Daily Archive: February 27th, 2008
Computer Recycling
(A Note from Dino: Today we received word that Good News is once again recycling our old machines. While I cannot imagine letting a computer ever go, I guess not everyone wants to keep their first computer around their house as a keepsake of a more innocent time. A time when you could play Spyhunter, or any number of other HI RES games. So, if you need to get rid of a machine, this is what we know…)
Businesses and families with computers or related equipment to dispose of can have them recycled professionally at a roundup event in Wausau Friday, …
Librarian Demotions: Not Merely Unfair
What are we to make of the demotion of the 3 librarians at the Marathon County Public Library? Good business? Solid fiscal prudence? Oh, I don’t think so. It’s shoddy and negligent – embarrassing to the whole community. What happened here? Nothing less than an outrageous incursion of a corporate value structure poorly overlayed on top of a public good. It’s unfair and I call rot nihilism. Had people in positions of power acted with greater prudence, this lament would be unnecessary.
The quotes by those sitting atop the hierarchy strike me as doubly wretched in that they render forth two …