Even after controlling for other factors that may mean some people are more likely to read than others (education, gender, age, etc.), a recent study shows that people who read more are more likely to live longer… Compared with those who did not read books, those who read for up to three and a half […]
Luckily, he’s living under Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” desk… (Oh, and here’s a summary of 25 of Trump’s biggest lies, exaggerations and misrepresentations from his convention speech last night.)
This is long but worth a read… Dear Democrats, As the absurd Trump convention grinds on, somewhere in Philadelphia I imagine there is an army of volunteers inflating one hundred thousand colorful balloons. It is no secret that not all of us are going to be in a celebratory mood when those balloons rain down […]
In 2006, I took the only Children’s Librarianship class that my library school offered. I did extremely well in it and was one of only six students (out of a class of 20+) that our prof invited for a end-of-class meal and celebration for her most promising students. One of the reasons she saw great potential […]
Kanye West recently released a provocative, controversial video featuring wax versions of numerous famous people who are connected to him in one way or another, all lying in a bed together naked. The slow pans of the various naked wax figures plus the viewer’s knowledge of the various interactions West has had with each of […]
Recent events (Federal Liberals sweep in Canada, Sask Party dominates in Saskatchewan, rise of Trump in States, Brexit vote in UK) have me thinking a lot about the notion of “the voter is always right” vs. “people voting against their best interests” “The voter is always right” is something you usually hear after an election or […]
Too bad this site didn’t have a line for “library book/movie/CD”. 😉 (via)
So I’m having a bit of a rough June… I won’t get into the gory details (or post the photos!) but it involves a minor medical procedure, a longer-than-expected recovery, an unexpected infection which may or may not be a result of that first procedure and which swelled one of my arms up to double the size of […]
So last night, the Associated Press announced that they’d surveyed all Democratic super-delegates and there were enough who indicated previously undeclared support for Hillary Clinton that AP was ready to consider her the presumptive Democratic Presidential nominee prior to today’s votes in California, New Jersey and a handful of other states. Journalist Glenn Greenwald summarizes […]
