“It is necessary that all freedom-loving peoples of the world unite with the Muslims and together condemn the inhuman aggressions of Israel.”
– Ayatullah Ruhullah Musavi Khomeini

No, not the Kevin Costner movie, my library. Every summer, one of the air conditioners (nope, no central air) kicks it and throws up all over the carpet. This year, it was the worst ever. Half of the library was literally soaked. Most of the carpet is dry now, and the […]

I picked up this quote on LM_Net
“What a school thinks about its library is a measure of what it thinks about education.“

–Harold Howe, former U.S. Commissioner of Education

You finally united Iraq against Israel.

1. No one matters except us.
2. Lebanese “civilians” deserve to die, and we have no problem killing them.
3. Fighting back against us is terrorism and questioning our actions is antisemitism.
4. The Holocaust hurt us, so we’ve decided to make everyone know what it feels like.
And then reality sets in:
1. Israel is the real biggest terrorist […]

From IndyMedia:
“President Bush has committed US forces to aid Israel in any conflict, even if Israel initiates hostilities…
“In his work, “The Art of War”, Sun Tzu observed that all wars are based on deception.”
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I intended to mention this some time ago, but somehow it slipped my mind. A really cool Librarian friend of mine wrote this book called Aurora Borealis. You can read a description and reviews of it by clicking on the aforementioned link.
I read it in one day (couldn’t put it down), and trust […]

According to this article (somewhat dated), unsolicited commercial email once carried the initials UCE. That, however, just didn’t instill in people the awful picture of what UCE actually is. Someone came up with SPAM, and the world (except for those who send it) now detests it and fights it harder than the “war […]

A recent post by sister Baraka got me thinking. She said:
When I look back at 1,400 years of Islamic scholarship, I see the lack of women. A woman can definitely come to the same conclusions as a man, for good or bad, but I can’t help but believe that had we had over a millenia […]

Umm Zahra’s grandmother passed this morning. Please pray for her and her family (especially her mother, whose mother has returned to Allah).