Here are two gems from the week:
via Cyclelicious by Yokota Fritz on 1/26/10
From Go Blue Ridge in North Caorlina:via Cyclelicious by Yokota Fritz on 1/26/10
Officials on the Town of Boone’s Greenway, Parks, and Gardens Committee will discuss the possibility of prohibiting bicycles and joggers on portions of the Greenway Trail at their regular meeting Tuesday evening.
And
via Boing Boing by Cory Doctorow on 1/26/10
Southern California's Menifee Union school district has banned the Merriam Webster's 10th edition from use in fourth and fifth grade classes, over this salacious definition of "oral sex": "oral stimulation of the genitals".
'Oral sex' definition prompts dictionary ban in US schools"It's hard to sit and read the dictionary, but we'll be looking to find other things of a graphic nature," district spokeswoman Betti Cadmus told the paper.
While some parents have praised the move - "[it's] a prestigious dictionary that's used in the Riverside County spelling bee, but I also imagine there are words in there of concern," said Randy Freeman - others have raised concerns. "It is not such a bad thing for a kid to have the wherewithal to go and look up a word he may have even heard on the playground," father Jason Rogers told local press. "You have to draw the line somewhere. What are they going to do next, pull encyclopaedias because they list parts of the human anatomy like the penis and vagina?"
Isn't that why some people look at the dictionary to begin with?
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poor kids - all they wanted was an answer teachers aren't allowed to give them and they're too embarrassed to ask their parents!
If YOU were in school and looked up oral sex, wouldn't you be totally grossed out rather than intrigued? Or, is that just what a girl would think...
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