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Hi. I am starting to make San Diego plans. I will be in San Diego for ALA from roughly the 9th through the 14th of January. I would like a free or possibly cheap place to stay. Couches are fine. Let me know if you have some leads.

Special issue of the Juice out this week. In Rory's words "Special issue on the RIAA's lawsuit against a child for file sharing and ALA's legal counsel, the law firm Jenner & Block."

PATRIOT Watch: I am sorry, I do love this country but I don't believe my government. Their memos claim no feds snooping in libraries using the broad power of the USA PATRIOT Act. But what about this survey? Are all those librarians just wrong? We know we can be a little -- what was it Mr Ashcroft? -- hysterical sometimes, but still, that's a big margin for error, don't you think? [ thanks all ]

Or, as the DNC puts it: Librarians: 1, Ashcroft: 0 [ thanks greg ]

PATRIOT Watch: Humor. Would be more funny if it didn't seem so close to true.

Revised Patriot Act Will Make It Illegal To Read Patriot Act WASHINGTON, DC -- President Bush spoke out Monday in support of a revised version of the 2001 USA Patriot Act that would make it illegal to read the USA Patriot Act. "Under current federal law, there are unreasonable obstacles to investigating and prosecuting acts of terrorism, including the public's access to information about how the federal police will investigate and prosecute acts of terrorism," Bush said at a press conference Monday. "For the sake of the American people, I call on Congress to pass this important law prohibiting access to itself." [ thanks kevin ]