I know I'm a bad poet, but I'm a good man. All I ask is that... is that you try to see me—
William ,'Conversations with Dead People'
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.
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.
-t - Oct 19, 2007 8:25:46 am PDT #7504 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
That's so sad, Allyson. Our libraries seem to constantly be in peril of losing funding and being closed, but so far the voters have stepped up and at least okayed bond measures to keep them going.
Dana - Oct 19, 2007 8:25:49 am PDT #7505 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Another value of libraries is that they give people who cannot otherwise afford it access to the internet! Adults and kids.
The two or three branch libraries I go to on an irregular basis are always packed full of people waiting for computer access.
Allyson - Oct 19, 2007 8:26:05 am PDT #7506 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
megan walker - Oct 19, 2007 8:26:14 am PDT #7507 of 10001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
People are hypocrites. Hypocrites who complain about not having enough firetrucks, enough teachers, or patches for their potholes, but won't pass a tax override anyway.
Yeah, I love my get-out-of-debt radio guru, but he goes on the occasional conservative rant. This time it was national health care and how we shouldn't trust the government to do anything efficiently. His one exception? The military! Yeah, if the war in Iraq has taught us anything, it's how efficient our government is.