You could probably label me and my wife (and by extension, my son too) as flexitarians. We eat mostly a vegetarian diet, but make allowances in certain situations (for social, pragmatic, cultural, or nutritional reasons). Why are we flexitarians? Well, partly, to save money. Partly, for health reasons. Mostly, though, I (and, I would guess my [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Intellectual Freedom’
Banned Books Week (A Day No Pigs Would Die)
Posted in A Day No Pigs Would Die, Banned, Book, Books, Farm, Freedom of Speech, Pastoral, Robert Newton Peck, Slaughter, Vegetarian, Vermont, Young Adult, banned books, censorship, literature, novel, tagged A Day No Pigs Would Die, Banned, Banned Book, banned books, Book, Books, censorship, Farm, fiction, Freedom of Speech, Intellectual Freedom, novel, Pastoral, Pig, Robert Newton Peck, Slaughter, Vermont, Young Adult on October 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Banned Books Week (Grapes of Wrath)
Posted in Book, Books, Freedom of Speech, Grapes of Wrath, Steinbeck, banned books, media, politics, tagged banned books, Banned Books Week, BBW, Book, Books, Dirty Thirties, Dust Bowl, Freedom of Speech, Intellectual Freedom, Librarians, Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath on October 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Monday marked the beginning of the American Library Association’s 27th annual celebration of the freedom to read, more commonly known as Banned Books Week (BBW). As the ALA’s web site on BBW notes, “BBW celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or [...]
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