Seen on Facebook today

Okay, sometimes I do stray into politics, and those of you who have been reading for awhile know I am one of those over-educated unabashed liberals. But as far as I can tell, anyone with any sense should worry about Donald Trump, and yet plenty of people in our reality-TV modern 21st-century world seem to be supporting him, which worries me. And whenever I see him compared to Hitler, there's all these people who say 'read your history books, he's no Hitler!' Funny, they should read their history books and see how Hitler got his start. Sigh.

How America Made Donald Trump Unstoppable: He's no ordinary con man. He's way above average — and the American political system is his easiest mark ever

An important, if terrible, document

Landmark Hitler letter on Jews unveiled in New York

Rabbi Marvin Hier of the Simon Wiesenthal Center said that the organisation bought the letter for $150,000 (£90,000) from a private dealer last month.

He said the letter - the existence of which has long been known to scholars - was a critical document from World War II because it "ties Hitler directly to the destruction of the Jews".

"In 1919, when he was a nobody he writes a letter... we need not emotional pogroms, we need legislation, we need a national government that would be ruthless enough, to do what? Total removal of the Jews from society," he told the BBC.

When it was written, Hitler was serving in the German army, and had had a tendency to stir up troops with his anti-Semitic rhetoric.

What does your library say about you?

Two stories caught my eye as I perused my RSS reader. One was a link Jessamyn West pointed me to about Jay Walker's large, personal collection. It's simply breathtaking.

Then there was a link to Know a Man by His Books posted on LISNews by Bibliofuture. It looks at the collection Adolf Hitler had.