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Radical action was needed to slow the murder rate in the capital, which is growing rapidly due to drug mafia violence. No doubt there will be moans from the £95,000 a year lay race advisors, who like the old Soviet political commissars, have to be consulted before these sorts of actions can be [...]

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By Francisco J. Gil-White (fjgil@psych.upenn.edu ; http://www.psych.upenn.edu/~fjgil/)
Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Pennsylvania.
Short Abstract: ëMemeticsí suffers from conceptual confusion and not enough empirical work. This paper attempts to attenuate the former problem by resolving the conceptual controversies. I criticize the overly literal insistenceóby both critics and advocatesóon the genetic analogy, which asks us to think [...]

Librarians with personal commitment, a “code,” do not play follow the leader. They do not take orders as hacks, apologists, or nitpickers. Their responsibility is not to any power structure at all, but to the patron and to the profession. True professionalism implies evolution, if not revolution;
- Celeste West [via Librarian.net]