Ann Coulter Needs Your Love and Prayers- November 16, 2007 The other day I was in Costco, when I saw Ann Coulter's new book "If Democrats had any brains, they'd be Republicans." Since I don't consider myself a Democrat, the title didn't bother me. In fact, considering the Dem's leadership's accommodation of the President on eavesdropping, Iraq, Mukasey, and so forth, I think the title has some unintended irony. If they were Republicans, they'd look good to their fellow party members for advancing the President's agenda. I digress. The reason I'm...http://www.lisnews.org/node/28239 Star Trek, Real Life and Government Documents- November 3, 2007 My friend and colleague Carlos Diaz of Evergreen College in Olympia WA has a great first post as Free Government Information's November blogger of the month. He writes about how a few devices that were featured in Star Trek and Star Trek:TNG are now commonplace items. He also reflects on the limits of electronic government information. If you live within driving distance of Evergreen college and have even a passing interest in government information, you should stop by and say hi to Carlos....http://www.lisnews.org/node/28124 Happy Anniversary- November 2, 2007 Happy 8th Anniversary to LISNews and thanks to Blake for giving so many of us a place to observe, laugh and dispute in. I was hoping to do something more creative with my first drupal-powered LISNews entry, but it has been a long morning of administrative reports, digitizing Congressional reports from the 1930s and patrons who get very upset when extremely common (hard to do business without) words are spoken in the library. Not to them, but in the library. So happy it's lunchtime. Looking...http://www.lisnews.org/node/28117 |