The Clerk Manifesto

There's always a Problem Patron Number One at any given time at my library. The current one is an early middle-aged African Ameri...

At my job, and especially with my bosses, there are certain things that it would be unwise and impossible to have honest conversations...

Hey Conservative Democrat, I have a theory. It's about you. You think that the Right will keep pushing further and further a...

Oh if I were king of the library! I have mused on this a few times in the course of this blog. Eight times to be precise, and you c...

For my PHD dissertation I decided to comprehensively catalog the male lead character types of the Romance Novel Genre. This study was...

Hey Moderate Democrat, Did you ever notice how when you fight with the Right you are even tempered, conciliatory, scrupulous, re...

Hey Republican, You probably think I'm going to make fun of you, that your very lack of a sense of humor about yourself makes y...

I read things, searchingly, on the Internet, until finally I find this blog and realize it was what I was looking for all along. But b...

Energy independence. Green energy. Living green. In these days of environmental degradation, global warming, and the wholesale destru...

I have written here for five years now, plus a little. I have spent 59 total days in Rome. I have eaten taco salad every day now for ...

I have stumbled upon a relatively inexpensive way to double the value of your home. Hear me out on this one. It will work. But it has...

To be honest I don't pay much attention to all this global climate change stuff. Not only is it depressing, but having no descenda...

I recently posted something I wrote here about libraries onto a relevant page on the Internet. I thought it would perhaps be of interes...

Just when you think everything is okay at the library you work at, that is, that no one does much in the way of constructive labor, b...

He fights for goodness and justice using his amazing ability to travel through time. He could just play the stock market and wallow ...

Just this once, in one of these library stories, let's start with the punchline: "I don't know how anything gets done a...

  A man came to me at the front desk of the library. "I just thought you should know," He began. "Someone lit a fire ...

Welcome to yet another thrilling adventure of: Time Traveler Man! He's the superhero who can travel through up to 24 hou...

Because the public library is a beloved government institution, socialist, egalitarian, intellectual, democratic, and beautiful, I ha...

Welcome to another thrilling adventure of: Time Traveler Man! He's the superhero who can travel through up to 24 hou...