It's Banned Books week...

[beetsnotbeats]

Originally posted by Brian Wallace:
  I never understood the furor over banned books.  Public/Private schools have a right to restrict what's in their libraries.  Once you say all those books are OK, it will lead to others...it's a slippery slope.  It's a waste of time.  Pick your battles.  They're not BURNING books (cue someone saying that Bush will soon advocate THAT) or even telling them they can't read them.  They're just telling them they can't check them out of the school library.  Big deal.  This isn't a huge censorship issue.  I couldn't check out Judy Blume books at my school library.  I couldn't read Hustler either.  Never harmed me.  It didn't cause me to set my alarm at times that don't end in 0 or 5 or insist that my food not touch.
 
 Brian

And then I read this:
 
 School District Halts Shakespeare Production
 

[Bombay Chutney]

Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
  And then I read this:
 
 School District Halts Shakespeare Production
 

I don't know...It's not hard to argue that a show featuring penis jokes isn't really appropriate for a 6th grade field trip.  Of course, it's the school's fault for not knowing about the content in the first place.
 
 I'd also have a hard time justifying why Madonna's   Sex should be in a public school library.

[TheDirector217]

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
  I'd also have a hard time justifying why Madonna's   Sex should be in a public school library.

So those horny fucks have something to beat off, too.  Duh.     :roll:
 
 They gotta do something to stop girls' locker room panty raids . . .

[Brian_Wallace]

Originally posted by Bombay Chutney:
  I'd also have a hard time justifying why Madonna's   Sex should be in a public school library.

I finally clicked on that link.  There are public school libraries that have Madonna's SEX in it!?!?!?!?  Are you SERIOUS?!  Why don't they just have "Deep Throat" in the Videotape section?  That's got to be a joke.  I can't fathom a public school having Madonna's SEX book in circulation.  If my school had that book, I'd never have left the library.
 
 Brian
 
 P.S.  Howard Stern's "Private Parts?"  Why don't they just have back issues of Penthouse from the 70's?  It's a big jump from Judy Blume to Stern's lesbian fantasies.

[vansmack]

Originally posted by Brian Wallace:
  I never understood the books.  

We know.

[TheDirector217]

Originally posted by Brian Wallace:
  It's a big jump from Judy Blume to Stern's lesbian fantasies.

Somebody already beat you to the punch.  It's called Diary Of Anne Frank . . .