OPB’s Think Out Loud radio program had a recent show on Pedestrian Law: Nov. 1, 2010, Foot Traffic and guests included Ray Thomas who wrote Oregon Pedestrian Rights: A Guide to People on Foot.
Read more about loopy, oblivious, clueless, narcissistic, aggressive, flaky, indifferent, silly, stupid, and distracted pedestrians, drivers, and bicyclists at the Foot Traffic program Comments section and at my previous OLR blog pedestrian law posts.
If you’re a history buff or just (!) a bibliophile, this Government Book Talk Blog is for you.
What award did they win? The Silver Inkwell Communications Award.
Justice William W. Bedsworth, in the November 2010, “Criminal Waste of Space” column in the OC Lawyer Magazine:
Excerpt: ‘… Take Congress.(1) Congress is about as lousy a job as you can have without getting involved with fish or sewage. I don’t understand why it isn’t the loser of the election that gets stuck going to Congress.(2)
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And since I’m not willing to do the job myself, I don’t question the work being done by the guy who is. That’s a rule of mine. You will never hear me criticize the work of my garbage man or my presiding judge.
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But I must admit my willingness to kvetch has expanded somewhat since the two national political parties turned the Congress of the United States into a third-rate game of frat boy dodgeball. I really am dismayed that they are so busy trying to beat the other team that they no longer care about the cost to the country. They’re so obsessed with being doctrinally pure Republicans and Democrats that they’ve lost interest in being Americans. …‘ (Link to full article.)
Take a judicious, so to speak, humor break and read Justice William W. Bedsworth, in his November 2010, “Criminal Waste of Space” column in the OC Lawyer Magazine: Accursed Congress
Excerpt: ‘… Take Congress.(1) Congress is about as lousy a job as you can have without getting involved with fish or sewage. I don’t understand why it isn’t the loser of the election that gets stuck going to Congress.(2)
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And since I’m not willing to do the job myself, I don’t question the work being done by the guy who is. That’s a rule of mine. You will never hear me criticize the work of my garbage man or my presiding judge.
But I must admit my willingness to kvetch has expanded somewhat since the two national political parties turned the Congress of the United States into a third-rate game of frat boy dodgeball. I really am dismayed that they are so busy trying to beat the other team that they no longer care about the cost to the country. They’re so obsessed with being doctrinally pure Republicans and Democrats that they’ve lost interest in being Americans. …‘ (Link to full article.)
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20 Heroic Librarians Who Save the World
There are also flesh and blood librarian heroes, some of whom you can read about in this book – and they are almost as much fun, and as ornery, as the comic books ones:
It’s never too soon to note this on your mind’s calendar:
November 7, 2010: First Sunday in November at 2 a.m. (local time).
Clocks must be moved back one hour (use it or lose it – or just lose it – sigh).
Why should you read Justice Bedsworth? Who else would write a sentence like this in a judicial opinion? (Which also won him a Judicial Wisdom of the Year (2003) award.)
“There is no non-culpable explanation for monkeys in your underpants.”
For this month’s joyful ruminations from the Bedsworth bench:
As if parents didn’t have enough to worry about:
A beSpacific post: WSJ Investigates Extensive Web Tracking of Children Online:
September 17, 2010, Children Face Intensive Tracking, by Steve Stecklow:
Librarians and Libraries may look peaceful, but underneath all that quiet and deceptive-calm is a seething mass of email, chat, IM, and other reference Question-Answer activity that keeps us mighty busy.
But the big question, at least for some of us who participate in a lot of Digital Reference service (also called e-Reference), is how to identify oneself, that is, how to answer that dreaded question from utter strangers:
WHAT IS YOUR NAME?
It’s hard to believe, but there are still working people out there who need but don’t know about the Social Security Death Index.
So I’m doing my bit to spread the word one reader at a time.
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