On 9/13/2024 at 9:02 AM, llucie said:

Yes sorry, i just saw that. Aparently it belongs to someone called William Ross Little, so the Madison name may be an entire coincidence.

Yeah. It sounds like the Duggars have a Sugar Daddy in him. I guess he's based in Louisiana but is a Sugar Daddy for Duggar types all over the country.

Gross. Also: dude in the pic seems to be needing all of his braincells to take a selfie.

On 9/6/2024 at 8:28 PM, libgirl2 said:

I do Interlibrary Loan and get materials from all over the country. It is really neat to see what people like to read or watch. The only thing we don't do is get textbooks. It was always a challenge getting them back, sometimes we didn't. In 2010, a patron kept one for a whole semester, returned it and only had to pay a $5 fee. Meanwhile, the library billed us. I heard the patron say how he could keep textbooks as long as he wanted and only pay the $5 fee! WE stopped right after that. 

Hello there from another library worker! I'm in what is technically a "regional" library system (i.e. not in a major city, even though we're quite close to one) and one of my favourite things is multicultural bulk loans for immigrant families - we can get a box of 20 books at a time sent for free from the state library, in whatever foreign language the patron speaks. It's so cool seeing how famous titles translate or learning the dutch word for unicorn (eenhorn) from a picture book.

I don't work in acquisitions but usually they're pretty good with requests as long as the title is quite recent.

5 hours ago, Joyster said:

Initial obituary for David Baker: Baker obituary.

So far the comments are kind. I hope they stay that way for the family’s sake. I found it odd that they wrote he died at the hospital. I mean he did, but I would have left that out.

I think they're hoping that it will imply "of illness", and stop questions. Pretty sure that's closing the barn door about 48 hours too late, although it will undoubtedly provide some entertainment to future genealogists as they research their family history.

Side story: I read a story in a newspaper here a couple of decades ago about someone who was looking into their family history. She'd always known that the circumstances of her grandfather's death were a family secret that was never discussed, but had never known why. She thought she'd solved the mystery when she got a copy of his death certificate, which had his place of death as Pentridge (high security prison). Then of course she was curious as to what terrible thing he'd done to be in Pentridge... and discovered that he was actually a highly regarded citizen with no criminal record who was in the prison doing good work with prisoners when he had the misfortune to have a fatal heart attack. The family decided that explaining all this was too complicated, hence the dark secret which had been kept for over 60 years before she found out!

This aged like milk - Baker interviewing David Hyles, both of them defending Jack Hyles:

Baker's last interview, just 11 days ago:

His Fundamentalist Baptist Podcast YouTube videos are still up:

https://www.youtube.com/@davidbaker8430/videos