Why are they so afraid of the printed word?

 

All Children (And Books) Left Behind

 

Good guys with books vs bad guys with guns

 

Copied from this link done by Lainey Molnar

“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” – Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray

 

Parents react to empty classroom, library shelves as DCPS continues book review

And then there's Dolly Parton

‘Dolly is part of the answer’: Advocates spread Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library free-book program throughout Virginia

Teach them well

 

And speaking of banning books: Here they go.

Tuesday: Texas, MAGAs, Books, and Cats.

 

Banning Books

 

Good grief. Now they are attacking public libraries!

 

‘A For-Profit Company Is Trying to Privatize as Many Public Libraries as They Can’

What libraries can do

Let's talk about hot books in Virginia....

Update: 

Banning, criminalizing, maybe even burning books is back for public schools in Texas, Virginia, elsewhere

Back to the old grind

Tracking Fukushima's contamination to US's Pacific coast

Bill Moyers does his 2014 In Memoriam.  David Barry remembers 2014.

Things that people thought were real but were fake.

Our wonderful 50 states.

Eight books to lead you to enlightenment.

The NYPD has a temper tantrum.

To the moon, Alice!

Humans can cause earthquakes?  Does it count when the entire country eats that second helping of pie after a Thanksgiving dinner?

Beautiful timed photos of a trip in the western US.

The coldest place on earth.

The ultimate Legoland:  Rivendell.

Facts about book lovers.

China's on the Moon and there's damp spots on Mars.

From Books to Art

Book lover problems.  Mine is that I've run out of bookshelves....

Legos and gender identity.

I didn't know Daily Kos was keeping track of weekly accidental gun shootings.  We are a clumsy bunch, aren't we?

Plastics cause diabetes and obesity?  How about wood?

I do believe that being bored actually does not give you the right to shoot people.

Glasses that help people with red-green color blindness.

Sperm and eggs made from skin cells.

Make good art.

Additives, maps and books

Additives in our food.

Undercover Agents Infiltrated Tar Sands Resistance Camp to Break up Planned Protest  TransCanada and Department of Homeland Security keep close eye on activists, FOIA documents reveal and what fracking is doing to Texas.

Being tolerant in gaming is hard.

The Onion is real news, right?

How to prevent rape.

Maps that can change your perception of the world.

Crimes against humanity.

And, sorry Australia, for shooting one of your baseball athletes.  We have these gun laws you see....

Finally... recommended books published after 2000.

A Widow's Mite...

Cops out of control.

Indepth story of Jeff Bauman, one of the many who were wounded in the Boston Marathon bombing.

Ass-hat takes on a whole new meaning..

Oregon bans insecticide after bee deaths.

People talking about wonderful books.  And fun books being made into movies and tv shows. And plays.

Sunday drive through the blogosphere

China isn't the only one producing questionable drugs:  Bad pharma: Drug research riddled with half truths, omissions, lies. Industry-funded trials are too common, can't be trusted -- and bring pills to market that likely don't work

State EPA plans to list BPA as harmful

Procter & Gamble Must Scrub Carcinogen Dioxane From Tide

Climate change..  predictions are a lot worse than imagined.

A pet fox.

A Belgian's experience traveling in the US.

If abortion is made illegal... women will have illegal abortions.

What's going on with the banks?

Fondly remembering Mussolini... and forgetting how he ended up.

Farmers who don't give in to monocrops.

Our DNA will become our own computers.

Crafting a homemade book.

An excellent author and artist

Maurice Sendak.  Thank you, sir, for all your wonderful imaginings.  And  for your refusal to change in the face of all the attempts to censor or change your stories and paintings.  No child was ever harmed by your fancies and many were given the invitation to dance with your monsters and explore with Little Bear.

From WWI to Keith....

WWI mines and miners and the battle that cost them their lives.

Archaeologists are beginning the most detailed ever study of a Western Front battlefield, an untouched site where 28 British tunnellers lie entombed after dying during brutal underground warfare. For WWI historians, it's the "holy grail".

When military historian Jeremy Banning stepped on to a patch of rough scrubland in northern France four months ago, the hairs on the back of his neck stood up.

The privately owned land in the sleepy rural village of La Boisselle had been practically untouched since fighting ceased in 1918, remaining one of the most poignant sites of the Battle of the Somme.

In his hand was a selection of grainy photographs of some of the British tunnellers killed in bloody subterranean battles there, and who lay permanently entombed directly under his feet.

Um... run away? Massive Plasma Waves Sweep the Sun --NASA: "We're seeing things we've never seen before"

Go the Fuck to Sleep. A children's story.

Fukushima suffered a melt-through. Worse than anyone thought. And the mutations begin.

Alabama steps on women's rights. And passes the most draconian immigration law. Alabama, the black hole of compassion and empathy.

The utter stupidity of some criminals.

Keith Olbermann to Talking Points Memo consumers:

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.

YAAAYYYY!!



Keeping track on Peter Jackson's facebook.

Word play

Adjust the number of words you want compared, and look at the graph. I think my favorite word embranglement wins the prize!

And now they are after our books

Because who doesn't want to protect their children from those bad nasty thoughts out there?

Good news, educators: the book-banners are more organized than ever! Instead of lone nuts calling for books to be banned, now it's national groups of nuts, like the Parents Against Bad Books in Schools. And what makes a book "bad?"

Here's PABBIS' explanation of its philosophical beliefs: "Bad is not for us to determine. Bad is what you determine is bad. Bad is what you think is bad for your child. What each parent considers bad varies and depends on their unique situation, family and values. The main purpose of this webpage is to identify some books that might be considered bad and why someone might consider them bad."