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It’s Monday, yay. There’s a new post up at True Diet Confessions, with visual aids and everything. Would you like me to post yours? Email it to me at truedietconfession@hotmail.com.
It’s banned book week! As an English Major and reader of many fine banned books, I urge you to visit the American Library Association’s website and learn more about banned and challenged books, and then read some of them. If someone thinks, for example, that Harry Potter is teaching kids witchcraft, they have every right not to read Harry Potter or let their kids read it either. What I don’t believe is that a public library should be forced to remove a book from its’ shelves because someone complains.It’s hard for me to put myself into the shoes of someone who actively works to get a book banned. I can understand thinking a book is inappropriate for you or your children, but why would someone feel that a book is inappropriate for everyone? How does a person get to a point in their mind where they feel they know what’s best for everyone else? The point of a library is to make reading materials available to everyone, without censoring or judging. And that means carrying books about sex ed and homosexuality and Republicans. Don’t like it? Don’t use the library.
Don’t like what’s on TV? Don’t watch it. Don’t like video games? Don’t play them. Don’t like prayer in school/no prayer in school/intelligent design/evolution/creationism? Find a different school. Sorry to get up on a soapbox here, but it really burns me that my library could take Harry Potter or Catcher in the Rye or Forever off the shelves because one or two people complain.
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We switched from DirecTV to Comcast Digital Cable today. Comcast OnDemand is the BOMB. 140 free movies I can watch any time I want starting from the beginning. Just yesterday I had the theme to “Stripes” running in my head, and I mentioned to Chris that I would like to rent it.
No need, it’s OnDemand and I’m watching it right now. “Who here knows some English? You?” “Son of beetch. Sheet”. “Aren’t you going too fast? It’s not the speed, it’s that I wish I hadn’t drank all that cough syrup this morning”. Hee hee!
Chris sent me the link to the evolvefish website, which sells those emblems you can stick on your car. I like the flying spaghetti monster, but also the Satan fish with horns, the YodaFish, and the BlowMe Fish. Talk about Free Speech.
Not much else going on. Kaitlyn is feeling better, although she has to take the Amoxicillin until Friday, and it gives her horrible diarrhea. So that’s fun. I’m looking forward to catching “Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip”, since I missed the premiere last week due to extreme feeling-sickiness. And hey, now that I have a dual-tuner DVR, I can record it, or even pause it live and not miss anything! I love technology. Have a great week darlins’.
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Hello and welcome to Table for Five! I'm Elizabeth, and this blog started in September 2005 as a way for me to participate in the Mommy Blogging community. I'm married with three terrific kids-boys ages 11 and 9 and a 2 year old daughter. Things I love include my family, coffee, Diet Coke, TV, reading, and Target.
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I completely agree that if you don’t like something, don’t pay attention to it. Why should things be banned because some people don’t like it. People are different, and that is a good thing.
Um, NO, you didn’t tell me about that woman at BlogHer and the peeing and ohmygosh, THE TALKING.
I think I might have slipped out the door while she was talking. The sound of her own voice would have covered the noise of the door. EEEEEEE.
Have you visited her website since?
My mom was a school librarian, and was requested several times over the course of her career to take books off the shelves. She always refused. Once, administrators came into the library and removed the books themselves. Mom waited a week, and then snuck new copies out on the shelves.
How any library can claim to foster intelligent inquiry when they censor the material available to their patrons is beyond me.
Grrr! Let’s hear it for freedom of information!
The only thing I don’t think should be in the library (or at least out in the open where kids are/can be) is ‘adult’ type lit. (I don’t want to use the “p” word and have weird things happen to your site.) But other than that, I could care less.
I just get annoyed when I can’t find the book I want in our local 12-library system, and going in to stand there and request new books for the system with two kids screeching away isn’t much fun.
The mister and I are still coming to terms with the wonder that is OnDemand. “Oh hey, it’s on OnDemand! We … can watch this? Right NOW? And it’s FREE?” Awesome.
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