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I’m sure you’ve seen the news that some countries, like Germany, are refusing to air reruns of The Simpsons that feature problems at Mr. Burns’s nuclear power plant. This is supposed to be a sensitive response to what’s happening in Japan. The Simpsons people have said that this decision is fine with them. I’m [...]  A prominent critic of the “theory” of climate change wants Margaret Atwood to be removed from her position on PEN. (article here: http://www.torontolife.com/daily/informer/mediaocracy/2010/11/11/climate-skeptic-wants-margaret-atwood-off-pen-board/). PEN is an organization Atwood has been at the forefront of for years–it fights for the free speech of authors around the world (it’s akin to Amnesty International, but has a [...] Okay–it’s been awhile since I’ve written. First, I had to get the blog to stay up–let us all thank my faithful friend and reader, Ken, who donated his time and money to enable me to do so. Then, it was finals, and then I headed off to Canada for ten days. Today I wanted [...] Today, as we were standing in line to see Iron Man 2, Courtney noticed that the box office sign had crossed out two letters on the name of another film. That’s right–they were showing KICK A**. We sent the boy over to check out the large poster hanging on the side of [...] The matchflick column is here: http://www.matchflick.com/column/1882 I reported a little while ago on Atwood not attending a conference in Dubai because the conference censored an author whose book had a gay muslim character. Atwood (and the rest of us) have since learned that the conference says they didn’t censor the book or author, but [...] Atwood has pulled out of an appearance at the International Festival in Dubai after a British author was banned from the conference due to homosexual content in her work. Dubai is supposed to be the Vegas of the Arab world, but as many countries’ leaders have told us (I’m looking at you, Iran), there [...] A parent in Canada has asked a school board to take The Handmaid’s Tale off the reading list for seventeen year olds. He doesn’t like the bad language, the brutality (esp against women), and its anti-Christian-ness. Never mind that the book won The Governor’s General Award (Canada’s Pulitzer) or the fact that it remains [...] |
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