Reading Roundup

Back at work. Worked hard all day. Listening to Carmina Burana right now. Not tired of it yet. Saw that it will be performed in Portland by the Oregon Symphony. I'm thinking about getting tickets and taking a trip up there to see it. But after checking the Website, looks like the tickets are only available to various subscriber packages. Maybe I'll have to give the box office a call to see if there are any exceptions.

Iran & Iraq

Build up to an Iran conflict Wes Clark Daily Kos: Is War with Iran Inevitable?

Powerful Women and how society deals with them....Or wait, how they deal with society....

What was so great about Catherine? By Laura Miller Feb. 13, 2007 Salon.com Books. This review makes me want to read the book, but I suspect the reviewer makes it more interesting than the book reads. I'll have to see. Nice bit on our (and all?) culture's perceptions and discomfort with successful, powerful women.

A ‘Rebellious Daughter’ to Lead Harvard

Eco-Madness

I clean green but the dishes don't gleam! I use nonpolluting products wherever I can -- but this brand-name commercial stuff really makes plates and glasses sparkle! By Cary Tennis Feb. 13, 2007 Salon.com Life. O God, this could be me. Hilarious. Cary made me laugh tonight. Oh we are silly, but I have to admit, I've noticed the same thing with my dishwashing eco-tablets. At some point I'll get to all the excellent (I'm sure) articles linked at the bottom of his column.

Science and Health

Surgeon Transplants Ovary Into Woman What a wonderful development!!! Maybe this will someday allow women who want to have a career to have children later in life - safely and with less infertility.

Male Sweat Can Boost Arousal in Women Well, this one is something I've known for years, and many other folks have suspected - probably since relations between men and women began. I guess if you needed the proof of science, well, here it is. I think the sweat aspect of it is just for kicks, the "substance" is more like the pheromones we all have and exude. (But then, does exude sound nastier than sweat?) Not sure on that one. (Oh, and when do they find the pheromones produced by women?)

A kind of modern day book-burning

EPA Libraries: Where Do They Stand Now? A fairly dispassionate overview of the EPA library situation, with lots of links. News of this has made me want to scream ever since the news first broke. This is similar to the sacking of the Iraq museums and libraries, only we did it here at home. What crimes this administration has committed via mis-management and waste is hard for me to fathom. This has set environmental researchers and litigators back years, but they don't know it yet - most have no clue what this means to them and don't really understand why they should care. Maybe not even when a case hinges on getting access to a document and they can't because the documents don't exist anymore. Much of the collection has already been destroyed and in some cases, the only existing copies have been lost. Heartbreaking. This is what happens when you put partisan hacks in charge of our historical and intellectual heritage.

And for a little light librarian humor

March of the Librarians