Hi there, library lovers. I feel bad that I haven’t had much to say lately, but unfortunately there isn’t much nice to say. Libraries are still having our budgets gutted, and some of us are getting a little tired of the battle. Libraries (unfortunately) can’t exist simply as caves in which librarians can live out [...]
Continue reading...Posted by Carrie Stanziola on Sun, Jul 11, 2010
I first read The Diary of Anne Frank in eighth grade. I suspect that’s the average age people read it in school, but I read it on my own. I’m not saying this to brag. I was simply a voracious reader who went to a truly awful junior high. During seventh and eighth grade, the [...]
Continue reading...Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Wed, May 12, 2010
This made my day yesterday. It’s a new comic book that I’m totally buying right… now. The “Henry Rollins hearts Glenn Danzig” meme predates the internet — I remember giggling over the idea of R&D shacking up back in the early ’90s. But it’s even more timely in the light of California’s high-profile gay marriage debates. [...]
Continue reading...Posted by Norton on Tue, Mar 16, 2010
Anyone who was a child in the ’80s certainly remembers the fleet of shitty animated cartoons in the afternoons and Saturday mornings. This was around the time when the industry was deregulated and transformed (pun intended!) into a platform for advertising, targeting America’s youth as the great new frontier market. During the Reagan administration, legislation [...]
Continue reading...Posted by Casey Rae-Hunter on Sun, Feb 14, 2010
Here’s a pictoral follow-up to yesterday’s analysis of the SCOTUS campaign finance decision. From BigFatWhale:
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Posted by Wes on Wed, Sep 1, 2010
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