Our library has slanted book shelves
April 13, 2012 7:41 AM Subscribe
In honor of National Library Week, a man who does not like librarians.
"Instead of honorably reflecting the people's clear voice at the ballot box regarding basic values, our local government has either ignorantly or complicitly paid attention only to the destructive, discordant, out-of-balance, Radical Militants of the ALA."
"Instead of honorably reflecting the people's clear voice at the ballot box regarding basic values, our local government has either ignorantly or complicitly paid attention only to the destructive, discordant, out-of-balance, Radical Militants of the ALA."
This post was deleted for the following reason: Crazy op-ed from a local wackadoodle newspaper column does not make for a good mefi post -- mathowie
Once more, the enemy is depicted as both radical geniuses and incompetent rubes. These librarians are ruining everything including all the good parts of their ruin everything plan, those idiot scoundrels!
posted by TwelveTwo at 7:47 AM on April 13, 2012 [1 favorite]
posted by TwelveTwo at 7:47 AM on April 13, 2012 [1 favorite]
"social-activist bosses of the American Library Association" has been added to my list of "words unlikely to appear in the same sentence".
posted by Mike D at 7:47 AM on April 13, 2012
posted by Mike D at 7:47 AM on April 13, 2012
Please add "clamoring to fondle its musty Dewey Decimal System" to your list.
posted by maryr at 7:51 AM on April 13, 2012 [3 favorites]
posted by maryr at 7:51 AM on April 13, 2012 [3 favorites]
Actually my wife the library assistant grumbles at having to provide people with copies of books by Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich, and Ron Paul, and in fact they're often prominently on display because it's in THAT sort of county.
But she at least understands why those books are there, alongside the "how not to kill yourself because society thinks you're an abomination" books that this bozo wants removed.
posted by Foosnark at 7:54 AM on April 13, 2012
But she at least understands why those books are there, alongside the "how not to kill yourself because society thinks you're an abomination" books that this bozo wants removed.
posted by Foosnark at 7:54 AM on April 13, 2012
"Mike Thompson is past chairman of the 5,000-member, nonpartisan Florida Conservative Union."
Um....is it just me or are "nonpartisan" and "Conservative" (or "Liberal", for that matter) in the same sentence somewhat contradictory?
posted by TDavis at 7:55 AM on April 13, 2012
Um....is it just me or are "nonpartisan" and "Conservative" (or "Liberal", for that matter) in the same sentence somewhat contradictory?
posted by TDavis at 7:55 AM on April 13, 2012
punk ass book jockeys.
posted by Think_Long at 7:57 AM on April 13, 2012
posted by Think_Long at 7:57 AM on April 13, 2012
Hmm. This gentleman appears to believe that The Great Physician's RX for Irritable Bowel Syndrome contains "themes that are a thinly disguised ridicule of [the Christian] faith."
Hmm.
posted by neroli at 7:57 AM on April 13, 2012
Hmm.
posted by neroli at 7:57 AM on April 13, 2012
Foosnark: "Libraries are an antidote to Fox News."
But some people are so addicted to the poison, the antidote not only isn't something they want to take, they want everyone else's souls to die along with them.
I know you can't argue logic with the illogical but:
"There are no titles for heterosexuality..."
Except for, you know, every single one except for the 18 gay-themed ones he mentions.
If having 18 books about homosexuality (one of them anti-gay even by Mike Thompson's standards, which makes me think that it must be written by Fred Phelps himself) makes the Fernandina branch library Gay Pride Inc., then my apartment must be the Chicago HQ. (Though I'm pretty sure Gerber/Hart would take offense at that. And, you know, just about every queer person I know.)
posted by MCMikeNamara at 7:58 AM on April 13, 2012
But some people are so addicted to the poison, the antidote not only isn't something they want to take, they want everyone else's souls to die along with them.
I know you can't argue logic with the illogical but:
"There are no titles for heterosexuality..."
Except for, you know, every single one except for the 18 gay-themed ones he mentions.
If having 18 books about homosexuality (one of them anti-gay even by Mike Thompson's standards, which makes me think that it must be written by Fred Phelps himself) makes the Fernandina branch library Gay Pride Inc., then my apartment must be the Chicago HQ. (Though I'm pretty sure Gerber/Hart would take offense at that. And, you know, just about every queer person I know.)
posted by MCMikeNamara at 7:58 AM on April 13, 2012
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posted by jquinby at 7:47 AM on April 13, 2012