Giles goes for the gold (or at least the buck fifty) with One Hundred Fifty Short Posts About Whatever the Hell He Wants.
For example, in Number 93
Fuck medieval -- let's get Darwinian.
He writes, regarding Rev. Sharpton joining the race for President.
"I think that the campaign that we are beginning to officially embark upon will change American politics," the civil rights leader said at a news conference after filing campaign papers at the Federal Election Commission.Sharpton, 48, said he was the only candidate who was "anti-war, anti-death penalty, anti-tax cut across the board." Sharpton said he would reach out to disaffected voters, including Latinos, blacks, gays and lesbians, and young people.
Think that ranking is in order of importance -- or at least numbers -- seeing as Hispanics Now Outnumber Blacks As Largest U.S. Minority roup, Census Bureau Reports:
Hispanics now comprise nearly 13 percent of the U.S. population, which grew to 284.8 million in July 2001. That's up from 35.3 million, or 12.5 percent of the country's 281.4 million residents in April 2000.Blacks make up 12.7 percent of the nation's population, up from 12.6 percent in April 2000. The black population grew by 700,000 in the 15 months after the census was released.
Whites remained the largest single population group, numbering about 199.3 million in July 2001, nearly 70 percent of all U.S. residents.
Asians are the next largest minority group after blacks and Hispanics, at about 12.1 million, or 4 percent of the population.
Want to know more? Check out the press release, Census Bureau Releases Population Estimates by Age, Sex, Race and Hispanic Origin.
Bonus round (subject line related): Five Technically Legal Signs for Your Library.
Oh, if only I was still working in a library! Great signs, thnx.
Speaking of which, here's a spanking new blog that some people might want to know about:
http://www.saveourlibraries.org/blog/
Who's a librarian? George?
David, I made the link in your comment active. Hope you don't mind.
And George isn't a librarian, but his alter(ed) ego is.
Neo, no worries. Do you really miss battling the Skeksis in the stacks, though?
Look, I AM the monster at the end of this book. Skeksis? No problem.
[& I knew where all the light-switches were!]
I have no idea where Karen's copy of The Monster at the End of This Book is. And just found out they did a sequel with Elmo.
Now that's scary.
Still not as scary as Dark Crystal, though.
Or the stacks.
The stacks aren't scary, Aaron. But those of us who used to get busy w/ our sweeties back up in there sure did appreciate those of you who were afraid of them and stayed the hell out.
Hey- the Hell the stx aren't scary! You take that back! We library-workers carefully foster that notion to keep patrons OUT of libraries- everyone knows that most librarians don't actually want to deal w/patrons.
Whoops, sorry, Neo.
Stacks are REALLY REALLY SCARY.
THINGS live in there. Things with LOTS OF LEGS. And TEETH. BIG ENORMOUS TEETH. VENOMOUS BIG ENORMOUS TEETH.
Avoid them like the plague. Stacks, I mean. You take your life in your hands.
(is that better?)
Damnstraight. Stx-monster. Huge. Irritable. What you said.
[Thnx for the backup, Hanne. I mean, just Think what would happen if tons of ppl started flooding libraries everywhere- ppl might Learn something! Gasp!]
Thanks, kids. That reminds me that I really should return Dark Matter, Racism: A Short History and The Essential Ellison to the library before that drive up to Minneapolis next week they become all overdue-y and fine-y.
I'll use the drive-through return slot to avoid the scariness within. Satisfied?
THINGS live in there. Things with LOTS OF LEGS. And TEETH. BIG ENORMOUS TEETH. VENOMOUS BIG ENORMOUS TEETH.
Like spiders? Big... giant... spiders? o.o