Monday, February 19, 2007
Talk to Your LIbrarian About Your Favorite Scrotum
I'm late to the conversation about librarians talking about banning a children's book because of its inclusion of the word "scrotum." My attitude about that is this: any librarian who contemplates banning any book for any reason obviously does not understand the code of good librarians. Librarians promote free speech and oppose censorship, not the other way around. If a librarian in my town suggested banning any book, including books that promote murder and mayhem and all manner of sick crap, I would demand the librarian be fired. I feel the same way about pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions for drugs they say contravene their religious beliefs.
4 comments:
As per usual, I'm simply amazed that this kind of controversy is cropping up in the Year 2007. How absurd that some people are still freaking out over "words". Isn't that more than just a little weird?
I'm with you, John. This madness simply must stop. I can not believe what has happened to our country in the past six years. It's a nightmare.
Hee! I thnk we may eclipse Britney Spears's bald head with our talk of scrotums! (Her head kind of looks like one lately...)
I had to do a double take at that title.
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