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filthy
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Posted - 11/29/2005 :  12:04:24  Show Profile Send filthy a Private Message
Found this at the Rude Pundit's place. As might be expected, nay: anticipated, he has a few rude words and phrases on the topic.

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11/29/2005
Bannin' Books, Kansas-Style:
You need a larf in these tragic times? You need a little political sorbet to cleanse the mental palate as the mindboggling parade of scandals, from Duke Cunningham to more Rove to whatever the fuck is going on with Iraq, starts to get to ya? Then click on over to the website for the Overland Park, Kansas group, "Citizens for Literary Standards in Schools," and get ready to double over, 'cause it's a motherfuckin' blast.

See, the group of parents, which calls itself, it seems, "CLaSS," (or, more, properly, "classKC") wants to bring "decency" back to the required reading materials for students in the Blue Valley district. The coolest part of the site? Why, CLaSS provides a list of offending passages from each of the books it wants banned. No more do the students, hands grimy and unwashed after masturbation, have to underline and giggle at the bad words. CLaSS has done the works for them. Wanna know where the narrator talks about her vagina in Maya Angelou's I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings? CLaSS helpfully provides it.


Yes Toto, you're still in Kansas.....

I was fortunate when I spent my brief tenure in school. My mother cared little what I read as long as I was reading. But along with the violent, fleshy horrors of Mickey Spillane and other mystery writers, I formed and enhanced a life-long fascination with wildlife. I read a great deal of Mark Twain and Ambrose Bierce as well as Roger Conant, and other herpetolgists. I became well aquainted with E. Ross Allen through his essays and eventually came to know him personally. I read a lot of western fiction, especally the Gold Medal paperbacks.

I think I might have read perhaps two of the Hardy Boys drivelers, so popular with my peers.

I did my daughters the same favor, and they are voracious readers, and the younger has taken to writing....

If a book is a piece of shit, it will not recieve much serious attention and will deservedly die of neglect. Censoring it should be a capital offense!


"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)

"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres


"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude

Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,

and Crypto-Communist!

Siberia
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Posted - 11/29/2005 :  12:15:04   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Visit Siberia's Homepage  Send Siberia an AOL message  Send Siberia a Yahoo! Message Send Siberia a Private Message
Hell, Black Beauty has been banned once.

"Why are you afraid of something you're not even sure exists?"
- The Kovenant, Via Negativa

"People who don't like their beliefs being laughed at shouldn't have such funny beliefs."
-- unknown
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Ricky
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Posted - 11/29/2005 :  16:21:31   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
Read no evil?

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov
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ronnywhite
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Posted - 11/29/2005 :  22:57:34   [Permalink]  Show Profile Send ronnywhite a Private Message
Why not? I blame Dr. Seusss for all my problems and deficiencies.

Ron White
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Ricky
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Posted - 11/30/2005 :  00:02:33   [Permalink]  Show Profile  Send Ricky an AOL message Send Ricky a Private Message
Such as spelling Dr. Seuss?

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.
- Isaac Asimov
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