Sunday, September 12, 2010  Meditations on book burning    As
usual, I'm of multiple minds concerning this.    Christian
Johann Heinrich Heine, in his 1821 play, Almansor, uttered a
stark, uncomfortable truth:          On the gripping hand ...
Joe Allen said...  I too, am of a couple of (simple) minds about
the subject.  For one thing - by burning a volume of ideas, you
simply show that you have no way to refute those ideas with
logic and reason and you fear them so much that you must destroy
them.  Mostly though, I'm proud to live in a country where we
can burn the holiest and most sacred of books. I'm sorely
tempted to stage a rally where everyone brings a book that's
sacred to them and sets it ablaze. Whether it's the Bible, the
Quran or the '92 Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition - whatever
tome they hold dearest - chuck it in the fire and show that
ideas (and porn) live in the head and the heart and that a free
society need have no fear of words.  Ambulance Driver said...  I
am totally opposed to