Are We “Progressing” To The Point In The Good Ole USofA’s History Where A Person Can Make Us Change Policies, Directions, Laws and Flavors In Baskin and Robbins Ice Cream Parlors?

Yea, I am aware that this is the third Blog Posting in a row about the subject of Banned Books. Yea, I know that Fella has been known to say, “If the horse is dead, get off the horse”. OK, I’ll listen to me but only after posting this one last blog on this sad subject...Or will it be the last one?

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I thought you might overlook the words “A Person” in the title of this Blog Posting so I tried to underline them but BlogSpot does not underline words in the Subject. That way there would have been no way you could have overlooked them. You are going to have to underline them in your mind's eye. I sure hope your mind's eye is not shut today.

Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Agatha Christie and Harper Lee might be four of America’s most respected authors, but some of their books have made it onto a list of the country’s 100 most frequently banned and challenged books during the last decade. This is awful but don’t think it is the only times this Literary Crime has happened or will happen now that it has happened.

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“A” is a Big Word!

To Kill a Mockingbird and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn have been suspended from the curriculum in some Virginia schools, after a parent complained about the use of racial slurs.

There you have it. We are being ruled by the word “a” as in “A Person”, “A Parent” or “A School Board Member”. It’s a takeoff on the term used in Sports “One And Done” or is it “One And Undone”? It’s sort of like...Why do we need more than one if we have one?

Fella sees through all of this and has a way out all of this. If we have “a parent” object to doing it this way before we go to all the trouble to change it to that way what we need do is get another “a parent” to object to doing it that way and we will have an offset to the first parent by the second parent and we can just stay the way we were before the first “a parent” objected.

I am well aware that another “a parent” could object to the second “a parent’s” objection to the first “a parent’s” objection and so on but remember the name of this Blog is Foolishness...Or Is It. I contend that my foolishness is as important as the all of these “a parent’s” foolishness.

If we could get all the clear thinking judges (that may not be many left) to read this Blog Posting and see its “wisdom” and then start saying, “Get out of my courtroom” we would all be better off.

Would I kid u?

Smartfella

Lagniappe: The Bible joined the ranks of the most challenged books for the first time this year. According to the American Library Association the challenges to the Bible centered on the fact that the Bible has a ‘religious viewpoint’.

Lagniappe Another: According to the American Literary Association between January 1 and August 31, 2022, American Literary Alliance (ALA) documented 681 attempts to ban or restrict library resources, and 1,651 unique titles were targeted. Books that caught my eye:

3. 1984

5. Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)

6.  To Kill a Mockingbird

9. Mein Kampf (I was afraid that this one was not on the list.)

11. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

21. The Holy Bible

22. The Quran

45. Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll (U.S.)

47.  The Call of the Wild by Jack London (U.S.)

58. Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White (U.S.)

69. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (U.S.).

70. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (U.S.)

95. A Farewell To Arms by Ernest Hemingway

96. A Study In Scarlet by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (U.S.)

97. Black Beauty by Anna Sewell (South Africa)

98. For Whom The Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (Spain)

99. Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D. H. Lawrence (U.K.)