There is a very straight-laced coworker who runs a bankruptcy/economy news stories list within my workplace. She is always on me to "feed" her more stories. I ran across this today: How coke-addled geeks crashed the global economy, and I'm very tempted to send it to her. Inappropriate? Yes - but funny.

Doing the right thing can be awfully

It is exactly this kind of thing that makes me fear and loathe travel.

The Social Responsibilities Special Interest Section (SR-SIS) of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) continues its tradition of giving something back to the community that hosts our Annual Meeting with its tenth annual Children’s Book Drive -- "A Book for Every ChildSR-SIS has selected the Willamette Writers Books for Kids program as ( Read more... )

Lori Gottlieb's recent piece in The Atlantic is annoying. It isn't just her obvious belief that her circle of friends is exactly like everyone else -- and therefore the conclusions she draws based on a couple of chit-chats with her girlfriends are valid of society at large. It is that she is so damn nearsighted about the whole thing. In all her ( Read more... )

He is the man who blew the whistle on Abu Ghraib. He was a reserve soldier in Iraq in 2004. He was given a CD of the photos by one of the people involved. In the words of one profile, "They were photographs of his colleagues, some of them men and women he had known since high school - torturing and abusing Iraqi prisoners ( Read more... )

Every year, the Social Responsibilities Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries sponsors a children's book drive to benefit a school or schools in the city in which the AALL conference is being held. ( This year’s efforts will benefit two of the most needy schools in the St. Louis area, Central Elementary and Vashon 9th Grade Academy. )

The American Red Cross is coordinating a massive relief effort across the Gulf Coast. Their disaster relief fund has been much depleted by the Indian Ocean tsunami. They've set up a donation page with Yahoo, because their normal online donation services were being swamped.
http://store.yahoo.com/redcross-donate/

Save The World - One Click At A Time!

On each of these websites, you can click a button to support the cause -- each click creates funding, and costs you nothing! Bookmark these sites, and click once a day!


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