(01:41 pm) September 11, 2001

     I'm going to a BBQ with some friends, its an annual thing that's not related to 9/11 it just happened that this was the available date. I'm sure we'll drink a toast to the fallen and another to the terrorists, may the former be with God, may the latter rot in hell.

     I have a special article up dealing with ALA and 9/11. I doubt you'll enjoy it but hopefully you'll at least have found it worth reading. Check it out.

Wednesday September 8, 2004

  (05:42 pm) Readin'

     Two nom de plumes for your reading pleasure!

     Tomeboy expands on my subject of yesterday and in a special piece on the September Project I have a guest writer Moderata Fonte.

     Enjoy!

Tuesday September 7, 2004

  (05:46 pm) The Doctor's A Quack

     Kathleen de la Pena McCook is a professor at the University of South Florida and teaches four classes in Library Science. She maintains a website titled 'A Librarian At Every Table'. She's also highly respected by ALA and received the Achievement in Library Diversity Research award. You can scope her resume here.

     You'd think her high standing and education would keep her from acting so moronic.

     McCook has a blog with the Radical Reference group. The only name on the blog is kmccook but I figure the odds are in my favor. I emailed her to verify if it was her. She emailed back to ask why, increasing the odds in my favor. At the moment her state is being deprived of many freedoms by Mother Nature (though I've heard of no lawsuits pending) so she has yet to respond to my response. Again though, I think its safe to say its her.

     I made a reference to her and the blog a week or so ago. Its all been pretty venomous and irrational and one particular post stands above them all. She posts her view that Bush exploited 9/11 by visiting a fire station the day before he gave his speech at the RNC. She links to a site called Bartcop and at the time she did link it was to this issue, with this picture:

     If this is what she chooses to be associated with that's her right. Its my right to say this person shouldn't be teaching future librarians.

  (05:24 pm) Even Better The Second Time

     Apple's iTunes store has free downloads of the primetime speeches for the DNC and RNC. I listened to Zell and Arnold this morning. Pretty awesome, but you know it says something about all those who say we're giving up freedoms. Exactly what freedoms have we lost and how many do we now have compared to when the Constitution was signed? In truth we haven't lost any.

     In fact, thanks to hard work and the freedoms we already have, we now have more freedom then ever. You could come to our library and download these speeches to a disc if you wanted to and play it at home. In what other country can you do that?

     If Nader wanted to he could have his own series of speeches and post those on the web, CSPAN would probably do it for him. In what other country is there not only a strong 2 party system but freedom for multiple parties to say and run who they please? Most of the countries we've been debating over lately have been parties of one. Remember that.