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Against Banned Books (Please Spread This Pic & The Text), originally uploaded by lyingsaucer.

This is absurdly late, but it’s Banned Books Week. So why not choose one of the 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books and subvert yourself?

For my part, I’m reading Reading Lolita in Tehran by Azar Nafisi. It’s about a group of women in Tehran, Iran, who gathered in secret to read forbidden Western classics. With Banned Books Week leading into the Islamic holy month of Ramadan, it seemed doubly relevant.

“If you wanted to reduce crime, you could — if that were your sole purpose — you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.”

–Former Secretary of Education William Bennett, demonstrating that gambling addiction isn’t his only problem, on his talk-radio program Thursday.