The Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library knows a thing or two about the controversy surrounding censorship. Vonnegut has found his novels on the banned books list repeatedly and, last year, writer Corey Michael Dalton spent Banned Books Week imprisoned within a jail cell made out of banned books at the...
Monthly Archives: July 2013
The High Cost of the Freedom of Speech
The freedom of speech comes at a very high price for those few who dare to engage in their constitutional right to use it. For Justin Carter it cost him 5 months of his life- and could still cost him at least 10 more years. Now, a teenage coffee...
Sometimes Limiting Free Speech is Necessary
I know what some of you are thinking: “He’s finally lost his mind. Could Mr. Free Speech be condoning censorship?” You’d be jumping to an incorrect conclusion on both counts. Let me explain. We know that censorship comes in any form and across any medium. Neither is it isolated...
Banned Books Awareness: “The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments”
Growing up in the 1980s many of us had our interest in science inspired and popularized in the television show, MacGyver. Come on, who could forget such classic scenes like when he made a defibrillator out of some candlesticks, a microphone cord, and a rubber mat? Or how about...
Is It Really America’s Birthday? It Depends On Whom You Ask.
Sometimes it’s the weirdest things that stick in my mind over the course of the day. I have to wonder if I just think too much, but I am who I am- what I am- and you all love me for it. Throughout the day I’ve heard many people...
Across the Great Divide: Stump the Ghost Guy
I wouldn’t say that I have a unique point of view among paranormal researchers, but it is a rather rare one. Most people exist huddled at opposite extremes; that is, they either have a passionate belief in paranormal phenomena, convinced by the tiniest shreds of evidence, or they think...