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It looks like fall is here. It has been cool and one night we turned the heat on but I don’t think it actually ran.
Shane’s birthday went well and he got an iPod and some smaller gifts, and gift cards. Part of him still wants to buy toys with the money and gift cards and another part of him wants to save it for something better. I wonder if that happens to everyone at his age.
As I sat at work last night everything was fine until around 2am when I started getting a headache. I noticed I started having flashes of “light” behind my right eye and then that eye started to get blurry and I started getting the usual pain behind that eye. I took a Relpex in the hope of stopping a migraine but it really didn’t do a lot. The rest of the night just went by very slow, as I tried to stay focused. I need to get some Feverfew and start taking it every day again. I use to take it years ago and it did reduce my number of migraines.
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October 3rd is the last day of the 2009 “Banned Book Week” which is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment.
The books featured during Banned Books Week have been targets of attempted bannings. Fortunately, while some books were banned or restricted, in a majority of cases the books were not banned, all thanks to the efforts of librarians, teachers, booksellers, and members of the community to retain the books in the library collections.
Since 2001 bans on 3,736 books and other materials have been requested. “And Tango Makes Three”, based on a true story and centring on gay penguins in New York’s Central Park Zoo, has had the most ban requests. Reasons include, “anti-ethnic, anti-family, homosexuality, religious viewpoint, and unsuited to age group”.
In 2008 the American Library Association recorded 517 ban requests. Seventy-four were successful.
Other classic literature subjected to complaints include JD Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling.
Earlier this week, it was announced that JK Rowling missed out on the Presidential Medal of Freedom because some US politicians believed she “encouraged witchcraft”.
Check out the 2008/2009 list of challanged books and why the ban was requested.
****So remember, in the last week of September of every year, find and read a “banned book”, or better yet, participate in a local “banned book read-a-thon”. Don’t let others take away your 1st amendment rights.****
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Who the hell is Donal Blaney and why does he think he is the only person in the world with that name? Yes the U.K. right-wing political blogger Donal Blaney wants someone who tweets on Twitter under the name Donal Blaney to stop tweeting with that name.
Blaney the blogger is having a injunction sent via Twitter to Blaney the tweeter ordering him/her to stop tweeting under the copyright of Blaney.
I guess I will start following the “fake” Blaney on Twitter and see what happens.
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Number of Operations Iraq Freedom and Enduring Freedom casualties
as confirmed by U.S. Central Command: 5176
October 2nd, 2009 at 08:58
Aight Donal Blaney is a rare name. If I where in his situation I would stop the tweets of his double too. No, just kidding. This is completely nonsense. I´m wondering if he really things, he has the right to do this.