Typo of the Day for Librarians
Tarrif* (for Tariff)

Right before leaving the White House, Dubya managed to pull off one last-gasp galling gallophobic maneuver. He effectively banned the importation of Roquefort cheese by placing a punishingly high tariff on it in order to get back at the French for spurning our own specialty, hormone-riddled beef. There were 27 cases of Tarrif* exported to OhioLINK, which makes it a “high probability” typo on the Ballard list. Fortunately, Mr. Obama likes fromage and the French and, unlike Bush, isn’t cheesed off at them for being sharper and more sophisticated than we are and not supporting the war in Iraq. The current president even had a domestic cheese named after him back in 2007: the Barick Obama, made by Lazy Lady Farms in Westfield, Vermont.

I am glad we are all liberal democrats and can bust a gut over former presidents we don’t like. I have some knee slappers about Ike and Hoover. Don’t get me started with Nixon, humor about him and misteaks in cataloging will leave on the floor.

Secondly, politics will always seep into conversations, but at least amoung my collegues, no one steps beyond the boundaries into extreme partisianship. I’ve never had a political evangelist try to convert me or humiliate me into one position or another and have never had to argue with anyone. Granted, I may be working for an anomolous library, but for the most part, and I think it’s obvious, that all persons, including AL, are only arguing from their own current circumstances, yet turning it into a broad and sweeping statement about all libraries. We all know that’s a logical fallacy.

You’re at a Hillbilly Wedding called American Politics. Now why that wedding needs to take place in the middle of a library meeting, I cannot imagine. Like someone esle said, “Grow Up.” Yes, take your political Triades outside and grow up!!

But we haven’t gotten to the most amusing “politics” yet. You know the kind where five people get a promotion but for some reason the sixth does not? or why department X keeps getting denied more funding while Department Y keeps getting a bonus for doing nothing? Or how about the “Girls Club Syndrome” as discussed in an OLD AL Blog Long ago?

Why talk about library business and issues, that’s hard. Much easier to go on some political tirade.

While there are blowhards of all political stripes, the Lefties are the most aggressive and seem to think everyone must agree with them. There is a time and place for everything, most adults have figured this out, some haven’t.

Really.. wanting to stick to the topics of a meeting, and get the h3ll out of there as fast as possible, means I’m anti-gay, pro abortion and for the right to bear arms?? Really? You can determine that from that sentiment alone? I think you seriously need to do a little reality check. Believe it nor not, some of us just want to get the meeting over. And veering off into other topics is just going to prolong it. To the point where I seriously start to consider trying to saw through my wrists with my micra. Grow up indeed.

Grow up.