My apologies for the slow posting this week.

It is finals time in the graduate school arena. My mental faculties are all tied up till next week.

Be back soon!

Kudos to the Evening Sun online (Greater Hanover/Gettysburg) for publishing this look at censorship.

I would doubt the Littlestown parents in question actually read the entirety of the book they were challenging; all of their claims sound suspiciously like hollow reactionary rhetoric - the kind you usually find hovering around anything sexual…or relevant, for that matter.

I particularly like the earnest, unpretentious opening paragraph:

Censorship is such a powerful tool, it’s almost hard to imagine anyone willing to wield it. Hard to imagine anyone believing they have that kind of moral authority.

A simple, most eloquent defense of intellectual freedom if I’ve ever heard one.