Links of Interest

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The Librarian
Gakked from hildy - The American Library Association presents: What real librarians thought of The Librarian. They were asked to rate it on enjoyability and on how it presented librarians in general.

Predictably, some just didn't get it, particularly the one who complained that "its paper-thin structure is a compilation of uncomfortably recognizable snippets from Raiders of the Lost Ark, Sherlock Holmes, and Romancing the Stone." (Dude! They're called "homages"!) On the other hand, there was the ubercool one who said "Not since Buffy left network TV and we lost Giles have I had so much fun with a librarian on television." Bonus points for the one who answered "What would you like The Librarian to tackle in any future sequel?" with "Karl Rove's evil empire." And I got a kick out of "What was the most "real" aspect of the film? Not one thing really, that's why it was fun."

EXTREME bonus points and amusement to "What was the most "real" aspect of the film? The fact that librarians know everything and that we are all part of a secret society." Although the one that totally made me laugh out loud was the pained review from the woman with degrees in archeology and library science: "What was the most "real" aspect of the film? Uh...Gravity apparently still functions."

Politics, but not as usual
On a much more serious note, Senator Barbara Boxer has signed the vote to challenge the Ohio electoral votes. There was a challenge to the electoral vote in 2000, but it wasn't discussed in Congress because a Senator didn't sign it. This time, one has. Now the Congress must discuss the electoral vote, for no less than 2 hours per house. Will it change the outcome? Of course not. But it will, hopefully, highlight voting irregularity. Ohio was a deciding state - a state which saw voter suppression and faults in the electronic machines - like the one that registered more votes for Bush than people who voted - by a couple of thousand votes. The system our country is founded on is broken. Bush has nothing to lose by addressing these problems. This is something he should welcome to prevent lost confidence in our most basic right!

Already RushLimbaugh.com and Glendale Oregon News are ripping her new ones, calling her a fool, a traitor, a terrorist sympathizer, etc. You can write her here.

Comments

[terri-osborne.livejournal.com]

First off, I suddenly have an urge to watch THE LIBRARIAN again. :)

Second, if you ask me, Limbaugh's an idiot. If we can figuring out why people are listening to idiots like him (and why people are paying any mind to Fox News, too), then we'll make a dent in the division in this country. *sigh*

Barbara Boxer rocks. It may be a fruitless gesture, but if it helps bring back some of the confidence that the system works, it's not entirely pointless.

[fiona64.livejournal.com]

The simple answer is: people are stupid. The more complicated, and probably more accurate, answer is that programs like those on Fox, and commentators like Limbaugh, bear much in common with other propaganda machines we've read about in our history books. They manipulate the undereducated by scapegoating, just for one example. This election, the gay marriage issue was used in much the same way that (if you'll all excuse the violation of Godwin's Law), Jews were scapegoated by the Reichstag. And that's to say nothing of the "If you ain't with us, yer agin' us" attitude displayed toward anyone who actually had the PATRIOTIC good sense to stand up and say "This is NOT right."