More Sad News

Between the stock market tanking and banks folding, I must confess to feeling pretty sad about this item in the Times. I was just a kid when The Satanic Verses came out - and I haven't read it, but I do remember seeing protests and hearing about the fatwa put out on Salman Rushdie. This kind of story really angers me. I'm just glad that the publisher is remaining strong in the face of this intimidation. Standing up to bullies is really the only way to go.

Shame!

I was very disappointed to read this article in the Globe and Mail today. Banning books?? What's happening in Burlington? A shortage of real challenges to resolve? As a reformed agnostic (some may incorrectly term me a lapsed Catholic), nothing strengthened my desire to leave religious thought and practice behind like the dogmatic, illogical assertions of some of my "teachers". So in that respect, the good folks at the Halton school board are doing a great job urging thinking students out the door. Good one!

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