ALA 2010 Book Cart Drill Team - Pittsburg

Christina, who is technically a contributor to this blog, attended ALA and participated in the winning Book Cart Drill Team.

Apparently, when librarians get together at a conference...this is what they do.

Update: Official Version with inane commentary.

Deathly Hallows: Official Trailer

Fucking
Epic

Lobster Dog

Lobster Dog is a Lobster Dog

Sex in the Garden of Eden: Augustine, City of God

So, I found a copy of the City of God online which is easily navigable. I started reading it and remembered how fucking awesome it is. Everyone needs to read all of these chapters, but one especially needs to read chapters 23 and 24. They are only a few pages long. It is some of the greatest shit ever written.

Augustine, City of God, Book XIV.

Chapter 17.—Of the Nakedness of Our First Parents, Which They Saw After Their Base and Shameful Sin.

Chapter 18.—Of the Shame Which Attends All Sexual Intercourse.

Chapter 19.—That It is Now Necessary, as It Was Not Before Man Sinned, to Bridle Anger and Lust by the Restraining Influence of Wisdom.

Chapter 20.—Of the Foolish Beastliness of the Cynics.

Chapter 21.—That Man’s Transgression Did Not Annul the Blessing of Fecundity Pronounced Upon Man Before He Sinned But Infected It with the Disease of Lust.

Chapter 22.—Of the Conjugal Union as It Was Originally Instituted and Blessed by God.

Chapter 23.—Whether Generation Should Have Taken Place Even in Paradise Had Man Not Sinned, or Whether There Should Have Been Any Contention There Between Chastity and Lust.

Chapter 24.—That If Men Had Remained Innocent and Obedient in Paradise, the Generative Organs Should Have Been in Subjection to the Will as the Other Members are.

Chapter 26.—That We are to Believe that in Paradise Our First Parents Begat Offspring Without Blushing.

Robert Byrd: Dead, Racist

I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.

— Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944.


"America has lost a voice of principle and reason."
-President Barack Obama


It's nice to live in a country where we don't begrudge or think ill of persons simply because they were members of the Ku Klux Klan.

Done Been Warned.

For Every Girl, For Every Boy

See? It sucks to be either sex.