I think the reviewer is referring more to the lack of rights for women at that time, which was a fact of life. Whereas in The Handmaid’s Tale, it’s a speculative future.

I know, right?!

I’m still holding out for the rumored 3-hour cut version of The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford.

I think it was the review from one of the film festivals.

Also after Steve left, he knew that Nancy definitely needed someone to get her home safely. And he was going there anyway!

7?

Agh I wish Netflix still had That Mitchell and Webb Look, just so I could re-watch the insanity.

I’ve never encountered or heard of anyone having sex in the library. People sleep in the library all the time though.

Yes this! ALA is just the central membership org/lobbying arm!

The repository for children’s books is a major one. I mean, do you really want to have to buy the sheer number of books that children can/should read?

Free access to databases you probably wouldn’t ever be able to buy on your own either. I use the library’s Zinio for magazines (because meh subscribing to a magazine I will read for one hour) and Morghim has been using the public library subscription to Lynda.com to learn Python coding for free.

I just attended my state’s library association conference, and protecting public school libraries and librarians was a hot topic which will be the main focus of the organization’s lobbying efforts this year.

I’ve actually read several academic articles and studies that discuss the fact that even people who do not use the library do not generally wish to see it closed. People often view it as a public good, even if they themselves are not using it.

My local public library hosts a free law clinic twice a month, with law students, clerks, etc who can offer legal advice to folks who might not otherwise be able to afford it. If that’s not a public good, I don’t know what is.

Also, and I know this guy is in England, not the US, but here they are trying to kill school libraries even faster than public ones, so his argument was definitely befuddling.

I currently work in a university library (and am 6 credits away from being a librarian myself). The most sarcastic people I’ve ever worked with. It’s the best.

No way, that’s too simple and definitely not dystopian enough.

The best situation was when I lived in a converted house that had been made into rental units. I was the only person living on the first floor and who used the front entryway (it was basically a vestibule and there was a second door to unlock to get into my apartment) and so the delivery people could just leave my…

You mean like the nice lock box for packages that the USPS mailman uses? Or at least, I have that since my neighborhood has those big, shared metal mailboxes instead of each house having an individual mailbox at their door.

If it’s any consolation, apparently the head editor over at the Onion quit over the imminent Kinja switch for that site.