Today we have become a deep, dark, and disgusting chapter in world history. Those responsible should be ashamed and I hope that every single one is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. You now have blood- literally – on your hands. Murder and treason have strict consequences....
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Daily Quote: “We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.”
Banned Books Awareness: The Politics of State-Sponsored Censorship
What is a book burner to do when that pesky United States’ Constitution gets in the way of their censorship attempts? Get laws passed that circumvent them, of course. This week is a look at some of the legislation recently enacted to take away the freedoms granted to citizens...
Banned Books Awareness: Crossing the Free Speech Line
Spend enough time online and you’ll discover that trolls lurk outside of fairy tales and Lower Michigan. There comes a time, though, when some of these internet trolls don’t just cross the line of appropriateness or maturity, they jump it waving a middle finger at the world. For anyone...
Banned Books Awareness: “Naked Lunch”
Naked Lunch, by William S. Burroughs, was originally published in 1959 and is included in Time magazine’s “100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005”. Burroughs stated that the chapters, or “routines” as he calls them- are a collection of loosely-connected vignettes and intended to be read in any...
Banned Books Awareness: “Tropic of Cancer”
Henry Miller is one of the most important literary figures in American history, but most people don’t even know his name. His was a true underdog story: a creative and challenging author who influenced such literary and pop culture icons as Jack Kerouac, Norman Mailer, Phillip Roth, Paul Theroux,...
Banned Books Awareness: “Bare-Faced Messiah”
Scientologists have kept a book out of American stores for 27-years because it alleges that L. Ron Hubbard was a racist and a fantasist with a penchant for bizarre sexual rituals; but it is finally getting published. Written by British journalist Russell Miller, it was finished the year after...
Banned Books Awareness: “The Hindus: An Alternative History”
Academics, writers, and lawyers have voiced strong opposition to the withdrawal of American scholar Wendy Doniger’s book, The Hindus: An Alternative History, following a settlement between the publisher Penguin, a division of Random House, and a complainant group, Shiksha Bachao Andolan Samiti. Under the settlement, all copies of the...
A Morning Murder
We awoke to yet another gruesome murder scene today. The suspect, whom the media has dubbed “Squeaky” because of her trademark sadistic removal of the plastic noise makers from inside the victims, has struck several times in the last month; but we can report that the serial stuffed animal...
Banned Books Awareness: Censorship at Guantánamo Bay (Part 2)
Aside from the complete lack of due process and blatant disregard for religious liberty, human rights and amnesty groups continue to be baffled by the random and apparently arbitrary reasoning behind what publications are and are not allowed to be read by detainees within the walls of the United...