Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 18, 2022

Sponsored by your local school board ( controlled by fanatics of some kind )

you gotta know how to appeal the Market.

Most books on so called Banned lists are pretentious crap I find unreadable, like Catcher in the Rye.

If 2 bookstore owners worked together, one could feature books banned by liberals and the other would feature books banned by conservatives.

The beauty of this is that even the people who want to burn the book need to go buy a copy to burn.

I guess it can be said that “forbidden fruits are always sweeter”.;-D

Like moths to the flame

The subtitle of the store is The Maus House.

Works for music too! Ask Miami based “Two Live Crew”! Their album sales skyrocketed after Tipper Gore and FL governor Bob Martinez went after the Crew for using obscene lyrics…..

Ban them and they will come.

And how many albums did the PMRC sell?

And how many books did the PMRC sell?

Certainly that worked for Maus.

Sigh! Of mice and men… wonder how many mockingbirds got killed in this hideous banning business?!?

Advertising and Marketing is everything.

I know of a book that has all sorts of depraved stories in it. Lust, incest, slavery, debauchery, murder, Wishes of bestiality, voyeurism, flashing, you name it. It’s been a best seller for centuries.

Scene from a prequel to Fahrenheit 451?

An ancient remedy for poor sales: appeal to the lowest level of human nature and add a little misinformation. TV and the pols have been doing it for years .

I don’t understand why some people insist on banning the Harry Potter series. It’s as much about witchcraft as Star Wars is about rocket science.

Ha!

When “The Life of Brian” came out, nuns picketing the movie theaters had the same effect. Everyone wanted to see what all the fuss was about.

That’s just fuel for the fire.

When you ban books you should consider the company you are in (this from Germany, where the books not only were banned but burned. They all came back after the nazi pest was gone). Banning of books almost always comes from the far right or the the righteous religious (which sometimes has a huge overlap).

Our local library used to put up an annual display of banned books during “Banned Books Month.” I guess they still do, but COVID cut my visitation back severely…

I worked at the local library. Every year they would make a big deal about banned books. At the same time their purchasing preferences were basically banning books they didn’t agree with.

GREAT sales tactic. When the tight-@$$ Conservatives try to ban or boycott something, sales ALWAYS go up! It worked for Maus, it worked for Disney, and it has worked other multiple times.

Thank God for Republicans. Without them, we would not know what books to burn.

Does the Roman Catholic Diocese still publish The Tablet and does it still contain The Index which tells people what books and movies they are allowed to read and see? If so, I think they found new editors.

https://library.loras.edu/bannedliterature/index – The GOP has been around for about 500 years.

I am so glad that the exceptionally moral GOP is looking out for the well-being of our souls. After all, they are Holier-than-liberals.

After a-holes tried to ban The Maus That Roared, his publishers now want to ban online free copies and downloads. “Never let the bastards get you down” gets harder and harder and harder when the SOB’s keep tying anvils to your feet.

At the rate some states and communities are going, all books are going to end up banned. Shades of Fahrenheit 451.

Vis ‘Bootleg’ by CCR.

Making book, on the panic culture.

I remember when an author could get rocketed to the top of the best seller list by being “Banned in Boston”. The Minneapolis Phone book could become a best seller if it was “Banned in Boston”. …sheesh

Nothing like saying you can’t have something to stimulate interest.

There is that.

most excellent

Forbidden fruit is always the tastiest.

Reminds me of the sensation created by the release of Naked Came the Stranger by “Penelope Ashe” in 1969. That was hilarious.

Since you can get boot-legged copies of anything, it doesn’t make sense to ban anything now. I’m for treating people like adults.

All he needs is a single copy of Dr. Seuss’s On Beyond Zebra. Such a stupid move by people who had nothing better to do.

Excellent marketing and a public service all rolled into one!

“Necessity is the mother of invention”……..

In public they want to burn those books, but in private they read those banned books…

Do you suppose those book-banning politicians are secretly invested in the publishers? Naw, couldn’t happen, right?

Mark your calendars: Banned Books Week is September 18-24 this year (sponsored by the American Library Association).

