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Florida School Board Bans Book about Book Bans

—The Tallahassee Democrat about the Indian River County School Board having their heads so far up their ass that they are Klein Bottles

So, they ban books, and then they ban books that discuss banning books, because that might lead to reading banned books, then they will ban book about books about banning books ………

Rinse, lather, repeat, and eventually all we are left with is video of George W. reading My Pet Goat.*

I find it hard to imagine that this could get any more absurd, but I put that down to my lack of imagination.  I am sure it will become even more absurd.

Florida, man! 

School officials here have banned a book about book banning.

The School Board last month voted to remove "Ban This Book" by Alan Gratz from its shelves, overruling its own district book-review committee's decision to keep it.

The children's novel follows a fictional fourth grader who creates a secret banned books locker library after her school board pulled a multitude of titles off the shelves.

School Board members said they disliked how it referenced other books that had been removed from schools and accused it of "teaching rebellion of school board authority," as described in the formal motion to oust it.

The book, which had been in two Indian River County elementary schools and a middle school, was challenged by Jennifer Pippin, president of the local chapter of Moms for Liberty, a national conservative group that has become one of the loudest advocates for removing books they deem inappropriate.

President a local chapter of Moms for Liberty? Who is she and her husband having a menage a trois with?

The book has also been challenged at least one other time in Florida, in Clay County, but school officials there decided to keep it in circulation.

Gratz, its author, called the Indian River County decision "incredibly ironic."

I would call it profoundly absurd, to the degree that I would expect the school board members to turn into rhinoceroses.  (The rhinoceros is actually an allegory for fascism in the play of that name, so in a very real way, they already have turned into rhinoceroses.) 

Can we please give Florida back to Spain?

^*Yes, I know that the book that Bush was reading as the planes hit the towers was actually, The Pet Goat, but we are talking about the meme here, baby.