Just about anything, in any format, can get censored or banned these days- books, television, movies, art, and music, to name a few. Now we can add classic nursery rhymes to the list of “offensive” material. The world, it seems, has completely lost its sense of reason and logic....
Ambrose Bierce pondered one day, “Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.” “Ah,” said Lewis Carroll, “Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn’t, it...
Today, Racheal and I passed by an antique dealer in a small farming community and decided to stop in. I’m glad we did, because we found a copy of Rudyard Kipling’s “The Phantom ‘Rickshaw and other Eerie Tales”, a collection of short stories published in 1888. It was sitting...
The Irish Censorship of Publications Board was established in 1929 by the newly-formed Irish Free State (boy, isn’t that a contradiction in terms) to examine and restrict ‘obscene’ publications. Liam O’Flaherty’s The House of Gold had coincidentally been released that same year and enjoyed a brief time in print...
Texas-born Tomás Rivera’s coming-of-age story of a Mexican boy’s life in a migrant family in the 1940s and 1950s, with its themes of family life and tensions, is apparently too much for the parents of a Clarke County seventh-grader and they want the book banned. They demanded that the...
Most people have either had the experience or been witness to the self-censorship that comes from the fear of causing offense to someone; some others may feel that over-protectiveness denies people the opportunity to decide for themselves where the moral line is when it comes to artful expression. Most...
Does the mind have the power to heal itself from fever-induced delusions or can the possibility exist that angelic forces can cure the sick through their singing? I ponder this question in this month’s peering Across the Great Divide. Read On and Share the Knowledge: http://paganpages.org/content/2013/06/across-the-great-divide-41/
Over Memorial Day weekend I visited Chicago for the first time and had a lot of fun. My girlfriend and I stayed with a friend and cataloged some of our adventures. Witness Chicago as seen through the eyes of a Wolf.