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Saturday October 2, 2004
I'm up and running here at SHUSH headquarters,
otherwise known as HOME. Here's hoping this is a good thing!
Watched the debate Thursday night. It was intense
in some ways, boring in others. It felt like Bush sometimes just wanted to smack
the big dope standing there. Considering some of Kerry's answers I can't blame him.
Kerry spent half the debate saying Iraq was a distraction
and the other half saying Saddam was a legitimate threat. There's nothing nuanced
about that, one of those statements is an outright lie. When Kerry talks about handling
Iraq the right way he's basically talking about the first Gulf War (something he
voted against). However in that war we still supplied over a half a million troops and
made up the majority of the armed forces there (that and certain
countries' cooperation depended on *not* ousting Saddam from power). If Saddam was a legitimate threat the
commitment would have been the same either way. If he was a distraction... well, was
he or wasn't he?
Saw Howard Dean being interviewed by Tim Russert
tonight. He was saying that wedge issues shouldn't be allowed and that everybody
in reality wants the same thing, better schools, better healthcare, yadda yadda
yadda. Of course if I were to point out that not everybody agrees on what makes
a better school or better healthcare I'd be creating a wedge issue. Fooey.
Thursday September 30, 2004
I haven't forgotten, I did send a follow-up email
in August and I sent another yesterday. If I don't get a response by next week you'll
hear some serious squawking.
Big debate tonight in case you haven't heard, should
be interesting.
Night
Interesting article over at FOCL. Even more interesting
is the response from Eliades Acosta, Director of Jose Martí National Library in Cuba.
Somebody's off their meds.
Librarians
that is and traffic has been up for SHUSH in part because of it.
Jack
dissects a bit of embellishment by American
Libraries.
Tomes takes ALA to
task
for tactless and twisted
politicking.
From the Rather School of Journalism, Rory Litwin
jumps to the conclusion
[8 items down] that I post as 'piglet' at Little Green Footballs, simply
because 'piglet' happens to
support SHUSH.
Having been an internet surfer for over 10 years I've
had a number of online personalities. I promise that piglet has never been one of
them. Plus I'm sure piglet does not appreciate the assumption either, SHUSH supporter
or not.
Let me offer a hearty "Welcome!" to everyone from the
convention whom I met, handed fliers to, or were just one of the few dozen
people who looked at me like I had two heads but managed to see the web address on my
purple backpack and decided to check it out.
I got back Tuesday night. I would have posted yesterday
but everything that could go wrong at work did so here I am today. I will be posting
a full report starting Monday, some very interesting stuff, I hope you'll enjoy it.
Sunday September 26, 2004
I was just in taking care of some odds and ends
before the conference and I was too impressed with a post by Jessamyn to let it pass
by. Credit where credit is due, she takes an honest approach to one of the so-called
'most challenged' books called Arming America. The book is fiction and doesn't belong
on the shelves unless your sticking a big fat sticker on the cover to explain it as
such. No doubt a lot of the biographies on our shelves are open to interpretation but
the sources for this book are as reliable as the CBS forgeries.
The most interesting part of Jessamyn's post is this:
She's walking a fine edge there because if books
really change lives shouldn't we just be a little bit more responsible about what
kids have access to? Keep mulling Jess, we'll make a conservative out of you yet.
Off to the conference...
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