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Their Friday evening security guard should be though. He was wearing a hoodie and talking on a cell phone when I approached the door to return a book. He looked like one of the indigents that loiter there. He told me they were closed, so I asked who he was. He called me an AH. He said he was one of Topeka's finest. They must be proud.

kernal 7 months, 2 weeks ago

"He called me an AH. He said he was one of Topeka's finest." And you believed him? Then you should have asked to see his badge. I think you had it right when you pegged him for a loiterer.

WesleyWillis 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Catcher in the Rye. Must kill John Lennon. And eat brains. Bleh

RoeDapple 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Geez yes, anything by Al Gore.

Except the internet.

grammaddy 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Neva eva eva

RETICENT_IRREVERENT 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Ever wake up craving Four Loko and 3D Dorritos?

Paul R. Getto 7 months, 2 weeks ago

No. Just don't read them.

chootspa 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Not unless Amazon starts giving away all their books for free and beaming the contents directly into our skulls. Libraries may look different, and we may access them differently, but people are still going to want what they provide.

Liberty275 7 months, 2 weeks ago

If you can't ban the library, then don't ban anything other than material ruled obscene by the judiciary.

Andini 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Is their a comic book section?

labmonkey 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Come on now... wouldn't the world have been a much, much better place if they would have banned the Twilight series before it became popular?

Klumma 7 months, 2 weeks ago

No. I was almost going to say that this is a stupid question, Ergo, freedom of speech an such. Then I looked over and was reminded by a book called Little Black Sambo which was given down from my Grandmother. Guess it was considered racist as you will won't find it in any Library these days.

If you happen to find and read it you will find that it was, in idea, flawed by many racial misunderstandings from some. It is a good book.

~ And I really loved the old Sambos restaurant off 23rd St. in Lawrence. They made some great meals.

ridikkulus 7 months, 2 weeks ago

I actually have a copy of "Little Black Sambo"! It was my mother's when she was young. Loved the story so much as a child, I named our Border Collie "Sambo"! (I think I was two, at the time.)
For a while, the book was marketed as "Little Brave Sambo", but I think that one may have been banned, also.

Newell_Post 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Of course, Sambo was Indian, not African.

LadyJ 7 months, 2 weeks ago

What happened to the link and list of web blogs on the front page of the website? How can I find Roe's and Ronda's (or any other members of the ♣) latest blogs easily? Are they trying to hide them as opposed to banning them? Now I have to hunt around. Guess I'll have to bookmark that webpage along with Sarah's OHT.