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Greetings.

Jewish date:  13 ’Av 5769.

Today’s holiday:  Monday of the Eighteenth Week of Ordinary Time.

Today’s quasi-holiday:  National Watermelon Day.

Worthy causes of the day:  “Sign the letter to tell senators: health care can't wait!” and “Health Reform Legislation Fails to Include Children: Urgent Action!”

Relevant to Divine Misconceptions:  “The Corruption Charges against the NJ Rabbis”:  Jumping to conclusions about what the cause of a problem is unjustified.  This is doubly unjustified when the conclusion is a cliché.

Today’s news and commentary:

• “Blind can take wheel with vehicle designed by university engineering design team”:  I am not making this up!
  
• “Skeptic's Take on the Life and Argued Works of Shakespeare”
  
• “There is no WiFi allergy: newspapers misreport PR as science”
  
• “Solar Customers Fuming Over Proposed Fee”:  If one is going to lie, one should at least not lie transparently.  No one respects doing something wrong badly.
  
• “Fungus Makes Zombie Ants Do All the Work”
  
• “Interorbital Systems – TubeSat Personal Satellite Kit”
  

Today’s weird thing is Pig Latin, the famous coded version of English.  Pig Latin is popular enough that Google Search has been localized for it, and there are a number of Pig Latin translators on the Internet:  “Pig Latin -- An English to Pig Latin Translator”, “Pig Latin to English Translator”, and “Wordplays.com/Pig Latin - Wordplays.com”.  Enjoy and share the weirdness.

Aaron