Privilege

Fri, 30 May 2003

One of the really cool things about working at KCLS is that if I place books on hold, they're delivered directly to my desk. Of course there's some delay in actually getting them, because it takes them a couple of days to make their way to the Service Center and I'm only there a couple [...]

Explain this evil concept again?

Fri, 30 May 2003

A Guantanamo Bay death camp is in the works. I am living in Nazi Germany. What's so bad about allowing people a fair trial? For heaven's sake, can't we stop playing so holier-than-thou? American human rights violations are one of the best-kept secrets on this side of the Pond.

Says who?

Fri, 30 May 2003

In class discussion on Wednesday, when the Digital Reference Assignment was due, Michael Harkovitch mentioned one of the questions he had answered for the IPL, about the meaning of the word pimping, used by a certain person in a certain context. For him this question raised issues of authority, due both to the lack of [...]