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The Greatest Fear of a Conservative…
… is that American citizens will be granted the right to life AFTER birth.
The Librarian and the Guinea Pig
As a prelude to Banned Books Week next month, we have the tale of a heroic librarian defending a children’s story from the wishes of a religious homophobe’s attempts to suppress it. Of course a rational defense is never the end of something like this. A second person complained and stated there are 100 more ready to stand up for censorship.
As usual, those who cannot adequately defend their position through reason must make a competing information unaccessible. Censorship is always a sign of a weak message.
Banned Books Week draws attention to those who feel it necessary to impose their views on others by making messages they disagree with unavailable. Read a banned or challenged book today!
Inspirational
Here is an inspiring story about students who struggle and succeed setting up a GSA in their school.
Doctor Strange, Straight But Not Narrow?
Thanks to a link from Neilalien I got some people to actually read this thing and even leave some valuable comments. If you link me on your blogroll I’ll link you on mine!
To be perfectly honest, my teenage mind never considered the possibility that the trucker’s comment could have been sarcastic. This, of course, turns the whole situation around. Doc is defending an underclass! Yay!
I think it can be interpreted either way equally, which makes the whole thing rather ambiguous. Still, it is something of a relief that my favorite fictional character isn’t going to explode into an Ann Coulter-ish fit of rage simply by meeting someone like me and zapping that someone into another dimension or a pile of fine ash.
In fact, one could say it leans toward the sarcastic angle since it’s never mentioned again in the ensuing forty years and his reaction many decades later to being asked the “are you gay” question is pretty much ambivalence and a hearty laugh. So, thank you commenters, this actually made me feel better.
Now, just for the heck of it: Howard the Duck, Sorcerer Supreme! (from Marvel Treasury Edition #12 via Essential Howard The duck #1)
Howard The Duck, Sorcerer Supreme
*As for the issue number error, you have my apologies. That’s what I get for scanning out of Marvel Masterworks after not having read the arc for a decade or so. Next time I won’t be so lazy and dig up the actual issue! (I don’t own the Marvel Treasury Edition issue for the above panel so deal with the black and white!)
Still Swinging that Scythe, Part II
Reaper
Yay! Season One of Reaper will be released on DVD on November 4th.