How can you be taken seriously if your stuck in an endless sea of fiction?

The push to have the general public support his fictional character as non-fictional is why many a man are non sympathetic to their plight.

You can call yourself a garden hose until the cow jumps over the moon, but don’t bully me into your delusion. And for the sake of the children, please use the bathroom that corresponds to the plumbing you were born with.

Shame on the physiatrist who enable these neighbors of ours. Ok. If you truly feel that your a garden hose, then be the best hose you can be.
…and while you’re at it, be proud of it too.

What would Phinehas do? Numbers 25:7-8:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=numbers+25%3A7-8&version=NRSVCE

What would Mattathias do? 1st Maccabees 2:23-26:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+maccabees+2%3A23-26&version=NRSVCE

Any sex pervert like that pretending to be a woman will not be permitted around my granddaughters, and God help them if my wife catches them before I do.

Yep – we are in the digital age where books are as appealing to the youth as stone tablets. As if we need yet another reason for them to be turned off the library.

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The late Christopher Johnson (Midwest Conservative Journal) would write on occasion about how his job had just disappeared underneath him between 1995 and 2012. He was let go at age 57, having worked at that particular suburban library for about (his obituary was not altogether clear) 30 years. The stupidities of the American Library Association haven’t leaked out to the local politicians who finance public libraries.

In my observation, serious librarians prefer to attend meetings of specialty associations or particular roundtables within the ALA and have no interest in the organization as a whole except as a source of job leads. They also do not give a rip about the professional literature bar a discrete set of publications (e.g. Library Trends). and chuckle at librarians who do. There was 15 or 20 years ago a coterie of librarians who attempted to set up networks promoting professional values in the association, but it petered out for lack of interest among the broad mass of librarians.

Library school curricula were shot through with humbug 40 years ago and the situation got worse in the ensuing decades as the remaining practical courses gave way to ‘information studies’ courses. Ideally, library schools would be shuttered en bloc and replaced with certificate programs issued consequent to internships at state libraries, research university libraries, and notable public systems like the New York Public Library. You could train archivists and museum curators the same way. NB, most library employees can be trained on the job or are properly recruited from the ranks of people with business or IT training. College degrees are of interest for those who are going to be assigned to special collections, reference, instruction, or bibliography, but not much. Forty-two credits completed in a discrete discipline germane to the library’s function should do.

NB a great deal of the pathology in library administration can be understood as a function of status anxiety on the part of the salaried segment employed in libraries. The larger society could have repaired this problem by refusing to countenance library schools and refusing to limit hiring for select positions to people who had passed through them. Another source of pathology has been the deficit of operational measures of competence in library administration (an insoluble problem).

As is, the advent of digital media has been robbing libraries of much of their function, and they weren’t exactly bustling places thirty years ago. The ALA twits are begging for their constituency to be put out on the curb, but there haven’t been enough hard asses in local government to make it happen and college administrators are perfectly happy with grotesque silliness and squandering other people’s money. It’s what they do.