What a fucking idiot. He never thought his allegiance to the Grand Old Leopards Eating People's Faces Party would fail to protect him. It was perfectly all right with him and his goddamned "conservative values" that King Donald the Mad was a fountain of racism until that racism was turned against him and his. This shithead sickens me, as do the Log Cabin nitwits and the Hispanics for Trump and the female collaborators and the black numpties like Larry Elder and Candace Owens. Morons who can look on unmoved at injustice and persecution right up untill they personally feel the lash.
George Chapman's comedies. Using quarto scans from the Boston Public Library's Barton collection (thanks, #InternetArchive). Just for shits and giggles (and I'm reading downloaded PDFs offline, so I say that counts as "off the internet" and "book").
My mother used to take me and my siblings to the library every single Saturday morning, and we checked out as many books as we could carry. She allowed us to read anything we wanted to read, so we read everything we could get our hands on. Our house was full of books.
I've been volunteering at and working in libraries since I was 10, when I volunteered to work at my elementary school library. Then I did the same at my junior and senior high school libraries, and simultaneously at my local public library. I worked part time at my university library as well, for actual money. In 2005 I got a full-time job running the computer network at a 4-branch public library in Louisiana, where I was always thrilled to see a parent visit with young children who were checking out piles of books.
One week at that library in Louisiana, the Children's Librarian was planning to read a book to the pre-school Story Time in which the main character was a black cat. She knew I had a black cat, so she asked me to bring the cat to work that day for a kind of "Show & Tell" after the book was read. So I did, and you should have seen the joy with which those pre-schoolers welcomed my cat Julius Caesar, and they all got to pet him, and several parents complained later that their children demanded that the family adopt a cat.
So when I say libraries are one of the best things in the world, I know what I'm talking about. What's the best thing about working in a library? It is that everyone you work with and all the customers you serve are all people who LOVE BOOKS. It's hard to find a better group of people to work with.
From 1962 to 1966 I worked after school and on Saturdays at the town public library. One of the best things that every happened in my life. Although one time I got in a world of trouble for "stealing" Lady Chatterly's Lover from the "closed book shelf (adult only)" and reading it to my friends. I think of it as my first book club experience.
I could walk to our local library. I could also walk to a large county park. I spent my youth getting books from the library and then laying on a picnic table next to a creek and reading for hours.
I'm very glad to hear that. My parents were lower middle class, but they were both very frugal, having grown up in the Great Depression. If we wanted a book that we could get for free at the library, then we got it from the library. I had to beg my mother for the 25 cents required to buy the occasional book from Scholastic Magazine's semi-annual paperback book sale edition. She always ended up giving it to me, but I was only allowed to buy ONE.
My favorite thing to do on a hot, still summer day was climb the big tree behind our house which had a very convenient narrow fork in a large branch, just right for sitting in while being shaded by the leaves. I'd climb up there with a book, followed by my cat, and sit there reading for hours. The cat, of course, slept on my lap the whole time. This is one of my favorite memories of childhood...me, the cat, a book and a tree.
BTW there was a tiny burbling creek next to the tree which added to the ambience.
I've seen this Caturday cartoon before, but can't remember if I posted it here, so I'm posting it now (and possibly again). It's just so funny and accurate that I LOL every time I see it.
Thanks to Wonkette and other sources, I know a lot about Moms for Liberty. It turns out, there are a lot of things I did not know about librarians. Are they fine? No, they are not. But they are doing their best, and it was an honor to share an evening with them. The film is so well done. See it in a theater where you can laugh at the book burners and cheer the librarians with everyone else.
"Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny"
No, actually, It won't . . . and we will have to be hearing and reading about that asshole, his cult and all the scumbags who enabled him . . . for the REST. OF. OUR. FUCKING. LIVES.
All the shit Republicans will try to name after him. All the academic disciplines, pro and con ('Dept of MAGA Studies'), the books, films, TV shows. And then there are his vile progeny . . .
