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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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