Yeah. Laura's actually going to move out of the town, soon.
My local library rocks the house. Story time, writing workshops, and loads of DVDs and a big ass computer center.
It receives a ton a funding....
...from Leonardo DiCaprio.
My work's illegal, but at least it's honest.
Mal ,'Shindig'
Natter 54: Right here, dammit.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Allyson - Oct 19, 2007 8:17:29 am PDT #7494 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
Gudanov - Oct 19, 2007 8:18:10 am PDT #7495 of 10001
Coding and Sleeping
Make the citizens responsible for purchasing their kid's schooling, their police protection, and their fire department protection and some people will call that Utopia.
tommyrot - Oct 19, 2007 8:18:13 am PDT #7496 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
People believe in the magical tax-cut fairies, where they can pay less tax without any bad consequences whatsoever.
Jesse - Oct 19, 2007 8:19:24 am PDT #7497 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Holy crap, Allyson. WTF, people.
wow, I had no idea that marking the text was a taught skill. We were so not allowed to mark up the (school-owned, and they were pretty much all school or library owned) books in my day.
Ditto. I never heard of such a thing!
tommyrot - Oct 19, 2007 8:19:30 am PDT #7498 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
megan walker - Oct 19, 2007 8:19:35 am PDT #7499 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
But I think libraries, especially branch libraries, are a waste of space as they exist now. They duplicate effort with school libraries and rec centers.
I also want to point out to never-goes-to-the-library person that the majority of people in the local library when I go are adults.
Scrappy - Oct 19, 2007 8:19:49 am PDT #7500 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Good going, Leo.
Daisy Jane - Oct 19, 2007 8:20:45 am PDT #7501 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I'm just gobsmacked that a member of the editorial board, a journalist, of a major metropolitan newspaper would say he has no use for libraries, nor show any indication that he understands their functions.
Allyson - Oct 19, 2007 8:22:08 am PDT #7502 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica
What makes it truly heartbreaking to me is that the library was pretty happening. It was small, but it was always loaded with kids, running through the stacks, sitting on the floor with small piles of books. I mean, it really is a lovely little building. Plus, there were huge displays of quilts by Kathleen Weinheimer who was a truly amazing artist.
Sophia Brooks - Oct 19, 2007 8:22:20 am PDT #7503 of 10001
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
>wow, I had no idea that marking the text was a taught skill. We were so not allowed to mark up the (school-owned, and they were pretty much all school or library owned) books in my day.
Me three.
Another value of libraries is that they give people who cannot otherwise afford it access to the internet! Adults and kids.