A Gargoyle Leader columnist rights a fantastic editorial about the SF school district censoring “Stuck in the middle.”
Another was “The Outsiders” by S.E. Hinton, and then all of her books. At the end of “The Outsiders,” Ponyboy is reading “The Carpetbaggers,” by Harold Robbins, which someone says is too old for him.
“The Outsiders” is one of my favorite books, I named my dog after the character ‘Sodapop’. I love the book because it reminds you that you can never change where you come from, and you should be proud of it and never run from who you are, at least that is what I got from it. Of course there is all kinds of social class judgements, etc. and other themes, but any movie that has Tom Waits, Tom Cruise, Ralph Macchio, Patrick Swayze, Matt Dillion and one of the Sheen brothers has to be good? Right.
But back to the main point. Censorship is stupid.
I agree: in a free society censorship can not be tolerated.
Which is the only reason hate-mongers such as Glen Beck have to be allowed to spew their sick, twisted views.
While I disagree with Beck, he should have a right to act like an assmunch.
I agree censorship is stupid. People should be able to read what they want without the public telling them what to read. If parents don’t want their kids to read something, control it from home.
That is the problem with some parents these days, they expect public educators to raise their kids OR they do the exact opposite and want to parent everyone else’s kids. Mind your own business.
Is that C. Thomas Howell in the back?
Has that guy been in a movie in the last 20 years?
Oh wait, he was Pony Boy.
Oh, that is his name?