Happy New Year!
This month has been a real bitch for me in every way… And in many ways a fitting end to the decade of suck. May better days lie ahead for us all.

This month has been a real bitch for me in every way… And in many ways a fitting end to the decade of suck. May better days lie ahead for us all.
~ by Woeful on December 31, 2009.
Posted in @ the Library, library
I know a few librarians like this...
When you are growing up, there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully—the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equalizer.
- Keith Richards
I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: ‘O Lord, make my enemies ridiculous.’ And God granted it.
- Voltaire
Despite the meek, shush-shushing stereotype, librarians are largely a freedom-upholding, risk-taking group. In the name of the First Amendment and anti-censorship, they have championed the causes of provocative writers and spoken out against banned and challenged books.
- Writer Linton Weeks, Washington Post
I really didn't realize the librarians were, you know, such a dangerous group. ... You think they're just sitting at the desk, all quiet and everything. They're like plotting the revolution, man. I wouldn't mess with them.
- Michael Moore
Those who burn books today will burn people tomorrow.
- Anonymous witness, Nazi bonfire 1933
First they came for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Social Democrats, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Social Democrat. Then they came for the Trade Unionists, and I didn’t speak up, because I wasn’t a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew, Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.
- Pastor Martin Neimoller
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
- John F. Kennedy
They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
- Benjamin Franklin
A constitution of government, once changed from freedom, can never be restored; liberty once lost, is lost forever.
- John Adams
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Unfortunately, the decade won’t end for another year. However, 2010 will be better. At the very least, you have the Winter Olympics to look forward to. Hockey…luge…figure skating…good times.
Heather said this on December 31, 2009 at 8:12 am |
The English seem to have decided on the Naughties or even the Naughty Aughties, to describe this decade. Sounds very English, but too cute for me. I like yours better: the Decade of Suck.
Cheers and Happy New Year! -Philo
Phil O'Brien said this on December 31, 2009 at 11:49 am |
Whoa……woeful…….
May 2010 be much better for you, Hunny Bunny!
I have this thing I do…..on a calendar I write down 3-5 things I am grateful for every night before I sleep….it helps to alter my skewed attitude…honestly!
Auntie Nanuuq said this on December 31, 2009 at 1:15 pm |
Oh, yeah….that play on words was intentional!
Auntie Nanuuq said this on December 31, 2009 at 1:15 pm |
Did you notice that the drift of the snow changes direction as you move the cursor left to right & right to left (but never upwards) around the page?
Auntie Nanuuq said this on December 31, 2009 at 2:35 pm |
From your keyboard to God’s screen. Happy New Year Woe.
max said this on December 31, 2009 at 6:21 pm |
And a very happy new year to you from the nurse xx
nursemyra said this on January 2, 2010 at 4:42 pm |
And a happy new year to you, too!
kevin said this on January 5, 2010 at 4:54 pm |
Happy New Year to my favourite librarian blogger!
Agatha said this on January 7, 2010 at 7:30 pm |
I also like that phrase, Woeful, the ‘decade of suck’, sounds better and realer than the Zero decade. Happy new year to you!
angstylibrarian said this on January 8, 2010 at 10:22 pm |
Happy New Year & God Bless Us Every One!
Woeful said this on January 10, 2010 at 1:50 pm |