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Shiftless2 said:
Censorship again (of course it's Texas so no surprise there)

It's not the foul language. It's education they are really objecting to​

"And then there's the Bible ....." S2 #222
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Champions of ignorance.

Shiftless2 said:

It's education they are really objecting to S2 #222​

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Seems hypocritical to me.
If these banned texts should not be read, how do the book-banners know? Did they read them?
If they did, where's the harm? They seem to have survived.
If they didn't, on what basis is the ban?
 
sear said:
If these banned texts should not be read, how do the book-banners know? Did they read them?
If they did, where's the harm? They seem to have survived.
If they didn't, on what basis is the ban?
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It's pretty clear that in many cases the people complaining about a book and wanting to have it banned haven't read it.

BTW, the vid mentions "Romeo and Juliet" Juliet is explicitly stated to be 13 years old (close to turning 14). Romeo's exact age is never mentioned in the text, but most scholars and readers estimate he is around 16 to 18 years old based on his behavior and storyline. And they spent the night together in Juliet's bed. I'm sure that if people realized how young they were that would be enough to have the book banners up in arms. (On that topic we did study that play when I was in high school but none of us realized how old they were and, if the teacher knew, it was never mentioned in class.

And I can just imagine what the reaction would be to a book like "Rainbow Boys". Basically it's about young teens, crushes, coming of age - the sort of stuff that would make a good Harlequin Romance - only thing is, the teens are gay.
 
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Shiftless2 said:
"My child is free to call himself/herself/their what-ever he/she/they choose." #228
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This bears the superficial appearance of being sensible. BUT !
This became an issue somehow, enough of an issue to trigger policy.

Ridicule / satire has a role to play in our culture.
Fortunately self-impressed narrow-minded satire is not decisive compulsory policy. The disempowered and vulnerable among us continue to need protection.
 
I remember my grade 5 class - there were three boys named James - when the teacher commented that it was going to be confusing they were asked to check with their parents about possible nicknames.

All three came back the next day with parent approved options. One was Jim, one was Jamie, and the third was Jay. And those name stuck thru adulthood (not sure about Jamie because he ended up going to different high school and I lost track of him) - Jim ended up teaching at a small west coast university and Jay ended up as managing partner of his law firm (even the company masthead included the name Jay).
 
Shiftless2 said:
"I remember my grade 5 class -
All three came back the next day with parent approved options. One was Jim, one was Jamie, and the third was Jay. " S2 #230
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If it had been me, 5th grade, I might have come up with CAPTAIN BICEPS !! - or worse -

I suspect the policy relates to a negative, taunting nicknames such as "fatso".
I would hope that such policy is intended to protect, and not impede. BUT !
Authority is occasionally abused.
 
No - in this case the teacher was adamant that our parents had chosen our names when we were born and the school was not going to use any name that our parents hadn't approved of.

That didn't mean that we didn't use other nicknames among ourselves. Only that we had to use names our parents approved of in school.
 
No - in the case of the three "James" I mentioned in #230 we weren't supposed to use anything else (Jim, Jamie, whatever) in class unless their parents had approved it.
 
The kids are alright

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Now how long until the HOA fines them for building something that doesn't fit their "vision" and the city makes them tear it down because they didn't have a permit?
 

John Wayne Had A Cameo In The Western TV Series That Inspired Star Trek​

James Grebey / Tue, September 1, 2026 at 1:52 PM GMT-5

While there have been tons of great Western TV series over the years, the legendary John Wayne rarely appeared on the small screen. Most of the time he was on TV, he was playing himself rather than acting in character. There was one notable exception, though: an episode of the highly influential series "Wagon Train."

"Wagon Train" premiered on NBC in 1957 and ran for eight seasons over eight years. The show followed a group of settlers as their wagon train headed west from Missouri, and each episode would have them encounter new people in a new place on their journey. Interestingly, when Gene Roddenberry pitched "Star Trek," he compared it to "Wagon Train," with the sci-fi series swapping out the Wild West setting for its many alien homeworlds.

Wayne makes a cameo appearance in "The Colter Craven Story," a Season 4 episode of "Wagon Train" that aired on November 23, 1960. The hour-long story revolves around a doctor who crosses paths with the wagon train — the appropriately named Dr. Craven (Carleton Young). Craven has lost his nerve and started drinking rather than practicing medicine, but he becomes inspired to get back on the wagon (pun intended) when he hears the story of how Ulysses Grant (Paul Birch) overcame his own drinking problem. Wayne features in this flashback as General William Tecumseh Sherman. While he goes by the pseudonym "Michael Morris" in the credits and appears mostly in shadow, his voice is unmistakable.
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John Wayne Had A Cameo In The Western TV Series That Inspired Star Trek

John Wayne rarely appeared in TV shows, but in 1960, an old friend convinced him to turn up in a beloved — and highly influential — Western series.
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"There never will be talking pictures." D.W. Griffith

Of all the arts, the cinema is the most important. Vladimir Ilich "Nikolai" Lenin 1870-1924

"I love the movies. It's the only socially acceptable excuse to sit in the dark and eat food out of a bucket." Stephen Colbert 24/11/07

"I like old movies. I think they should make more of them." sear
 
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