Wooosh!!

I can't believe that 2005 went past without a post from us! I guess we have been busy engaging in our Radical Militant Librarian training!!!
Though understandably, we have been slowly going underground due to the announcement of far-reaching domestic surveillance by the U.S. Government...(oh honey, do you really need me to link you to a news byte about it??).
Pretty soon you Yeoman of the pedestrian class will have to learn a secret handshake in order to ask and check out the Encylopedia Britannica from your public library...assuming your public library has it....or is even open any longer.
These are strange times. We have also lost some of the freedom fighters from decades past. They were the guardians of the things we have become accustomed to and taken advantage of to the point we may have forgotten how important they really are....blogging like this is an example.
Nature abhors a vacuum, however and as I advised a dear friend of mine:

When our hero dies and leaves us behind, we have no choice but to rise up from the wellspring of sorrow and lift the torch that they carried; step onto the path they walked and begin to continue their march. We must not ever forget the sacrifices of those who fought for everything we take for granted now. We do have choices, but the logical one is to fight and not flee.

Rise up my sister. It is a cold and lonely dawn, but we will not be alone in body or spirit.

I hope you too, oh brothers and sisters of Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton and Franklin, find your path, lift your torch and enlighten the way before you.