Monday, January 10, 2005

Robert Willits, "director of the Jackson-George Regional Library System of eight libraries in Jackson and George counties," speaks out about the Daily Show book:

"We're not an adult bookstore. Our entire collection is open to the entire public," Willits said. "If they had published the book without that one picture, that one page, we'd have the book."

I wonder if they have censored pictures of Michelangelo's David, or refuse to allow Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five to circulate (it has a line drawing of boobies--hee hee).

Since when do public libraries decide what pages in a book are acceptable? Are we going back to banning On the Road and Huck Finn because it will put "bad ideas" in kids' heads?

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