brain...exploding...from...irony...

I'm afraid I'm going to have to come out in support of Brother Alton on this one. There is no reason for any book that takes god's name in vain to be read and all such books should be banned. We could start with the bible.

When I was in high school in Detroit, J. D. Salinger's "Catcher in the Rye" was banned from the entire city (It had that fucking "f" word.) The book immediately sold out in all the bookstores in all the neighboring towns. Every kid I knew had a copy. I'm sure we would never have heard of or read the book without the ban. But we learned a very valuable lesson: How to get around stupid government actions. Isn't learning such lessons what school is for?(Does this post date me? Maybe I just heard about this from a great uncle.)