Assumptions and banned books

Note: What my LJ friends think of smut blogquiz, by doggieearlover.

A certain someone didn't tell me about her glasses plans for the day tomorrow until I called her earlier tonight. I believe she just assumed that I'd go along with the Vancouver thing since she was "doing me a favor." (I hate it when people do that! Staying in Richmond would be better and less time-consuming! But eh... I don't need the drama that would ensue if I told her what I thought of that, so I won't!) Guess we'll see what happens tomorrow... at any rate, Fellowship should be a panacea. (we'll see when Eric and I make plans... we talked of poop and health issues tonight, not ride arrangements! :P)


This is stolen from useless_facts:

Between 1990 and 2000, of the 6,364 challenges reported to or recorded by the Office for Intellectual Freedom (see The 100 Most Frequently Challenged Books):

* 1,607 were challenges to "sexually explicit" material (up 161 since 1999);
* 1,427 to material considered to use "offensive language"; (up 165 since 1999)
* 1,256 to material considered "unsuited to age group"; (up 89 since 1999)
* 842 to material with an "occult theme or promoting the occult or Satanism,"; (up 69 since 1999)
* 737 to material considered to be "violent"; (up 107 since 1999)
* 515 to material with a homosexual theme or "promoting homosexuality," (up 18 since 1999)
* 419 to material "promoting a religious viewpoint." (up 22 since 1999)

Other reasons for challenges included "nudity" (317 challenges, up 20 since 1999), "racism" (267 challenges, up 22 since 1999), "sex education" (224 challenges, up 7 since 1999), and "anti-family" (202 challenges, up 9 since 1999).

Wikipedia list of banned books (there are a lot of links below the article!)
2005 top 1,000 OCLC list and also banned (112 listed)

September 23-30, 2006 is Banned Book Week.