15th
Book banning = ok, Book Burning = not ok
It’s been a crazy couple of weeks what with Palinpalooza going on in the US. The US has spoken and for the most part, everyone is pleased with my VP selection (Sorry Joe!)
In all of this hubbub, I did see one thing that Palin was accused of: book burning. I do not stand by book burning and when I asked her directly in a “mano to womano” face to face closed session meeting, she assured me that she could not remember the last time she attended a book burning.
What happened during her tenure as mayor of Wasilla, AK, was BOOK BANNING - completely different and absolutely necessary practice for libraries. Some books are filled with thoughts and ideas that are dangerous. These books give people big ideas, bad ideas, unnatural thoughts, BAD thoughts, thoughts that just simply shouldn’t ever be thought.
Short list of books I wouldn’t mind seeing banned:
- Ulysses by James Joyce (too difficult to follow)
- Catcher in the Rye (too many F-bombs)
- Lady Chatterly’s Lover (saw it on Showtime late one night - way too sexy)
- 1984 (too close to our reality, too scary)
- Farenheit 451 (dumb title anyway)
- Moby Dick (too alleghorical, if you get what I mean)
- Far Side Galleries #1,#2,and #3 (never understood the appeal, never understood a single one of these dopy cartoons)
