MAY 29, 2012 2:13PM

May's Nonfiction Book Order

May’s Adult Nonfiction order is a combination of Patron Requests, New York Times Bestsellers, Things discovered while doing displays and assisting Patrons, a few Replacements and a bunch of stuff I think our Patrons will find interesting.
Patron Requests for May are: McGee
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MAY 28, 2012 5:44PM

Why My Father Stopped Cussing

            I loved that tricycle. it was blue, my favorite color, with white pinstripes on the fenders. It was shiny and big, that Cadillac of tricycles.

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MAY 25, 2012 5:21PM

Curt Schilling Drops the Ball

            In 2006, baseball player Curt Schilling, Red Sox hero of the 2004 World Series and a fan of online role playing games, founded a video gaming company he named “Green Monster Games, LLC,” reportedly after the left-fiel
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MAY 24, 2012 4:47PM

Advice From An Indiana Congressman; 1931

            In the wake of the Facebook IPO smelling fishier by the day, I ran across an article printed on the front page of the January 21, 1931 edition of the Spencer Evening World newspaper that seems strangely current for our times.
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MAY 23, 2012 5:18PM

Like an Egg on Top of Eight Feet of Manure

            The proponents of deregulation have argued, successfully, that industries should be allowed to police themselves because no industry wants to commit suicide by putting out a bad product. They argue that it is in a company’s bes
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MAY 22, 2012 4:41PM

Joe Mihalic Pays Off His Student Loans

            Joe Mihalic made Internet headlines this week by offering to share his secrets to how he paid off $90,000 in student loan debt in just seven months.
            First and forem/
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MAY 21, 2012 12:28PM

John Gets Arrested

            “John got arrested,” I heard from somewhere in the twilight realm sometime after Saturday night had slipped into Sunday morning; and Max asking  if there had been a Klan rally recently, but I was asleep and the b/
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MAY 18, 2012 5:27PM

Before Will and Grace

            Recently, Vice President Joe Biden credited the sitcom Will and Grace for helping create an atmosphere of greater acceptance for Gay people.
 
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MAY 17, 2012 4:31PM

Life and Death in Louisville, Kentucky

            There is an interesting crime story coming out of Louisville, Kentucky.
            Kendra Wilson of St. Matthews, Kentucky, a suburb located about eight miles east of Louis/
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MAY 16, 2012 5:48PM

When Is a Child Not a Child in Indiana

           Two stories that recently shared space in the Bloomington Herald Times newspaper caught me eye because of their strange juxtaposition.
            The first story was about how two M/
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MAY 15, 2012 4:27PM

What Puritans Did to My Uncle

            When conversation turns to Religious Freedom and Colonial America, I sometimes think not enough attention is paid to the political and religious climate happening in Great Britain which would have repercussions that linger to this
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MAY 14, 2012 3:16PM

Buying Marijuana for Mother

            This past Sunday, the Bloomington (IN) Herald Times newspaper ran a syndicated column by Dr. Barton Goldsmith, Ph.D on the Relationships page. Sandwiched between Miss Manners, Dear Abby and a photograph of Becky Jackson of Lewist/
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MAY 11, 2012 12:16PM

Joe Sarborough's Revisionist Reality

            On Morning Joe this morning, Joe Scarborough made a rather startling claim. Mr. Scarborough remarked that he had gone to bed on Tuesday a Conservative and had woken up a Progressive. This change wasn’t brought about by a st
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MAY 10, 2012 11:45AM

No Girls Allowed, 1878

            The question facing Indiana, and specifically Bloomington, Indiana, as reported in the January 3, 1878 edition of The Owen County Journal was Can a Woman be Commissioned as a County Officer?

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MAY 9, 2012 11:16AM

Rememberances of Things Past: Roasted Doves

             Two items that appeared in the March 14, 1878 edition of the Owen County Journal as part of a column of news items out of nearby Vincennes, Indiana seem as if they could be related. Under the date March 12 and headlined:


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MAY 8, 2012 10:18AM

Girls Gone Wild, 1878 Edition

            The following editorial was published in the June 27, 1873 edition of the Owen County Journal. It was originally published in the Philadelphia Times:

Girls on the Streets at Night

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MAY 7, 2012 4:19PM

Remembrances of Things Past: Child Labor

            While reading through 1878 copies of The Owen County Journal last week I ran across the following story which was originally printed in the Pittsburgh Commercial:
Girl Falls into a Vat of Vitriol
     
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MAY 4, 2012 2:46PM

Paul Krugman and Human Nature

            My Husband J. and I were watching a rebroadcast of Tuesday’s The Colbert Report. Stephen’s guest was economist Paul Krugman who was on plugging his new book, End This Depression Now. Toward the end of the interview, Mr/
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MAY 3, 2012 9:15AM

Weird Cat Thing for Today

            The first daylilies we got for the front yard were a white variety called “Sunday Gloves” that I ordered from the Jung Seed Co a few years back and we later went to Debbie's sister-in-law’s daylily farm and boug… Read full post »

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MAY 2, 2012 11:14AM

A Third Fenstruck Brother Found

            Ann Romney wants us to know that Her Man Mitt is one Wild and Crazy Guy. It was, perhaps, an unfortunate choice of words; bringing to mind, as it does, Dan Ackroyd and Steve Martin as the two Czech Brothers, Yortug and Georg F… Read full post »

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MAY 1, 2012 5:03PM

The Wizard of Wall Street Strikes Again

            Mitt Romney, on his Out of Touch With America tour, offered this piece of advice to young people, “Take a shot, go for it. Take a risk, get the education, borrow money if you have to from your parents, start a business.” I… Read full post »

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APRIL 30, 2012 3:48PM

Yard Work

            For the past two years I haven’t been able to plant any flowers in the yard. I almost planted some last Fall, after my father had sent me a hundred dollars for my birthday; a white garden planted in a barren triangle where two p… Read full post »

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APRIL 27, 2012 3:53PM

1970 All Over Again

            I adored my second grade teacher. After the horribleness of Mrs. Riney she was kind and gentle and wise and beautiful. I don’t remember her name but I do remember how I felt about her. Once, as she was walking down the aisl… Read full post »

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APRIL 26, 2012 5:43PM

Today's Good Advice

I promised myself that I would post every weekday but today the laptop just disappeared the post I'd worked on for the past four hours. I don 't have the materials or the time to reconstruct it today so instead I will leave you with the writing advice I've been following:… Read full post »

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APRIL 25, 2012 2:24PM

Be Aware: May Edition

May Is
Stroke Awareness Month
Mental Health Awareness Month
Celiac Awareness Month
ALS Awareness Month
Senior Wellness Awareness Month
Hepatitis Awareness Month
Preeclampsia Awareness Month
Fungal Infection Awareness Month
Neurofibromatosis Month
Lyme Disease Awareness Month
Asthma and Allergy Aw
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