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(The handful of you who are also friends of mine on Facebook may see this twice. Sorry for the duplication.)
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From "BookSmarts by Tom Racine"

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From a blog called "No man is an iland" (not a misspelling -- I cut-and-pasted that!) via one called "Reading the Past." (The latter specializes in historical fiction.)If ancient Rome had the Internet...Bad week last week, so thought I'd lighten the mood by writing something different ( Read more... )

A short educational feature from your friendly local Library Ninja.

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When last seen in my RSS feeds, The Onion had this snarky remark about my favorite classification system:DUBLIN, OH-Members of the OCLC Online Computer Library Center’s Editorial Policy Committee, which oversees the Dewey Decimal System library classification system, were no closer Monday to assigning a definitive call number to the recently ( Read more... )

Logged into the account for the Bujold list and noticed this name on a spam:

engram spoof

This person probably isn't a Sc**nt*l*g*st.

I'd be even more worried if this were a "real" columnist, but it's from humor columnist Andy Borowitz' Borowitz Report. An excerpt:DEMOCRATS SEEKING WAYS TO SQUANDER HISTORIC OPPORTUNITY

'We Will Manage to Screw This Up,' Vows DeanGiven a Republican president with plummeting approval ratings and a Republican congressional leadership that is being ( Read more... )

At least this article is meant to be silly. From the Morning File column of the Post-Gazette:A Ward of the SteelersFrom Bill Kennedy of Latrobe: Now that he's back and campaigning to be A Steeler For Life, he should be honored by one of the community's institutes of higher health care costs with a patient floor in his name, backed by the sponsor of ( Read more... )