Getting such a measure on California's wacky ballot will be no easy task. Attempts to get initiatives on the state ballot can cost millions of dollars, and often fail. That said, California has a long secessionist history, and there are a number of folks who want to split the West Coast into smaller territories."

However, Rick Hasen says it can't be done through a ballot initiative.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2013/12/20/six_californias.html

Pedantic note:  California does not include the entire West Coast of the continental United States

***From Twitter:

Arjun Basu ‏@arjunbasu We feel the loss. The wasting away of that which defines life. The evidence of our finality. Has it been three seconds yet? I ask, hopefully