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I remember, when I was a teenager, going to the public library and getting really frustrated if they didn't have the books I needed so I could complete the project on which I had been procrastinating. I started using the university library, occasionally, for major projects starting in my freshman year - and I'm still as infatuated with UNC Chapel Hill's library as I was then.

So, it's not that I don't understand.

But if we don't have the book you need for the project that's due Monday, whose fault is that really?

It's Saturday afternoon, and I'm bored at work.

This story is just too good, if by 'good' you mean 'too awful to be hilarious, actually':

A U.S. Congressional Candidate from Michigan, Tony Zirkle, is being criticized for giving a speech at the meeting of a certain controversial organization. He responded to the criticism that he "didn't know enough about the group to either favor it or oppose it" and "this is just a great opportunity for me to witness."

This group, which he knew so little about, was the National Socialist Workers Party.

I can believe that someone would know so little of history as to not recognize the import of that name, but you'd think the swastikas and the glittery "Happy Birthday Hitler" banner would have clued him in.

The sad thing is, he seems to be playing both sides of "I'm too stupid to know a nazi group when I see one" and "Yeah, actually, I AM a horrible racist," as his web site indicates:

I've been getting a flood of e-mails and phone calls, some of which include death threats, about my attempt to raise awareness of how the great porn dragon inspires Jews into pornography and prostitution and then, like the snake he is, turns the public against the Jews.

I apologize for being flippant, but I have the sudden urge to do a D&D game in which the players fight a Great Porn Dragon.