Why bother?

When I find an important library, depository, repository or archive website (almost always academic) with broken or inaccurate links, I often look for the "contact us" link and notify them. Often, that link is broken. Silly me, I keep looking--click, click, sigh, click. (I don't swear.) When someone gets back to me I'm asked, where is this link, I can't find it. I e-mail back. They (usually he) reply that it's not their fault, they are underfunded, or they just have too much to do to add dates to research or clean up broken links, yada, yada.

Now we know why the college kids that invented Google and Facebook are billionaires, and librarians are among the lowest paid civil servants.

A Geezer Rant

Ronald Clark, a blogger who's a few years older than me, lives in Indianapolis and writes Banging the Drum. He wrote "Geezer Rant," and here's part of it.

How did it happen that manly men started replacing a hearty handshake with an embracing hug?

How did it happen that a proud free people began letting the Government completely run their lives?

How did it happen that shapely women are now kicking manly men’s butts in pop media?

How did it happen that even sailors blush when hearing mainstream movie dialog?

How did it happen that modern women have now become the sexual aggressor?

How did it happen that grade and high school students now feel free to cuss-out and physically threaten their teachers in the classroom?

How did it happen that it is now socially acceptable to scorn Christianity?

How did it happen that Governments and people are afraid to criticize Islam?

How did it happen that the New York Times changed from the paper of record to an ideology rag?

How did it happen that people who don’t want to work have now become respectable welfare recipients?

How did it happen that it is socially acceptable and celebrated to have children outside of marriage?

And there's more.