The Case of the Missing Magazines

Our library has a number of free magazines we give out to the public. Among these is one devoted to the local gay scene called Q. Last week we noted that our big stack of 30 plus copies of Q were missing. Typically we have very few of this magazine taken and I highly doubt that 30 something gay people came in individually to pick up a copy. We suspect that someone not very happy that we were carrying this magazine hauled them all off.

A few days ago scattered all over the table were copies of a Creationist Christian apologetic magazine. Looking inside one of those magazines I found that you can plan your own "creation vacation" among other articles. Now I'm wondering if the same person who took our Q magazines put out the Christian magazines.

It seems that some people are all for freedom of speech when it is their speech that is heard.

Spoiling Easter

I was having a four year old girl color some Easter die-cuts for me today that I was going to put up in the children's area. While she was coloring them I asked her: "So are you looking forward to the Easter bunny coming to your house?" The little girl turned to me and looked me straight in the eye and said "There is no Easter Bunny." I was surprised that someone her age would know that this great big bunny was just a great big lie. So I asked: "How did you hear about that?" She replied "My older brothers told me."

Those pesky older siblings, always ruining childhood fantasies like Santa Claus and the Easter Bunny. I was talking to one coworker and she said her older siblings told her to fake believing in Santa Claus so they would all get more presents from the Kris Kringle. That is probably a better tactic for these siblings than spoiling the secret. I hope this little girl still gets her Easter candy from the "fake" Easter Bunny.