Well, it's time for me to kick that magnificent time-waster Friendster to the curb and update the Rainbow Lives list a little bit. One of the things I love about being a librarian is that often we are asked to evaulate various online databases for potential purchase; one of these that we're looking at until the end of the month is the ProQuest Historical Newspapers database. Here's one little historical gem from their archive: the writer rants about how coddling the handicapped can turn them gay (source: Los Angeles Times, June 6th, 1917, p. 14)