Two notable quotes from that story: “Many people believe she did nothing wrong.” Where have we heard that phrase before? And referring to your own supporters as America after Pearl Harbor is weird: "I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve,”
I’m confused (though not, I think, as confused as the woman in the story.) Is there no way for a school board member to have legitimate access to the school library? and presuming that there is, why didn’t she use that instead?
thorny – has never been on a school board – locust
I imagine one can ask the Principal. Telling people you’re there for a meeting, then sneaking into the closed library with a flashlight is probably not the right way to do it.
Agreed. I was imagining contacting the librarian and setting up an appointment for a tour. Presumably the librarian could find the light switches.
Ahhh, but, you see, how can she really conduct a Bad Books fishing expedition if “they” have advance knowledge she is coming and can be looking over her shoulder.
Oh, Karen, Karen, I can only hope what you have done is awaken the kids to that there are “interesting books” in the library and filled them with the resolve to read them…
I’ve been seriously hoping that that will be the result of all this banning fervor.
Exactly. Have these people never heard of “the attraction of prohibition”?
“I don’t understand why you’re always so curious about my Forbidden Closet of Mysteries.”
Clearly she should have used the Cloak of Invisibility, and then snuck into the Restricted Section. If only she’d have been allowed to read the Harry Potter novels she would have known this.
It would have been better in the first person, “Many people believe I did nothing wrong”.
What caught my attention was this:
“You’re in there an hour and 20 minutes and you didn’t think to look along the wall for a light switch?” trustee Billy Emblerly asked.
“It would be a waste of my time to look around for an hour and 20 minutes looking for a light switch,” Lowery replied.
Except that you’d be looking for a light switch for 30 seconds, the remainder of the time you’d be able to snoop around more efficiently. But she doesn’t seem to understand what a ‘waste of time’ is.
Or maybe it routinely takes her hours to find light switches.
I’ve always heard it as “the allure of the forbidden”.
Well, she is quite the dim bulb.
She was clearly looking for the book “Light Switches: How to Identify Their Habitats and Utilize Them.”
Jesus, how fucking stupid is she? That’s next level stupid.
ISTR there were these dudes in the early days of the CFSG administration – I think they had names like “Priebus” and “Bannon” – who struggled with getting light into the West Wing area.
I have just ordered a t-shirt that says “Live your life so that if it was a book Florida would ban it.”
Not surprising since it would have made Steven Miller burst into flame.
OOo from where?
It was from a site that popped up on my Facebook page, it’s called Book Lovers.
Also several varieties thereof on Amazon.
I’m pitting myself for reading this story. Now I can’t unthink or unsee it! If you don’t want to look, it’s about a 3-inch live parasitic worm that was removed from a woman’s brain. Ugh ugh ugh! Regret! I have to go scrub my brain.
It’s one thing to run on to the field during a game. Stupid, but routine stupid. This is a bit over the top stupid.