About a week ago, I was walking under the Grad Library Stacks and saw a FedEx truck. Then I saw a guy that I swore was Frank Mojolovich (if thats how you spell his name - main day custodian at LHS). Turned out he was just a guy that was way too tan and had gross facial hair with face grease.

Anyway, Erica, I agree with you, completely. I got an email on Tuesday that the flags were to be at half-staff on Wednesday for a soldier killed in some explosion in Iraq. Since Wednesday this month is a day that I spend partially on the seventh floor of a building with a view of the UM Central Campus flag, I was reminded constantly of that. My mind has a reached a point where it can't mourn anymore. I really, really need to make an effort to write more letters to congresspeople.... I just feel so goddamn powerless

But there was some good news floating around my school mailing lists this morning:

Freedom to Read Amendment Passes by 238-187 Vote
*Read about the vote in the news today:*

• New York Times
• Washington Post
• Los Angeles Times
• Baltimore Sun

It is a big victory for librarians and patrons, of course...... but it feels so inconsequential in light of the far larger injustices in the world.

Then you add all the issues that existed before 9/11 - like marijuana. The feds decided that no matter what the local voters decide, medical marijuana is illegal and they'll bust your grandma for trying to alleviate some pain without powerful chemical pain killers while hics set up meth labs all over the midwest. Then again, I recently saw something promissing on a local cable access channel - a former cop talking about LEAP - Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. Its nice to see someone besides users come out against the war on drugs.

At the same time, the family has made a lot of false accusations in the past. The mother accused the father of child abuse in a custody hearing. The mother has been convicted of welfare fraud. The family sued J.C. Penney for something or another. And the kid apparently changed his story during cross examination. In other words, they're not exactly credible folks. Reasonable doubt, you know.

Is Michael Jackson creepy? Sure. Can a grown man have Hustler in his bedroom if he wants to? Sure.

Those are my thoughts on that.

Bull Crap: Everyone KNOWS Jackson is a child molester and should be butt raped by every single prison inmate in whatever prison he SHOULD have went to. What a sick sick man/thing.