Fiona told me a friend’s mom had taken over his Instagram to let his friends know she took his technology privileges away until his grades went up. I said,”wow, that was pretty cold,” and Fiona said, “yeah, it’s like if grandma told everyone she took away your quill and parchment
🎶 It's beginning to look a lot like justice 🎶
🎶 Everywhere you go 🎶
🎶 He's looking at 5 to 10, in the federal pen 🎶
🎶 With bars & cuffs & silver chains that glow 🎶
I guess I would identify my overall professional goal as being fully helpful in meeting library patrons' needs without becoming the library worker they ask for by name.
There is a through-line to today's seemingly disparate events of Trump's gag order and Kevin McCarthy's ouster. Blind adherence of the opportunistic to the lawless.
And thank goodness the courts are holding the precarious line.
I couldn't quite bring myself to tweet out during the Garland hearing, which I thought represented a new low for the House Judiciary Committee. It wasn't simply that every Q from R's was based on a knowing lie; it was the remarkable nastiness & impoliteness. They're total punks.
Books and digital resources and computer access are great and all but the public library’s value as a free and open place for community members to be harmlessly weird is underappreciated.
New from me: "Donald Trump is not a serious person. I know that you already know that, but in a world that is still far too prone to take him seriously, it bears repeating. The man must not be taken seriously, endowed with any public stature" https://t.co/DZ0LThNcUm