PAUL RANTS

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Who, Me?

Posted by Paul at December 29th, 2008

Dick Cheney has no idea why he is so unpopular.

Allow me to explain, Dick. Trumping up a war to siphon billions to war contractors just doesn’t sit well with most people. When you cause American soldiers to be killed by authorizing torture, and let the grunts who carried out your orders twist in the wind, well, that stings a bit as well. And outing a CIA officer? To get back at her husband for disagreeing with you? Yeah, ouch. You lied us in to a costly occupation with no strategy. You subverted the U.S. Constitution. You violated the Geneva Conventions. In fact, it’s become clear you’re probably a war criminal. I don’t think it was the “tough decisions” that made you so unpopular, as you claim. It was actually the tragic, greedy, illegal decisions that did it.

So… we all clear now?

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Library Update

Posted by Paul at December 22nd, 2008

When they postponed until December what was supposed to be done four months ago, I just smiled. My supervisor assured me it would really happen this time. But I knew better. Today the “I told you so” moment came: internet sign-up software won’t be installed until after Christmas… Happy Holidays!

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Everyone who works in the library has two ID cards that must be carried at all times. One lets you in the building, one doesn’t — but will, sometime in the future. This has been going on for two years. Another thing: the two cards must never, ever, touch eachother. If they do, the card that lets you in the building will cease to perform its one and only function.

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There used to be a big audio/visual department upstairs, where I worked afternoons. But all the a/v materials were moved downstairs. Now I sit at the reference desk. People think I’m a reference librarian. But I’m actually still the audio/visual clerk. Funny how that works.

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Some hard and fast rules:

1) A particularly attractive or pleasant library patron will show up only when a smelly mentally ill library patron is present, and vice-versa.

2) Although there is a small monthly fee to park in the employee garage, when I get to work Monday and Tuesday mornings it’s full.

3) Every six months or so some busy-body library patron will come in and lecture me on how to do my job. I’m not permitted to tell them to fuck off and get a life.

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