I READ BANNED BOOKS

I would figure that the reason book stores are not making sales is because everyone can get it downloaded electronically

Banned Burnable Books Bookstore. Playing both sides of the fence.

You can only hope…….

Scandal is always is a best seller!

If we’re going to ban books,let’s start with THE ART Of THE DEAL.

Works every time

THE ART OF THE DEAL—-to repeat a famous quote—“Every word in it is a lie,including ‘and’ and ‘the’”>

The Texas GOP Primary Ballot has yes/no questions on stationing national guard troops at the southern border, 2 questions saying God should be in charge of law and not governments, and one saying only pro-white history should be taught in schools. I decided to run for god-appointed Texas ruler on the platform of putting troops at all of our borders to keep out Liberal/Marxists/Socialists from other states and banning all books except for a version of The Bible that God and I will edit. (I should win in a landslide).

Wiley Miller, will you marry me?

If parents wanting libraries to ban books they don’t want their kids to read(have they ever read the bible? it is chocked full of sex) then they are living in a fools world as every kid over 8 knows how to avoid parental controls on home computers and has viewed porn, which is widely available on the internet.

FYI: a Documentary on HBO said that the states that bought the most porn movies were located in the Bible belt.

It’s like real estate: location, location, location!

When I was a kid it was a prime incentive.

Little known factoid: before the end of WW II, a dozen or so titles were banned in Australia (of all places). There still are some banned titles, mostly because of what is held to be “indecency”, but most of the earlier bans (and later ones, too) have been lifted. But before 1945, the list of banned titles was a state secret. For obvious reasons: if people know that title is on the banned list, that will whet their appetite to procure and read it.

Seems to me that there was a brief episode in the comic strip Frazz recently where the elementary school teacher Mrs Olsen is handing out a list for summer reading, and cautions the students that they are absolutely forbidden to read items 6 and 11. I don’t think there was any dénouement, the joke was allowed to stand on its own.

More and more each day.

I would just be really, really wary of any guy who walks in with a pack of matches…

When some people want to burn books, I want to burn them.

Libraries are the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed.

Sir Francis Bacon

Good thing it wasn’t BAND BOOKS (go see Off the Mark)……

When “To Kill a Mockingbird” was banned in 8th grade, the first thing I did was get a copy and read it.

So the Republicans are helping small businesses?

Just buy directly from Southern school districts whose schoolboards are primarily white trash

One thing that seems to be a closely guarded secret is that children often don’t ‘pick up’ on things they read until they are ready to understand them, UNLESS adults make a really big deal about it. When adults go on and on about something, kids start looking for it. As a kid, I would pick out books at the library somewhat randomly, and sometimes the librarian would refuse to check them out for me. One of them was Battle Cry by Leon Uris (War and Peace was another). She said I was too young. (I was 10.) My mom checked it out and I read it, enjoying the story and deciding I wanted to be a Marine. I was really disappointed to find out that women weren’t allowed. (I also wanted to be a Nun after reading “A Nun’s Story”, even though I belonged to a different church). I reread the book when I was in college and was surprised about all the ‘stuff’ my 10-year-old brain had completely glossed over. Now if the librarian had told me I shouldn’t read it because it involved racism, homosexuality, elicit sex, etc. I sure would have read it differently; but my 10-year-old mind ignored all that and was caught up in the adventures and the comradeship displayed by the characters (I also liked the format — that there wasn’t just one main character).

You can’t fix stupid.

I wish we had an independent book seller here. Even the “used book” store is a chain…

All booksellers wear aprons like that, don’t they?

“Do you have “Lady Chatterley’s Lover?”

I once read about a woman taking orders at an evangelical college, who was given (along with a whole pile of other female deacons-in-training) a list of books that that did not ‘fit in’ with the doctrines to be espoused by that college. She had a high old time reading all the “banned books”; after she graduated, she moved from evangelicals to a more liberal area, and has never looked back.

List of books banned by governments https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_books_banned_by_governments

So that’s how you attract gullible people.