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This month’s Intellectual Freedom post is brought to you by Gene Ambaum, half of the talented team that cracks you up regularly with the Unshelved® comic strip.Bill Barnes and I have been revamping our How to Ban a Book keynote, so I’ve been thinking a lot about censorship lately. Every time I think about censorship I think about my daughter’s fourth grade English teacher. She’s the kind of censor I don’t like. She is a sincere, dedicated professional. She is a nice lady. She made me so angry during curriculum night two years ago that my wife had to shush me and hold me in my seat. What she said was, “Comics are candy. They’re for dessert, after your kids have finished reading real books.” Yeah, I was mad. So I went up to her after everyone left (my wife went along to make sure I behaved), and I calmly made...