Roosevelt Ramblings

Don't get us wrong; here at True Archives we love Theodore Roosevelt. The 26th President of the United States was a prime example of a man who was born rich and yet rose above it. Roosevelt was a native New Yorker, a trait he shares with the current idiot who occupies the Oval Office, but instead of the drooling illiteracy displayed by the Orange Orangutan, Teddy was an intellectual who devoured books and wrote dozens himself.

Perhaps this is what pains us as we point out the current lunacy regarding a planned "Theodore Roosevelt Library" by boosters in the Badlands of North Dakota. At a cost of over 85 million dollars, the people are pushing to build a "library" which will HAVE NO BOOKS AND NO ARCHIVES!!!!! Teddy's papers are already held by Harvard and several other institutions that have real libraries (you know, the kind with books) and the North Dakota promoters seem to feel that having computer kiosks with scanned documents from those repositories will constitute a legitimate claim to be a "library."

A museum with interactive computer exhibits dedicated to Theodore Roosevelt is a fine idea, but we say call it what it is: a MUSEUM! Make no mistake, every attempt to label a bookless institution a "library" cheapens the institution and increases the power of the biblioposers who want a society of mushy-brained cell phone addicts. Teddy himself would call not "Bully" on such a place, but probably would use another term that begins with the same four letters.