27 January, 2010

That sucks

It seems a book has been banned* by a US school district for containing 'sexually graphic' content.

Nothing new, but this time the book is a dictionary.

As a commenter at BoingBoing observes, the removal of this salacious text will oblige children to obtain a definition of 'oral sex' online instead. Far more educational.

*: To be fair, 'banned' may mean 'removed from shelves pending the formality of a review', but it should have been self-evident that the complaint was ludicrous, even to a parent named 'Randy Freeman'.