Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Month: September 2004

  • Fundamentalism, Our Founding Fathers, and Jesus

    Congress.Org — Jesus was a liberal Jesus was quite clear that what he found most upsetting was people using the letter of the law while ignoring the spirit of it. The spirit of the law, according to Jesus, was to love your neighbor. Trying to deny your fellow human beings, including your gay brothers and…

  • Iraq had no WMD: the final verdict

    Guardian Unlimited: Iraq had no WMD: the final verdict President George Bush now admits that stockpiles have not been found in Iraq but claimed as recently as Thursday that “Saddam Hussein had the capability of making weapons, and he could have passed that capability on to the enemy”. The draft Duelfer report, according to the…

  • The passing Anne Grodzins Lipow

    LIPOW, Anne Grodzins I’m sad about Ms. Lipow’s passing. I read a lot of her work when I was writng my Virtual Reference Culminating paper. Here is a web page with some really nice comments about Ms. Lipow and her life.

  • Far graver than Vietnam

    Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | Far graver than Vietnam “We have a growing, maturing insurgency group,” he told me. “We see larger and more coordinated military attacks. They are getting better and they can self-regenerate. The idea there are x number of insurgents, and that when they’re all dead we can get out…

  • A little quick hello

    I haven’t posted in a few days…I apologize. I’ve been dealing with some issues that have left me feeling a little bit downtrodden lately. And so I just have kind of lost the oomph to post on this site. I’ve also been very busy at work. So I just wanted to tell you that I’m…