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gridloreAh, the Deep South. Land of ignorance, hatred, and fear. Also known as the Bible Belt.
Mississippi libraries ban 'Daily Show' book
GULFPORT, Mississippi (AP) -- Library officials in two southern Mississippi counties have banned Jon Stewart's best-selling "America (The Book)" over the satirical textbook's nude depictions of the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices.
"I've been a librarian for 40 years and this is the only book I've objected to so strongly that I wouldn't allow it to circulate," said Robert Willits, director of the Jackson-George Regional Library System of eight libraries in Jackson and George counties.
"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, do they have Gray's Anatomy on the shelves? How about National Geographic? Lynne Cheney's lesbian thriller Sisters? How about Bill O'Reilly's potboiler Those Who Trespass : A Novel of Television and Murder? Both of these books feature graphic sex.
Grumble. We should have let the South go in 1860. Slavery would have ended under pressure from the British and French, and today the CSA would be a third world cesshole.
Mississippi libraries ban 'Daily Show' book
GULFPORT, Mississippi (AP) -- Library officials in two southern Mississippi counties have banned Jon Stewart's best-selling "America (The Book)" over the satirical textbook's nude depictions of the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices.
"I've been a librarian for 40 years and this is the only book I've objected to so strongly that I wouldn't allow it to circulate," said Robert Willits, director of the Jackson-George Regional Library System of eight libraries in Jackson and George counties.
"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, do they have Gray's Anatomy on the shelves? How about National Geographic? Lynne Cheney's lesbian thriller Sisters? How about Bill O'Reilly's potboiler Those Who Trespass : A Novel of Television and Murder? Both of these books feature graphic sex.
Grumble. We should have let the South go in 1860. Slavery would have ended under pressure from the British and French, and today the CSA would be a third world cesshole.
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Date: 10 Jan 2005 20:05 (UTC)I'm ashamed to live in a red state, don't get me wrong. Still, there's a lot of good things about the South, things I hope survive these last, violent death throes of fundamentalist Crosstianity and Paulism.
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Date: 10 Jan 2005 21:45 (UTC)I don't agree with their decision, but I don't think any of the titles you listed fall under the same category, quite -- America isn't using the nude pictures to educate, like Gray's and Nat'l Geographic, and I doubt the other's have graphic illustrations, though I'm not familiar with them.
The do have the O'Reilly in the catalog, though not the Cheney.
Their website is here: http://www.jgrl.lib.ms.us/
Amusingly, that system includes the first library I remember using, though probably not the first I actually went to. We move to that area when I was four, and moved away when I was not quite 9. It's where I learned to use microfiche (and microfilm, I think) -- IIRC, they had the catalog on fiche rather than cards, but it's been a looooong time. I rremember the summer reading programs fondly, though.
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Date: 11 Jan 2005 03:02 (UTC)