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A brave statement for a librarian to be making these days: A children’s book depicting a masked burglar pointing a gun at a woman will remain in Evanston Public Library despite complaints that the image is too violent for young readers. “A good library collection should have something to offend everyone,” said Jan Bojda, head…

This is an awesome idea, especially in light of the recent vicious assaults on an art gallery owner in San Francisco’s North Beach. [CCA Santa Fe link courtesy LISNews.]

Americans are increasingly a clueless and brutal lot. Latest case in point: a San Francisco woman is forced to shut down her art gallery, after Brown Shirt thugs beat her up over the display of a painting depicting the Abu Ghraib prison abuse story: ‘After displaying a painting of U.S. soldiers torturing Iraqi prisoners, a…