Americans will rebel aggressively against any such noxious narcissism.
Vindictive acts of vicious vandalism will strip his filth, fascist, traitorous name OFF of any and all public facilitities he has the audacity to finance.
I will set several of the preliminary pyrotechnic examples.
President Donald Trump's decision to pardon entertainment titan Tim Leiweke this week may have been sparked by a recent "round of golf" with Leiweke's attorney, who reportedly brought up his client's case to the president between swings, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.
Leiweke was indicted in July related to a felony charge for attempting to rig the bid for a $375 million basketball arena in Texas, bragging to his colleagues at the time that he had been "very clever" at having "scared" other bidders away from the project, an admission that prosecutors felt ran afoul of antitrust laws.
But in November, Trump would host former GOP lawmaker Trey Gowdy - one of Leiweke's attorneys - for a round of golf at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, which the Journal learned of from "people familiar with the matter." Gowdy would later recall the event in his own words.
And the prez was a golfing buddy I recognized so I said, "Hey buddy, I'll pay you the million bucks for yer Liberrrry if you'll get my client out of this spot..."
What a fucking idiot. He never thought his allegiance to the Grand Old Leopards Eating People's Faces Party would fail to protect him. It was perfectly all right with him and his goddamned "conservative values" that King Donald the Mad was a fountain of racism until that racism was turned against him and his. This shithead sickens me, as do the Log Cabin nitwits and the Hispanics for Trump and the female collaborators and the black numpties like Larry Elder and Candace Owens. Morons who can look on unmoved at injustice and persecution right up untill they personally feel the lash.
I lived in a small town where the liberry had a no-no shelf. My English teacher checked out HST's Hell's Angels so I could read it. Subversion.
Hippos at the Hippo Cove:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GrmAIJfz3vk
George Chapman's comedies. Using quarto scans from the Boston Public Library's Barton collection (thanks, #InternetArchive). Just for shits and giggles (and I'm reading downloaded PDFs offline, so I say that counts as "off the internet" and "book").
Score one for the good guys.
File under "Make Europe Uninhabitable"
https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/06/europe/chernobyl-drone-strike-radiation-latam-intl
Project 2025 needs to be terminated with extreme (non-violent) prejudice.
He's barely literate, hated school, and that's why we're here talking about this.
Also hates other people. Libraries often act as community centers. Can't have that.
"Community" sounds like "Communism", and that's bad by default.
Provides computer time and resources to poor people. Terrible.
My mother used to take me and my siblings to the library every single Saturday morning, and we checked out as many books as we could carry. She allowed us to read anything we wanted to read, so we read everything we could get our hands on. Our house was full of books.
I've been volunteering at and working in libraries since I was 10, when I volunteered to work at my elementary school library. Then I did the same at my junior and senior high school libraries, and simultaneously at my local public library. I worked part time at my university library as well, for actual money. In 2005 I got a full-time job running the computer network at a 4-branch public library in Louisiana, where I was always thrilled to see a parent visit with young children who were checking out piles of books.
One week at that library in Louisiana, the Children's Librarian was planning to read a book to the pre-school Story Time in which the main character was a black cat. She knew I had a black cat, so she asked me to bring the cat to work that day for a kind of "Show & Tell" after the book was read. So I did, and you should have seen the joy with which those pre-schoolers welcomed my cat Julius Caesar, and they all got to pet him, and several parents complained later that their children demanded that the family adopt a cat.
So when I say libraries are one of the best things in the world, I know what I'm talking about. What's the best thing about working in a library? It is that everyone you work with and all the customers you serve are all people who LOVE BOOKS. It's hard to find a better group of people to work with.
From 1962 to 1966 I worked after school and on Saturdays at the town public library. One of the best things that every happened in my life. Although one time I got in a world of trouble for "stealing" Lady Chatterly's Lover from the "closed book shelf (adult only)" and reading it to my friends. I think of it as my first book club experience.
I could walk to our local library. I could also walk to a large county park. I spent my youth getting books from the library and then laying on a picnic table next to a creek and reading for hours.
