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On Banned Book Week

By On September 28, 2010 · 9 Comments · In Musings

It’s Banned Book Week again, when we give a hard look at censorship and what it does, and what it costs us.

What interests me this year about censorship is we all have our threshold of appropriate. I look at some books, banned because of language or sexuality (homo or hetero) or witchcraft [...]

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Banned Books Week

By On September 29, 2009 · 8 Comments · In Musings, News

Happy Banned Books Week! This week is the time when we celebrate the freedom to read what we like, a right that we have embedded in our Bill of Rights.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the [...]

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