How do you go wrong with Dr. Seuss? I am looking forward to picking up this “new” book with stories most of us have never read.

This comes to mind as I have been having some unfriending issues online. Seems a lot of conservatives think it is cute to misquote Ted Geisel and other liberals, twisting their words or poetic forms to advocate mean spirited things, up to and including “jokes” about murdering certain black presidents of the United States.

Dr. Seuss had a lot of good lessons for our kids. NONE of them involved segregating others and advocating violence as good things to promote. Assassination as humor was never a thing or skeeches, loraxes, Whos, and just plain people.

It is odious to be that kind of person. And I am more than glad to separate myself from that ilk.

Continuing with the book posts today, a nice interview with Eric Carle and how he came to his approach to writing and art.

Just when you thought there was enough for the Nazis to atone for, you find out there is still much, much more.

I’ve often wondered if there is a method to the madness of O’Reilly technical books. Well, kind of.

I know about most of these but always glad to pass along relevant info.

Seriously folks, you have already paid for these services. Go use them!

Nice. Check out these libraries.

Man this pisses me off every time I hear about it.

Some jackass decided that having racial slurs in Huckleberry Finn is what is stopping people from reading it. So he’s taking the offensive words out.

This is completely missing the point. For all the silliness that might make political correctness a joke, not once have I seen an effort to whitewash the past so it won’t offend us in the here and now.

Of course, the pro-censorship conservative types are all for this. Even as they host Secession Balls and hate that the president is black, they – gasp! – don’t want anyone to be offended by the n-word in a book.

Maybe we should cut out all the genocide and rape in the Bible and see how they like it. I guess we can keep the torture of Jesus in there though. If there is anything conservatives would like, it would be torturing a Jewish guy who looks like a hippie.

The BBC had a lively discussion on the subject as well.

Yet another review for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.

Like I’ve said before, it was a pretty good read. Implausible, but the author has been very clear on that from the get-go. Just the fact that he weaved a tale that could just almost be believable was a damn good piece of work.