Libraries really saved my life. I don’t know what I’d do without reading, and we were too poor to afford to buy books.
https://substack.com/@queenmeabh/note/c-63849381
I had the t-shirt!
Stollen!
I'm very glad to hear that. My parents were lower middle class, but they were both very frugal, having grown up in the Great Depression. If we wanted a book that we could get for free at the library, then we got it from the library. I had to beg my mother for the 25 cents required to buy the occasional book from Scholastic Magazine's semi-annual paperback book sale edition. She always ended up giving it to me, but I was only allowed to buy ONE.
My favorite thing to do on a hot, still summer day was climb the big tree behind our house which had a very convenient narrow fork in a large branch, just right for sitting in while being shaded by the leaves. I'd climb up there with a book, followed by my cat, and sit there reading for hours. The cat, of course, slept on my lap the whole time. This is one of my favorite memories of childhood...me, the cat, a book and a tree.
BTW there was a tiny burbling creek next to the tree which added to the ambience.
Yea! A small but important win for the people! Hands off my library!
I've seen this Caturday cartoon before, but can't remember if I posted it here, so I'm posting it now (and possibly again). It's just so funny and accurate that I LOL every time I see it.
https://substack.com/@queenmeabh/note/c-184926571
LOL!
You bring a dog food, water, and clean up after them - they think you are god!
You bring a cat food, water, and clean up after them - they MUST be a god!
https://substack.com/profile/155713940-queen-meabh/note/c-184937372
Cat the Ripper is currently issuing the purr of approval.
I was married to a librarian. We had our differences, obviously, but she was all integrity when it came to her job. So were her colleagues.
“Americans Hate Those!”
Well, you’re not wrong.
In other countries, they do a lot better on investments in things like these.
We need to do that too.
In case you missed my review of The Librarians,
Thanks to Wonkette and other sources, I know a lot about Moms for Liberty. It turns out, there are a lot of things I did not know about librarians. Are they fine? No, they are not. But they are doing their best, and it was an honor to share an evening with them. The film is so well done. See it in a theater where you can laugh at the book burners and cheer the librarians with everyone else.
Its coming to PBS in February
https://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/story/The-Librarians-To-Premiere-PBS-February-9
"Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny"
No, actually, It won't . . . and we will have to be hearing and reading about that asshole, his cult and all the scumbags who enabled him . . . for the REST. OF. OUR. FUCKING. LIVES.
All the shit Republicans will try to name after him. All the academic disciplines, pro and con ('Dept of MAGA Studies'), the books, films, TV shows. And then there are his vile progeny . . .
Americans will rebel aggressively against any such noxious narcissism.
Vindictive acts of vicious vandalism will strip his filth, fascist, traitorous name OFF of any and all public facilitities he has the audacity to finance.
I will set several of the preliminary pyrotechnic examples.
Yeah nobody is laughing about the third reich.
Ok maybe Mel brooks.
The Third Reich isn't funny until it's over.
President Donald Trump's decision to pardon entertainment titan Tim Leiweke this week may have been sparked by a recent "round of golf" with Leiweke's attorney, who reportedly brought up his client's case to the president between swings, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday.
Leiweke was indicted in July related to a felony charge for attempting to rig the bid for a $375 million basketball arena in Texas, bragging to his colleagues at the time that he had been "very clever" at having "scared" other bidders away from the project, an admission that prosecutors felt ran afoul of antitrust laws.
But in November, Trump would host former GOP lawmaker Trey Gowdy - one of Leiweke's attorneys - for a round of golf at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, which the Journal learned of from "people familiar with the matter." Gowdy would later recall the event in his own words.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-ticket-prices-pardon-tim-leiweke-4b33a540?mod=hp_lead_pos1
"375 million? That's chump change"
And the prez was a golfing buddy I recognized so I said, "Hey buddy, I'll pay you the million bucks for yer Liberrrry if you'll get my client out of this spot..."