Because the rights of hypothetical children that don't actually exist supersede those of living breathing human women.

This post is brought to you by NPR being on in the bookbinding studio, and the fact that I had to put headphones on because it is too early in the morning for me to experience this much rage.

When you're in trouble, you can ( Read more... )

So previously, I've talked about de-religionifying the "Good King Wenceslas" carol, but this year, I've decided it should stay religious. Particularly the bit that's all:

Therefore Christian men be sure,
Wealth or rank possessing,
Ye, who will now bless the poor,
Shall yourselves find blessing.And then we staple it to the foreheads of all the ( Read more... )

I am pro-Union all the way. Like, I will be joining the Graduate Assistantship Union-y doodles even though because of some funked-up Iowa law, you can still benefit from the Union without actually joining it and paying dues and such. Which strikes me as a rather douchey thing to do, but I know some Princeton Support Staffers would jump right on ( Read more... )

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The Shit vs. Fan collision (in which Boring Manager Rob is shit and his Boring Manager Ben provides the fan on the orders of the University Librarian) that has been circling the drain for the past few years seems to be coming to a head. This is good in the sense that maybe they will finally fire BMR's sorry ass for you know, not doing his job (how ( Read more... )

So I was fully planning on going to work today ( Read more... )

Boring Manager Rob is ( Read more... )

There is a library book that has multiple chapters* worth of this bullshit:

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I wrote most of this out on post-it notes during work, but never got around to typing it up ( Read more... )

Now, I admit that I know pretty much nothing about architecture, and for all I know , the new Lewis Library is an architectural masterpiece and not a giant sea monster (it totally looks like a giant sea monster though). But it seems to me that the point here would be to design a nice looking building that also manages to serve the purpose it was ( Read more... )