You Can’t Read That!
You Can’t Read That! is a periodic post about book banning and censorship. YCRT! features news and opinion roundups, commentary, history, and reviews.
Saturday Updates: Birds, Watches, Persepolis
Our back yard bird feeder cam has issues. It’ll stop recording, but since the same birds trigger the camera over and over again, it’ll be a while before I realize the videos are a few days old. To get it working again, I have to go out back with my iPad, put it and the […]
Air-Minded: Seeing Mirages
… I saw plenty of Belgian Mirage IIIs during my time in NATO, and once had a semi-close encounter with a pair of French ones while on a cross-country to Spain, a story worth sharing here.
To Boldly Go
I woke up in bed Saturday morning with an eighty-year-old woman by my side.
Flip This, Greedoid
Saturday was the day a much-hyped plastic pocket watch, jointly designed by Swatch and high-end watchmaker Audemars Piguet, went on sale at Swatch outlets around the world.
Watch Show & Tell by Paul: Paying Homage
I’ll leave the debates to others: I’m Team Homage.
The Birdwatcher’s Lament
Say what you will about Mark Zuckerberg, his moderation policies have kept his three sites from going the way of TikTok and Twitter, which have been overrun by MAGAbots and Nazis.
You Can’t Read That! Banned Book Review: Sold
I saw the most recent “top ten” (actually eleven) list of challenged and targeted books in America and realized the title in the number one position, Patricia McCormick’s Sold, was one I’d not heard of before. Since my library had a copy, I decided to read and review it.