Pain Builds Character » banned books http://www.mikemaxwell.net The official blog of Mike Maxwell... whatever that's worth! Tue, 28 Jul 2009 22:18:12 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Check Your Facts http://www.mikemaxwell.net/2008/09/10/check-your-facts/ http://www.mikemaxwell.net/2008/09/10/check-your-facts/#comments Thu, 11 Sep 2008 05:08:30 +0000 Mike http://www.mikemaxwell.net/2008/09/10/check-your-facts/ I received an email this afternoon from a well-intentioned friend of mine. The email listed a bunch of books Sarah Palin supposedly sought to have banned when she became mayor of a small Alaskan town.

Since there were so many amazing classics in the list, my B.S. detector went off. I looked it up on Snopes.com, and as it turns out, the email is false.

This kind of thing discredits liberals, making us look just as bad as those fire-breathing conservatives who keep insisting Obama is a closet Muslim (which is false to begin with, but also implies it’s scandalous to be a Muslim). We should rise above the hysteria and function from our strengths – empathy, intelligence, and dedication to social justice.

Take the high road, people.

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