Archive for the 'banned' Category
other people think Bill C-10 sucks too
March 3rd, 2008WRBB - “I’ve been watching the numbers of the Facebook group Keep your censoring hands off Canadian film and TV! No to Bill C-10! grow exponentially over the weekend.”
2 Guys and a Chick Set Off Loudoun Library Dispute
February 16th, 2008More on human filtering
Read a Banned Book
February 14th, 2008Only Crook in Town - “In my experience, I’m more likely to read a book that’s been challenged or banned.”
More on Human Filtering
December 1st, 2007From this piece, comes the strangest comment on human filtering I have read in a while:
”I just want kids to enjoy their innocence and their time of growing up,” Jeff Issa said, explaining his persistence. ”Let them be kids
and not worry about homosexuality, race, religion. Just let them live freely as kids.”
Let your [...]
More on Human Filtering
December 1st, 2007One parent complains…
Buy This Banned Book
November 28th, 2007This makes sense.
Love this quote - “Even though the Higher Power of Lucky had won several literary awards, I didn’t go looking for a copy until the there was a big fuss about the word scrotum.”
New Book on Book Banning
November 26th, 2007More here and an article about it here.
Conroy on the Banners
November 11th, 2007John Raby - “Conroy slams those who would ban his works as “idiots.”
More on Pat Conroy and Human Filtering
November 8th, 2007John Raby - “Graphic depictions of violence, suicide and sexual assault in two Pat Conroy books are at the heart of a First Amendment debate that is pitting offended parents against high school students who object to being told what they can’t read.”
A Different Type of Book Banning
October 11th, 2007Hilary White - “Catholic parents of students at a Catholic colleague in Minneapolis are outraged that their children will be forced to read the sexually explicit and anti-Christian novel, A Handmaid’s Tale by Canadian author and far-left feminist Margaret Atwood. The English Department’s faculty at the University of St. Thomas, in St. Paul, Minneapolis, has [...]
The Last of the Banned Book Week Posts
October 8th, 2007Lichen Rancourt - “Maybe we need a banned patrons week.”
Hee Hee.
Lots of great pics on the Dover Public Library blog.
Reading is Sexy
October 4th, 2007Christina Hernandez - “Cheryl Curry, wearing a navy T-shirt with the words “reading is sexy” across the chest, stood behind a lectern at Hofstra University yesterday and read from “Brave New World,” the novel by Aldous Huxley.”
Locating Banners
September 29th, 2007Carlin Romano - “There, in the mirror - a book banner!”
It’s All Relative
September 27th, 2007A parent’s reasoning for wanting to ban a book - “The teenagers in the book show such a lack of moral integrity,”
Filthy Shakespeare
September 25th, 2007Joseph B. Frazier - “In high school, when Miss Grundy rubbed your adolescent nose in Shakespeare, she was perhaps unaware that the Bard of Avon had ye pottye mouthe.”
Just in time for Banned Books Week.
One Complaint?
September 25th, 2007Karen Nelson - “The National Coalition Against Censorship is watching with interest the Jackson-George Regional Library System’s decision to temporarily pull a best-selling novel from its shelves. System Director Michael Hamlett made the call in August based on the complaint of one patron at the Ocean Springs branch of the library system who called the [...]
If You Were a Banner…
September 23rd, 2007Which book would you ban?
I guess a different question to ask would be: if you could ban a book, would you?
Banned Books
September 23rd, 2007Tom Blackburn - “There’s nothing like a proposed book-banning to reassure readers that someone still cares.”
More on Human Filtering - The Bad Kind
September 20th, 2007Carlos Sadovi - “After hearing from the district’s lawyers, the principal sent a letter to parents Monday informing them that the book would remain on the required reading list. He warned parents that if they directed their children not to read the book, it could “have a significant negative effect on the final course grade.”
The [...]
Banned Books Theatre
September 19th, 2007Diane Wright - “Book-It, which turns classic and contemporary literature into theater, performs “Danger Books” at 7 p.m. Oct. 2 at the Everett Public Library. Subtitled “A Celebration of Intellectual Freedom,” it will be a staged reading from classics and contemporary books that have been banned, censored or challenged in the United States.”
Read a Banned Book Today
September 16th, 2007AP - “Not all penguin stories are equal in the public’s mind.”
On Book Banning
September 3rd, 2007Tom Blackburn - “What the book challengers overlook is that any child who is reading is not the kind of child who is likely to be hurt by a book. It’s children who don’t read who can be damaged by all kinds of sinister outside influences.”
So Much For Innocent Until Proven Guilty
August 31st, 2007Karen Nelson - “The Jackson-George Regional Library system has pulled a best-selling book by comedian Jim Norton from the shelves of its branches until the library director completes a review of its contents.”
No Books For You
July 10th, 2007Sun Sentinel: “Laura Lopez wants dozens of books removed from two Palm Beach County high school libraries because the contents address homosexuality, abortion, and atheism.”