Archive for the ‘Books’ Category
Monday, March 8th, 2010
We all know how bad it hurts when someone negatively comments on your work, but don’t they say “learn from your mistakes”, not “attempt to burry them in an enraged public display”?
Well, law professor Karin Calvo-Goller didn’t get the memo.
After writing a book entitled Trial Proceedings of the International Criminal ...
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Tuesday, June 9th, 2009
According to Techdirt, a group of people in Wisconsin are petitioning a local library for permission to burn "Baby Be-Bop", the story of a gay teenager.
Of course, by making this big stink about wanting to burn the book (and suing for $120,000 because they were exposed to it), the book ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Tintin In The Congo is a series of comic strips in a book, written in 1931 by Belgian author Herge.
In July of 2007, Britain's equality watchdog (The Commission for Racial Equality) came down hard on the book, accusing it of making black people "look like monkeys and talk like imbeciles". ...
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