tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-818120104790188682.post6435850505571955905..comments2023-10-17T06:16:39.096-05:00Comments on My Two Cents: Books and KooksJonathan Krausehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12984429728716926528noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-818120104790188682.post-74807691327113347642010-02-21T06:52:20.755-06:002010-02-21T06:52:20.755-06:00Amiable fill someone in on and this post helped me...Amiable fill someone in on and this post helped me alot in my college assignement. Say thank you you as your information.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-818120104790188682.post-68006559273033602262010-02-19T19:33:10.642-06:002010-02-19T19:33:10.642-06:00Sorry Jet! I should have caught the reference...I ...Sorry Jet! I should have caught the reference...I guess I've been a bit on the defensive the last couple of days! <br /><br />:)Sonyahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13992239969770885567noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-818120104790188682.post-64156142910302154832010-02-19T13:43:24.639-06:002010-02-19T13:43:24.639-06:00Ms. Sones, I am sorry;
I thought everyone would g...Ms. Sones, I am sorry; <br />I thought everyone would get the joke. "Mrs. Lovejoy" is a character (the minister's wife) on The Simpsons animated TV show, who repeatedly uttered that line in some episode. The show's point was to lampoon such censoristic know-it-all busy-bodies, and that was my point in quoting it. The mon in Fond du Lac seemed all too similar to the cartoon Mrs. Lovejoy to me.<br /><br />By the way, I'm not in the right demographic to read your work, but that is one GREAT title!!! When my daughter was in middle school, she had an inordinate fondness for tearjerker novels that I referred to as "dead teenager" books.Jet Dixonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-818120104790188682.post-81583193840071794222010-02-19T12:27:11.256-06:002010-02-19T12:27:11.256-06:00I am the author of One Of Those Hideous Books Whe...I am the author of One Of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies. I’m sorry that Ms. Wentworth finds my book too sexual in nature. If Ms. Wentworth thinks the book is inappropriate for her own child, then by all means she should not allow her child to read it. But it would be unfair and inappropriate for her to try to force her own personal beliefs on every other family with children attending Theisen Middle School, or any other school in the district. <br /><br />As the 2010 United States Ambassador of Children’s Books, Katherine Patterson, once said, "All of us can think of a book that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us." <br /><br />I would like the woman who commented "Think of the children!" to know that when I was writing the book, I DID think of the children - which is why my book makes it very clear that entering into a sexual relationship casually is a very bad idea. The narrator of the book, in fact, never goes further than second base, although she is being pressured to do so. My book shows young readers that they should not allow themselves to be pressured into doing anything that they don't want to be doing!<br /><br />Fortunately Ms. Wentworth did not succeed in forcing the removal of my book from the school library. If she had, a very bad example would have been set for the students! <br /><br />Thank you for your time, <br />Sonya SonesSonya Soneshttp://www.sonyasones.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-818120104790188682.post-37487770777343633522010-02-19T11:07:33.376-06:002010-02-19T11:07:33.376-06:00"WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILD..."WON'T SOMEBODY PLEASE THINK OF THE CHILDREN??????"Mrs. Lovejoynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-818120104790188682.post-2155511257694580772010-02-19T09:15:25.898-06:002010-02-19T09:15:25.898-06:00>>And unlike what Anonymous had to say, it h...>>And unlike what Anonymous had to say, it had nothing to do with what "side" you are on in politics.<< <br /><br />I don't think he meant that your "side" had anything to do with actually committing such an act. I think he meant that how *we* PERCIEVE such acts is dictated by our "side". I think he was commenting on how people will try to "make hay" politically out of these things, to score points for their "side". <br /><br />I sure would hope "my side" doesn't try to paint this as "typical" of "right-wing wing-nuts", to say anything much stronger than what I said.Speed Carternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-818120104790188682.post-42400917930705986402010-02-19T07:13:25.467-06:002010-02-19T07:13:25.467-06:00I agree with Speed Carter, for most of us we see i...I agree with Speed Carter, for most of us we see it as it is....for some for what ever reason they lash out. And unlike what Anonymous had to say, it had nothing to do with what "side" you are on in politics. This man was a sick person who commited a terrible crime. I feel sorry for his family because they are the ones who will suffer over this. Not him, he took the easy out of his problems.Darrielnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-818120104790188682.post-14389797429017603152010-02-19T06:56:38.580-06:002010-02-19T06:56:38.580-06:00"I hope no one tries to portray the guy who f..."I hope no one tries to portray the guy who flew a plane into the IRS building in Austin, Texas as a member of the Tea Party Movement or as some "right winger who just got fed up with Government."<br /><br />Nonetheless, it is easy to imagine that the pathological fervor with which bloviational demagogues like Mssrs. Limbaugh and Beck stoke the flames of anti-progressivism could exacerbate the mental illness of certain tortured souls. Healthy folks can listen to such mindless drivel and do nothing illegal or immoral, but the few sick minds out there can be pushed over the edge. It's the same situation as "do violent media cause kids to be violent?" Fot 99% of normal kids, no. For one's teetering on the brink, yes.Speed Carternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-818120104790188682.post-22404501740330361412010-02-19T06:28:22.002-06:002010-02-19T06:28:22.002-06:00Had the roles been reversed, all of the conservati...Had the roles been reversed, all of the conservatives in this country would have been up in arms, that some liberal who was fed up with something crashed his plane into a building. They would have said this was mainstream left wing politics and that we should all be running for our lives. <br /><br />But no, Jonny decides to quickly come to the defense of his beloved GOP, to make sure everyone knows this was just the act of some lunatic instead of the typical republican. <br /><br />It's funny how the right sees things.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com