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My daughter, who is almost 16, informs me that there is this thing teenagers are into called "tumblir", and anyone who know of it would only be appalled that the two people are both human without superpowers.

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He wasn't ejected from the board meeting for his views.

Using "free speech" to prevent others from speaking must be vilified - at a minimum.

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Sounds like you wouldn't disrupt a public meeting until you were forcibly removed...

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You sit through meeting with jerks like this and then tell me a mild scolding is enough to shut them up (news flash: it isn't - they just feel emboldened because you aren't willing to enforce your own rules).

Cuff them, cite them, and throw them on the sidewalk with the rest of the trash.

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Again: "This fucking guy..." 5th time this week and it's only Wednesday.

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Rights don't infer you have to do anything except shout about how you have rights.

Doing things for real is really hard.

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I've WRITTEN better Letters to Penthouse (never published). Now I just make Poser porn on DeviantArt.com/

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Hey, sexxxy books got me to read <i>Even Cowgirls Got The Blues</i>. On the downside, it also got me to read stuff like <i>Kinflicks</i>.

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Found mine in the woods, like a REAL American!

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MMMPPH MM MMM MMPHH!

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Live free or ban books.

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His daughter is well protected from that horrible porn. At least until one of her friends shows her the internet.

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I used to work School Board Meetings, and the whole point of having the 2-minute public comment period is so that the Board is not sitting there until midnight while every whackaloon with an axe to grind blathers on about why an elementary school shouldn't have a Halloween Party because it's "satanic" or why a high school teacher should be fired because they once swore in class. Not to mention that he was already out of order per the School Board's own rules for public comment: "This time is not intended for Q&A. Questions about programs/practices may be directed to respective administrators during the school day." So yeah, the Board had every right to shut him down. Was the school in the wrong by not sending out the notice? Yep. But in the grand scale of wrongs, he's way further out there than the school.

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Yes, this book banning is SURE to work. No kid whose parents okay the reading will ever let a kid on the "no" list peep. That would be wrong.

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If I've understood this correctly, one parent objects to one passage found on one page of this book?

As a librarian, when confronted with a book challenge, we first ask the person who has objected to a specific work to read the entire thing.

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If he found this to be XXX, then his peashooter must have a hair tr!gger, IYKWIM.

Ladies, do <i>not</i>, I repeat: do <i>not</i> expose your ankles within I'd say six feet of this guy!

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