Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Book Banning

I only bring this up because it's all over the law librarian listservs with shit like this:

Why such anger, such hostility, such downright nastiness? The whole thing is a hoax, a lie, put together and propagated by angry folks whose smear tactics appear to be bringing McCain and Palin more and more voters.

Charles Bronson would be proud: it’s a death wish.


and this

No wonder john mccain wont have any pics taken with his mommy (who actually looks more his age than his wife) as most people would think it was his wife....and then he would have to be saying over and over that's not my wife that's my mommy!!!!!!

Sorry for the digression....but do you think his mommy OR his Wife would ban all the books on the list?????


Of course librarians get worked up over potential censorship, as though anyone ever reads books. But there is a broader point to this story, and that's what a Palin vice presidency might look like. She has no regard for the separation of church and state, and worse, seems to favor the type of Bush/Cheney tests of loyalty that result in a dumbass like Alberto Gonzalez becoming AG and 90% of Justice being hired out of a law school run by Pat Robertson which will admit anyone.

When McCain and Obama became their parties' nominees I felt better about the state of our government, because I thought that either would take the separation of powers seriously and do business transparently and in the open, instead of constantly keeping the country on the verge of a constitutional crisis, as Bush has done. This is more than I can say for my feelings about Clinton and Romney. But now Palin is making me question this most basic piece of McCain's integrity. Would he, in fact, keep us in the land of pissing on congressional subpoenas in one giant, continuous stream of putrid executive urine for four or eight years?

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