The Boondocks by Aaron McGruder for February 01, 2011
January 31, 2011
February 02, 2011
Transcript:
Huey: So public libraries are gonna be allowed to use filtering software so kids can't look at adult web sites. Caesar: Yeah... Huey: Who would've thought they could still find ways to make public libraries even less appealing to young people. Caesar: It's quite a feat.
Potrzebie almost 14 years ago
I have seen people playing games on those computers.
Nighthawks Premium Member almost 14 years ago
as an old baby boomer, I still remember my first trip to the library, as an eight year old. The magic of being able to take six books out when I left. Any six— the hardest thing was deciding which six……….the young minds of today are pulled in so many directions that a musty old library would not hold the same magic as it did more than 50 years ago to a kid whose only electronic entertainment was 3 channels on a small tv and of course , the radio.
TexTech almost 14 years ago
Ah Nighthawks, you are making me all nostalgic. And I think we had three TV stations fifty years ago. Maybe even four if you counted the fuzzy weak-signaled University station.
I too loved libraries. Maybe not as much for the books as just for the sense of beauty and quiet. I’m not so wild about the modern steel and glass libraries with their aluminum tables. Give me lots of dark wood panelling and heavy wooden tables. Now that’s a library.
Nortley almost 14 years ago
The public library became my hang out over half a century ago - and I still don’t own a tv. No room for one on the bookshelves.
tedcoop almost 14 years ago
Who else remembers how to use the Dewey decimal system?
nighthawks, TexTech – you guys missed out with only 3 channels; in Lost Angeles we had three network stations, four independent VHF stations, and PBS when that came along in the late ’60s (there were other UHF stations as well, but I have no idea what they were). One of the independents was KTLA (channel 5), the first commercial TV station broadcasting west of the Mississippi. Then in the ’80s and ’90s, new networks formed and turned channels 11, 13, and 5 (in that order) into affiliates (and mostly ruining their programming), but poor channel 9 has been pathetic the whole time.