Category Archives: animals

  1. Lynchings, Black Holes, and Horny Toads

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    May 3, 2023 by libroshombre

                There’s been some interesting overlapping on my radar that involve lynching, black holes, horny toads, and the frightening rise …
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    Category: animals, Black history, book banning, books, censorship, crime, libraries and librarians, library school, public libraries, school librarians, school libraries | Tags: , , , ,

  2. Lynching, Black Holes, and Horny Toads

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    April 18, 2023 by libroshombre

    There’s been some interesting overlapping on my radar that involve lynching, black holes, horny toads, and the frightening rise in …
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    Category: animals, banned books, book banning, books, libraries, library school, pubic libraries, race, racism | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  3. Griffonage, Chins, and Satchmo

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    July 9, 2022 by libroshombre

       There’s plenty that you and I don’t know.  As expressed by Donald Rumsfeld in his typically tortured manner, “As …
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    Category: anatomy, animals, races, racism, spelling, vowells, word origins, words, writing | Tags: , , , , , , ,

  4. Nanoparticles, Hamdogs, and Freaking Out

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    May 13, 2022 by libroshombre

                Our family’s Kentucky Derby brunch turned out to be fertile ground for intellectual speculation, ranging from sandwiches to parasocial …
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    Category: animals, food, polution, psychology, relationships, social science, sports | Tags: , , , , ,

  5. Memories, Rats, and Hair Books

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    January 16, 2022 by libroshombre

    P.G. Wodehouse, the greatest humor writer of the twentieth century, claimed that “Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap …
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    Category: ancient history, animals, books, children's books, history, libraries, library collections, memory | Tags: , , , , , , , ,

  6. Pop-Tarts, Frogs, and the Alamo

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    November 6, 2021 by libroshombre

                “Woman Sues Kellogg Over Lack of Strawberries in Strawberry Pop-Tarts,” a recent Washington Post article, got me considering how …
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    Category: animals, battles, books, education, grammar, libraries, public libraries, sayings | Tags: , , ,

  7. Hissies, Conniptions, and Negligees

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    March 24, 2020 by libroshombre

    “Words, like nature, half reveal and half conceal the soul within,” according to Ralph Waldo Emerson.  That’s true enough, but, …
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    Category: animals, children, education, genius, Uncategorized | Tags: , , ,

  8. Meadows of Gold, House of Wisdom, and Lovelorn Rhinos

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    November 19, 2019 by libroshombre

    LIBRARIAN COLUMN Contact Greg Hill, 479-4344                                                                          Oct. 31, 2019 My car’s a mini-bookmobile carrying a variety of books to match …
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    Category: animals, bookmobiles, maps, travel, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , ,

  9. Russian Reticence, Doggie Brains, and the Dewey Decimal System

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    September 14, 2016 by libroshombre

      The Russian government could use some lessons in polite communications. Beside their proclivity for hacking, leaking, and mendaciousness, they’re …
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    Category: animals, brain, dogs, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , ,

  10. Cheeks, Civility, and Locofocos

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    March 21, 2016 by libroshombre

      Cats and dogs are very different creatures, yet, with some exceptions, they can get along together civilly, as evidenced …
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    Category: animals, civility, libraries, library history, politics, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , , ,

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