It’s Banned Books Week, from September 24th to October 1st:
During the last week of September every year, hundreds of libraries and bookstores around the country draw attention to the problem of censorship by mounting displays of challenged books and hosting a variety of events.
The 2011 celebration of Banned Books Week will be held from September 24 through October 1. Banned Books Week is the only national celebration of the freedom to read. It was launched in 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books in schools, bookstores and libraries.
More than 11,000 books have been challenged since 1982.
Here is the arrogance of the state: it taxes from the privately productive, depriving them of their earnings, builds public institutions, and then tells those very same taxpayers what is, or is not, appropriate for reading at those institutions.
Their money was good enough to take in taxes, but their choice of books in publicly-funded schools and libraries? Oh, no, some middling bureaucrat, some starched scold, and more abercrombies than one could shake a stick at – they’ll decide what’s right.