"No matter how paranoid or conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine." - - - William Blum

November 29, 2005

The F-Word Brigade

In Overland Park, Kansas, a group known as Citizens for Literary Standards in Schools, which describes itself as a group of like-minded parents who are concerned with the content and quality of many of the books assigned as required reading in our public schools, has a list of 30 literature books that it has classified as The Blue Valley F-List.

Why do I mention this? Well, because, get this: for each book they LIST ALL THE PROFANITY and reprint samples of the passages they consider to be obscene! I swear, sometimes Christian Fundamentalists can be funnier than dirt. Oh, and it's a great example of the "righteous" attempting to exert control over thought. Anyway, check it out, because they have put a lot of effort into this, in spite of its obvious foray into censorship.

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