Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 04, 2024

How about sneaking into people’s beds at night? They will assume they fell asleep reading the books and feel obliged to finish them.

Among the books being banned are the Bible, because it has words like “adultery” and “d@mnation,” and the Dictionary, because it has all the words of the English language including the bad ones.

OMFG!!!! Looks like books everywhere will to find a way to get revenge on Stephan Pastis for exposing their evil conspiracy this whole time that they had since printing presses were invented in the Middle Ages!!!! Whoa!!!! Dan aka…

1984 is one of the books that Texas is banning. Why? it doesn’t mention gays, drag shows or diversity.

Tsars and dictators etc do that to stifle education. Expect more after 20 Jan 2025

I sort of wish books would do that because I need to catch up on my reading.

The book-banners claim they’re protecting children, but this is really about controlling them…

I would just a soon not had been forced to read the assigned books in high school and college.

Would the purple book be considered a book binder?

All they have to do is get King James, Moffatt and Byington to change the word “adultery” to The Hokey Pokey" and they got it made…. Thou shalt not commit The Hokey Pokey."

What’s the point of banning books that Dick and Jane don’t know how to read?

That’s some pretty bad books in the last panel, miscreants from the library I’ll bet!

The real reason is because it’s dated. It’s too old to be relevant.

I think the philosophy is; ‘I refuse to open my mind to facts, reason, or truth, and I DEMAND that everyone else do the same!’

Walking talking books? Ah they is must be fiction eh.

No body is banning books.

That is not 1984, it’s Animal Farm

How do you know you don’t like a book if you haven’t read it?

I still have my copy of Catcher in the Rye. Come pry it from my collection!

Maggot types don’t want anybody to read what they don’t agree with. Re: Censorship in Nazi Germany.

What is wrong with people these days? If you don’t like the book, DO NOT READ IT!!

1974 – the middle school librarian sent a letter to parents stating that Stephen King’s “Carrie” was not appropriate reading for young ladies. Within a week we all had it tucked into our book bags and were reading it in study hall.

It’s not that liberals are ignorant. It is just that they know so much that isn’t true. >

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ALERT: TRIGGERING STRIP INCOMING

People ban books because they’re just a bunch of whiny, ignorant, self righteous jerks who have nothing better to do, except complain about everything.

Some deluded fools believe books are a bigger threat to schoolkids than are guns.

Amazing how two books with no faces can look genuinely disappointed!

Did they ban Fahrenheit 451 too? (snicker) ;D

Because there are books kids should not be reading.

Goat has unlocked the conservative mind.

Book em Dano!

Because it prophesied the beginning of another Trump administration.

Book banning should be banned.

Making book availability age appropriate is not the same as banning a book. However, if any state is actually really banning a book i would not agree with it.

Acceptable: I can’t do X because my religion says not to.

Unacceptable: YOU can’t do X because my religion says not to.

No one is trying to ban books for adults. Some books, however, are not appropriate for younger children, and thus should not be in elementary school libraries. If parents want their children to have them, Amazon will oblige.

exactly, stephan! if people don’t want their kids reading certain books, don’t let them…but don’t take them away from other people’s kids.

I think that was Animal Farm, not 1984

That’s my philosophy for many things: don’t like a book don’t read it. Don’t agree with abortion dont have one. Against same sex marriage don’t participate in that.

Ideas. They want make sure that the li’l childs don’t get ideas…..

Only the nasty books make you read them.

i grew up in the great state of RI, and most of the banned books were required freshman high school reading, like 1984…

I suppose “You can’t judge a book by its cover” would be an understatement by this point.

I read what I want to read. If you don’t like it, stay away from my bookcases and my kindle!

The objective should merely be to make availability of explicit literature age appropriate.

Those books have seen No Country For Old Men

Animal Farm & 1984 are what we’re becoming. Have you read them? Do you remember?

If you can buy it, it ain’t banned. Some books are inappropriate for children. I would describe the content here but I would be censored. Ironic, huh?

Goat has a point. Pastis has to end it weird though.

What people don’t seem to understand or perhaps want to understand is that most childeren don’t learn about things like homosexuality and other sexual things from reading about it. They hear and observe adults talking (including their parents), or talk to their equally misinformed peers. I’m 81 years old and can remember hearing about “h0m0s” (usually as a pejorative) etc. when I was in elememtary school which was well before any of the current books under discussion now were even written.

Kind of like school where the teachers make a book reading assignment but you can’t force the kids to read it. That’s why God invented Cliff’s Notes (before the internet, of course).

The books do need a new plan. Clearly they’re losing!

The master plan is all detailed in Mein Kampf.

Goat is idealistic, but idealistic solutions mean nothing to reactionaries. The problem is that the banners are afraid of ideas that they fear getting into other people’s head- kids’ heads especially. They really, truly, naively and foolishly believe that they can make the bogeymen they fear go away if no one ever hears or reads about them.

In Tamika Flynn’s hands, books become lethal weapons.

Some books have content the controlling powers don’t you to see so they are banned. Do we need to ban computers too?

Books are culled from libraries all the time to make room for other books. Sad, but true.

Freedom of speech,

freedom of the press

All you loons nuts and whack jobs could shove it

Sounds like one of trumps school chums nut job Ron desatines at work again!

Unfortunately, this only represents an incomplete picture of the story. I don’t support banning books, but I do support not having some material available for children without controls over the age of access.

Book bans, proof that new idiots are being born all the time.

People still read books? Wow!

A-HA!! Just as I thought!!

Can we ban ‘Art Of The Deal’?

I hear that Floridumb is now banning the Colgate Dictionaries. The governor really wants the residents to forever remain ignorant

LOLOL — Good one Stephan!

While I am against banning books from public access, I do believe that there are a select number of books we should take a more active approach in parental guidance. Any book I read through (before my kids get their hands on it) will be checked for appropriateness. If something is questionable, yet being assigned as part of the literary curriculum, I will at least sit down with my kids and guide them through the comprehension. I am more concerned that the kid isn’t deeply disturbed or traumatized by what they take in. But if they are aware it’s just a book and doesn’t reflect their own personal beliefs, I’ll be at least assured reading something won’t lead them to influence bad behavior.

Again, maybe I’m just jumping to conclusions too soon. We don’t give our own kids the credit to their intelligence and conscience they have. I’m still amazed at their wisdom, which far exceeds us older folks.

Not at my house lately…..

“They” are not “banning” books. “They” are removing inappropriate materials from school libraries. If you want your children to be able to read such material, go to your local public library to check such materials out. If the public library doesn’t have what you are looking for, request an Inter-Library-Loan. If the public library refuses, get on Amazon and order it yourself. Geeze, use your brains for once!

Fahrenheit 451

Sheer nonsense, but that does make it amusing.

In our elementary school the library had PT 109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. Kennedy (PT-109 for short).

They had the copies behind the check-out desk & you needed a note from your parents to check it out.

Banning books is uncomfortably but not surprisingly close to burning books.

Let’s send Ron De Santis and Jim Abbott to the knackers.

“How to make bombs” “How to torture other people” “hot to kill someone and get away with it” “subplots of any Stephen King book involving minors and adult situations” ..yeah, those books SHOULD be banned, as well as anything promoting child perversions, sexual situations (IT, Ritual of Chud) etc etc.

Only state officials that listen to the idiots.

People never learn, do they? Has banning books ever really accomplished anything?