Re those quarter-million food-bank patrons in Westchester County, an e-mailer runs the numbers:

Your Westchester reader sounded down on himself for causing all the hunger in his county, but he’s doing more than his part. Assuming he’s married, he’s already providing room and board to over 700 people a year in his own house (math courtesy of the Toronto Star, which boasts an annual readership of 115 million people).