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.
Aren't they something. They're like butterflies, or little pieces of wrapping paper blowing around.
Kaylee ,'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.
-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
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.
Sean K - Oct 19, 2007 8:26:45 am PDT #7508 of 10001
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Another value of libraries is that they give people who cannot otherwise afford it access to the internet!
Well if those people cannot afford the internet access, then clearly they're not real Americans. They're probably welfare leeches too. And I imagine most of them are brown, or foreigners, or brown foreigners, anyway. The rest are gay.
t /suddenly bitter
Sparky1 - Oct 19, 2007 8:27:55 am PDT #7509 of 10001
Librarian Warlord
His one exception? The military!
So efficient they hired private companies like Blackwater.
Jesse - Oct 19, 2007 8:28:55 am PDT #7510 of 10001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, the last time I wanted to use a computer at the branch library I go to, it was the middle of a weekday, and it was going to be a two hour wait for a 15-minute slot -- and a longer wait for a longer slot.
And awesomely, the NYPL is open 6 days a week now (again). Which is sweet.
Kathy A - Oct 19, 2007 8:29:39 am PDT #7511 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
how we shouldn't trust the government to do anything efficiently.
Then why is it that Medicare spends about 1/3rd per patient what the average private insurance company does?
-t - Oct 19, 2007 8:29:40 am PDT #7512 of 10001
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Free wifi at the library rocks.
Eta: and my current local library has the wonderful quiet reading area in front of a working fireplace. I'm gonna come back and visit in on grey days even after I move, I think.
tommyrot - Oct 19, 2007 8:29:55 am PDT #7513 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.
So efficient they hired private companies like Blackwater.
Who are even more efficient as they operate with no oversight whatsoever. Plus they can cut costs by sending out their employees into hostile areas without all that fancy "protection" that real soldiers have to have.