http://www.solis.lib.or.us/

Last week, fifteen libraries in Jefferson county in Oregon closed.

Except for the Internet, I have heard nothing about this on television or radio.

This is what I've heard:

1. Larry Birkhead is a dad.
2. Marcia Cross is the mother of twins.
3. Rosie O'Donnell should be fired from The View.
4. And two words: Don Imus

So here's what I want to know:

Where's the outrage?

Why aren't people ticked about this?

I've visited Oregon several times and I love the state. If I could find a job, I would leave California for Oregon. But to live in a town without a library? No way.

I worked for my local library system for ten years. Most of the time I loved my job. I stopped loving my job when politics played a part in it.

Our county has defeated several times measures that would've helped with keeping the library open longer, more money for books, jobs, etc. It doesn't go through because people don't want to pay for "entertainment."

Um, yeah. A kid wanting to do a report on the Hopi Indians? Entertainment.

A senior citizen reading his westerns (which is what my grandfather did for years) Just shake your finger in his face and say "Old man, I'm not paying for your entertainment!"

Now I know that people are reading this and thinking "But Pleasant Hill Girl! What about the Internet?" Well guess what folks: Not every person has a computer at home. Sometimes a library is the only chance they get to access internet or get information for a project.

I left my job because I was tired of the politics, tired of the fact that it felt like I was never going to get a full time job. I was just plain out tired.

Now in my county, there are self-check machines everywhere. I'm not going to lie, I use them. But where is the human interaction?

I don't get it. I don't get the fact that this happened. I don't get the fact that we have a ex-librarian for a First Lady and this happened.

Okay, rant over. Maybe Phoebe Snow and Linda Ronstandt can make me feel better: