"I cannot accept your canon that we are to judge Pope and King unlike other men, with a favourable presumption that they did no wrong. If there is any presumption it is the other way, against the holders of power... Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely."

“The beautiful thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you.” – B.B King

Rep. Jared Patterson is another mindless Republican from Frisco who runs with a gang of book banners - on the edge of becoming book burners. He's proposed legislation to control books that are introduced to public school libraries in a state that already bans more books than any other in the union.

"Without a deep dive into the history of censorship, I'm guessing church people, politicians and zealots of all stripes have been trying to stamp down the idea of books and thoughts for all."

Student loan debt now totals $1.59 Trillion dollars, a $14 billion increase from this time last year. The average undergrad leaves school with $25,000 in debt at an interest rate of between 5 and 8%. Factor in grad, medical or law school, and the numbers become astronomical.