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- The New Yorker on A Wrinkle in Time<\/a><\/em> (including some interesting news about Philip Pullman’s Golden Compass<\/em> movies, which I sincerely hope is not true).<\/li>\n
- More on Philip Pullman and his new novel The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ<\/em>.<\/a><\/li>\n
- The New Yorker again, this time on South Park & The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n
- A teacher’s sensible views<\/a> on book banning.<\/li>\n
- Our neighbors to the north are upset about a school library book<\/a> that takes the side of the Palestinians.\u00a0 Another link<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Apparently you can’t call a biblical myth a biblical myth.\u00a0 With some parents<\/a>, the only acceptable wording is biblical truth.\u00a0 Of course if that’s the case, why do you need to teach biology at all?<\/li>\n
- Well, hell . . . it doesn’t matter what you write, someone is going to want to ban you<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Goth girls & Twilight<\/em> lovers beware: they’re coming after your vampire books<\/a>.<\/li>\n
- Texters<\/a>, you’re in their crosshairs too.<\/li>\n
- American Library Association’s top ten list<\/a> of banned books of 2009.<\/li>\n
- ALA’s top 100<\/a> banned\/challenged books: 2000-2009.<\/li>\n
- Gays<\/a>, of course, know a thing or two about book banning.<\/li>\n
- TV talk & gossip shows seem to be under some pressure not to interview Kitty Kelley<\/a>, author of Oprah: A Biography<\/em>.\u00a0 I wonder why?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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- More on Philip Pullman and his new novel The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ<\/em>.<\/a><\/li>\n