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They list some of my favorite books
From Not the Bee: Britain has a government program called “Prevent” that was founded in 2019 to research what causes a Muslim to become a terrorist. [Hint: It’s reading the Quran] As part of this department, there’s something called the “Research Information and Communications Unit,” or RICU, that looks into materials that cause people to… Continue reading
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Idaho fighting the feds on windmills
Idaho state government is fighting the Bureau of Land Management on a proposed windmill project. “Idahoans cherish the concept of multiple and mixed uses on their public lands. This requires conservation, predictability of use, and, most importantly, support from the local communities. These deep-rooted values are compromised by a piecemeal approach to large-scale generation projects… Continue reading
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And then they came for Ian Fleming
Oh for fuck’s sake…. Ahead of a coming re-release to mark the 70th anniversary since the release of Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale novel, the first in the James Bond series, the publication reports that the works have been “rewritten” to appease woke sensibilities. The revelation comes after a week of controversy surrounding recent reprints of… Continue reading
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Telling the Brits to pound sand on censorship
French, Dutch, and US publishers have told the Brits that they will not be changing Roald Dahl’s books to make them more ‘sensitive’. A spokesperson for Dahl’s U.S. publisher Penguin Young Readers told PW that there are no plans for similar revisions in the U.S. “Roald Dahl books published by Penguin Young Readers and distributed… Continue reading
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Irony is certainly a bitch…
You never know what you’re going to find when you shake your ancestral tree. I’m sure Angela Davis, a Marxist professor at the University of California wasn’t expecting what she found. “Davis is one of the founders of Critical Race Theory as an academic subject and discipline. She is widely quoted in newer books from… Continue reading
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Erasing literature
Something that’s more insidious that just outright banning books is rewriting them. That’s what’s happening to Roald Dahl’s books. They are being reworked by ‘sensitivity’ experts. Roald Dahl’s famed children’s books are being scrubbed by so-called sensitivity experts to remove language they deem offensive, including “fat” or “ugly” characters — and making the beloved Oompa… Continue reading
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Speaking out against the stupidity of men in women's sports
In England and Wales, they are allowing a middle-aged man to play cricket against girls as young as 12 years old. This guy has already injured two people, including an umpire and another player, who was out of the game for months. Hopefully good sense will win out in this case like it did in women’s… Continue reading