You can’t find “Abraham Lincoln: His Speeches and Writings” at the Pohick Regional Library anymore. Or “The Education of Henry Adams” at Sherwood Regional. Want Emily Dickinson’s “Final Harvest”? Don’t look to the Kingstowne branch.
It’s not that the books are checked out. They’re just gone. No one was reading them, so librarians took them off the shelves and dumped them.
Books on the Chopping Block in Fairfax:
The Works of Aristotle Aristotle (Centreville)
Sexual Politics Kate Millett (Centreville)
The Great Philosophers Karl Jaspers (Centreville)
Carry Me Home Diane McWhorter (Centreville)
The Sound and the Fury William Faulkner (George Mason Regional)
The Mayor of Casterbridge Thomas Hardy (George Mason Regional)
For Whom the Bell Tolls Ernest Hemingway (George Mason Regional)
Desolation Angels Jack Kerouac (George Mason Regional)
Doctor Zhivago Boris Pasternak (George Mason Regional)
Remembrance of Things Past Marcel Proust (George Mason Regional)
Oh Pray My Wings Are Gonna Fit Me Well Maya Angelou (Chantilly Regional)
The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams (Chantilly Regional)
Writings Gertrude Stein (Chantilly Regional)
Jane Eyre Charlotte Bronte (Chantilly Regional)
Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe (Chantilly Regional)
Great Issues in American History Richard Hofstadter (Chantilly Regional)
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Gertrude Stein (Chantilly Regional)
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Pohick Regional)
Babylon Revisited: And other stories F. Scott Fitzgerald (Reston Regional)
To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee (Reston Regional)
The Aeneid Virgil (Sherwood Regional)
The Mill on the Floss George Eliot (Fairfax City Regional)
Geez!!! This makes me want to run out and find Susan Powter and have her yell her signature tagline, “STOP THE INSANITY!!!”
This is just the latest chapter in the “Misadventures of Chairman Connelly.” The Fairfax GOP better be recruiting a solid candidate to take on Connelly – this is their best chance to stop Republicans’ freefall there. There is no reason why the GOP can’t knock him off if they run against Connelly on the issues that matter most to residents where he is especially weak — transportation, land use planning, growth, and all these dumb little things that have happened in the county under his watch. There MUST be a solid Republican citizen of Fairfax County who can step forward and meet this challenge.
Filed under: 2007 Elections, Fairfax Politics, Morons
It seems to me that a major justification for spending all that money on libraries is so that good literature is available to the citizenry. It’s for cultural upliftment. I don’t see the point in spending taxpayer money on pop-culture.
Gary Baise is likely to be running against Gerry Connelly for Chairman.
I don’t usually say this, but the Washington Post has had three good articles pointing out how Fairfax doesn’t follow through on its lip service to linking growth and transporation capacity -
A Dec. 2006 piece shows that traffic reduction promises are not fulfilled because, contrary to surrounding jurisdictions, Fairfax does nothing to enforce it:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/23/AR2006122300702.html
A June 2006 article about unfulfilled commitments on infrastructure improvements is at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/24/AR2006062400780.html?nav=hcmodule
A July 2006 article on unmonitored zoning violations is at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/29/AR2006072900869.html?sub=AR
A coalition of non-partisan citizens groups came up with a 12-point Citizens’ Agenda last fall, and two of those points addressed problems like these -
http://fairfaxcitizensagenda.blogspot.com/2006/10/enforce-developer-promises.html
See http://www.fairfaxcitizensagenda.org/
Cong. Davis and Sen. Devolites-Davis have been very supportive – the rest of the Fairfax GOP needs to embrace this grassroots citizens’ effort as well. These are ordinary residents, many who are independents or Democrats, who are standing up for the notions that local control is best, and that small homeowners have property rights too – they should not be overtaxed to support the infrasture necessary to accomodate Connolly’s contributors.
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