You really can't swing a limp dick around the Interwebs these days without hitting some news about GOP vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
While we're looking forward to the Palin coverage dying down (hopefully along with her popularity), today BoingBoing brings us two wonderful little tidbits: one, the unfortunate cover of this children's book and two, the news that when Palin took office as mayor of Wasilla, AK, she approached her town librarian to find out how she could ban books from the library.
[Former Wasilla mayor] Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. “She asked the library how she could go about banning books,” he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. “The librarian was aghast.” The librarian, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn’t be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire her for not giving “full support” to the mayor.
Yes. Because books like "One, Two, Three Pull," can lead to things like teenage pregnancy. Oh, wait, she was concerned with language. Yeah, let's get rid of books so we can have better vocabularies.
[TIME via BoingBoing]
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