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Time for some First Amendment fun... this is Banned Books Week. So grab a copy of The Catcher in the Rye or Harry Potter and enjoy reading something other people find offensive. If you want to find out what censorship's going down in your area, click here. List of most frequently banned books here.

Also, in honor of banning books and the librarians that take the heat to keep 'em on the shelves, check out this response by a public librarian to a patron "concerned" that the library had made available this book about a little girl whose uncle is marrying another man. It's a respectful, well-crafted response. Not to mention, I now have a new book to buy for Cora, even though her gay uncle will never get married, or probably even be in a serious relationship, but that's an entirely different book altogether. That book would be called "Uncle Bobby's Commitment Issues and Inability to Recognize That He's Supposed to Be a Grown-Up." But I digress.

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