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When people look at me today, they see a 6'5" giant of a man.  Confident, strong, and the life of the party. When I was a kid, that wasn't so much the case.  Heck, when I was a kid, I got beaten up all the time (which was probably why I eventually got into law). I remember this one group.  They thought they were the cock of the walk and would shake kids down for their lunch money. No kid dared to tattle on them because, as we learn from television and government in general, people who tattle end up wearing cement shoes.  So, the rein of terror continued.   One day, I was playing marbles with a friend and this group of thugs came over and started pushing him around. Honestly, I don't know what came over me because I stepped my 60 pound, 4 foot nothing frame between the bully and my friend and told them to push off .   You'd have thought an atomic bomb went off because the entire playground froze.   Kids hundreds of yards away felt a disturban...

In today's news is a post about a student hitting another student with a chair in a class room .  What is interesting is that earlier today, I had a couple come into the library.  Seems they have a kid in elementary school who came home most every day with bruises.  Of course, school "administrators" kept saying nothing was wrong and that their kid was just accident prone. Seems that argument fell out the window when, two days prior, they got a call from the school that their kid was being taken to the hospital.  They learned, at the hospital, that all those bruises had been caused by a kid who had taken to beating their kid because it was "fun."  Their kid was now in the hospital with a concussion, among other things. Parents are frothing at the mouth and are seeking vengeance against school district.  Who can blame them?  I know I'd be pissed seven ways from Sunday if anyone took to beating on my kid.  And what about the school "administ...

Many moons ago when I was young(er), I loved to watch Romper Room .  OK, I liked to watch Wonderrama , too, and I just knew I could win those great prizes if only my folks would take me to be on the show.  Never happened.  Anyway, there was this one part on Romper Room where the lady whips out this mirror that was magic.  Well, it had to be magic because when she looked in it it got all funky swirly and then it went clear and doggone it if she couldn't see kids from all over the world and actually talk to them.  Dang but she must have been a Librarian.  I mean she wouldn't just say their name but she'd tell them stuff that they should (and shouldn't) be doing.  Yep, she must have been a Librarian because she knew so much. The thing is I can really relate to the woman on Romper Room because I know lots of stuff, too.  As an omnipresent Law Librarian, I, too, know what you need and how to help you (or when to back off).  In fact, Libr...