From the "NEWS" screen on America Online

Susan Patron, author of "The Higher Power of Lucky," said the word "scrotum" is "one of those words that's so interesting because of the sound of the word."

Authors of children's books sometimes sneak in a single touchy word or paragraph, leaving librarians to choose whether to ban an entire book over one offending phrase.... Yet there it is on the first page of “The Higher Power of Lucky,” by Susan Patron, this year’s winner of the Newbery Medal, the most prestigious award in children’s literature. The book’s heroine, a scrappy 10-year-old orphan named Lucky Trimble, hears the word through a hole in a wall when another character says he saw a rattlesnake bite his dog, Roy, on the scrotum.

“Scrotum sounded to Lucky like something green that comes up when you have the flu and cough too much,” the book continues. “It sounded medical and secret, but also important.”

The inclusion of the word has shocked some school librarians, who have pledged to ban the book from elementary schools, and reopened the debate over what constitutes acceptable content in children’s books. The controversy was first reported by Publishers Weekly, a trade magazine.

On electronic mailing lists like Librarian.net, dozens of literary blogs and pages on the social-networking site LiveJournal, teachers, authors and school librarians took sides over the book. Librarians from all over the country, including Missoula, Mont.; upstate New York; Central Pennsylvania; and Portland, Ore., weighed in, questioning the role of the librarian when selecting — or censoring, some argued — literature for children.

“This book included what I call a Howard Stern-type shock treatment just to see how far they could push the envelope, but they didn’t have the children in mind,” Dana Nilsson, a teacher and librarian in Durango, Colo., wrote on LM_Net, a mailing list that reaches more than 16,000 school librarians. “How very sad.”

Total IDIOCY....

Why am I even wasting my time with this shit?

Good question.

I guess I'm doing it to call attention to the fact

That the American people are just a bunch of PETTY, ILLITERATE ASSHOLES.

Many school Libraries have even BANNED this book!

You BELIEVE this shit?

Read the reviews and an excerpt from the book,

And see if you find it SO OBJECTIONABLE

That you would waste your time making a stink over it.

Show the Nazi ASSHOLES among us that banning a book....

Will only DEFEAT the objective of the ban.

So if you value your "freedom of speech" so-called,

Use the above link to buy the book from Amazon.

ONLY in America!

The world is laughing its ASS off!

Jesus said:

Talk about straining at gnats!

Gimme' a break!

In response to all of the idiocy on the blogosphere on this subject, I wasted an hour or so of my valuable time posting the following into about 40 or 50 "threads", in addition to responding to about 100 bloggers with copies of the message to their email boxes.

In a country that has seen TERRORIST ATTACKS, I find it amazing that people have nothing better to do than to PRETEND their kids have minds as pure as the driven snow - like they never heard the word "scrotum" before. Well, shit - HALF (or almost half) the human beings on the planet have one, so what the hell is it exactly that you call that thing that keeps your balls warm and toasty?

I know....

we call it a "Nut Sack".

Please, assholes....

GET A LIFE!

(I don't believe I'm wasting my time blogging this idiocy).

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SO THERE!!!
NEEEYAAHH!!

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