I lost a post. I know it was here, at one point, and now it's.... gone. I'm wondering if it got removed/censored because of it's content. It would really be a shame if my very sporadic posts got deleted. I've been writing on Blogger for awhile, although not with any regularity. Life gets in the way, and as no one is paying me to do this I have to actually go work for a living. I know most of my posts are directed at the left side of the political spectrum, but every once in awhile it's a good idea to look at your own side and take stock. I was forced to do that when I sort of went back to Twitter/X. Now I have no side. I have officially left the right. (No, I won't be joining the left, because I don't see the point in leaving one set of crazies in exchange for another.) It started, way back around Easter, when the Daily Wire and Candace Owen parted ways. Whatever the reasons might have been, it was preceded by a rather petty and childish
So I have spent the last few days thinking about writing a blog post, but I have so many things going around in my head, I was having trouble deciding on just one. Today, I decided to just start writing and see what comes out. It may very well be word vomit, and for that I apologize. I wanted to talk about banning books. We seemed to have become very confused on what exactly banning books means. Refusing to stock sexually explicit books in an elementary school is not banning books, especially if you can go on Amazon and order that book and have it delivered to you the next day. I spent most of my life in conservative Christian schools. And yet, from 6th grade on, I developed an intense fascination with the writer, John Saul. He wrote horror books. I also really had a thing for the Sweet Valley High books (yes, my tastes were all over the map.) Neither one of those books could be found in my Christian School library, but somehow I managed to read them all. They were effe