Janitor reprimanded for reading "offensive book"

According to the above article, the janitor, Keith John Sampson, who is also a student at Purdue University, was reading Notre Dame vs. the Klan: How the Fighting Irish Defeated the Ku Klux Klan . For those of you who are curious, this is the book. A co-worker, based on the cover alone, was offended ( Read more... )

Yesterday I had my first real experience with Ignorant Fools and The Golden Compass. A man came in, and asked if he could return a copy his son had bought for his sister for Christmas. Here's the catch... Dad wasn't upset, they had gone to church, where the PASTOR had preached at them that the book is EVIL and, you had better not read this filth ( Read more... )

I was just thinking how lucky I am not to be going through the delightful corporate rollercoaster that some of our sistren and brethren in the UK are experiencing, and how much it must suck even more not to be able to rant about it here amongst collegues due to the prying eyes of corporate sum'biches. (My boss was a union boss before starting the ( Read more... )

So, I don't know how many of you may be familiar with this story, but here goes.

I work at Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium, in Vancouver, BC.

Yes. THAT Little Sister's Book and Art Emporium ( Read more... )

Houston man wants Fahrenheit 451 banned from schools' reading list"

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you, sir, are quite frankly one of the most ignorant people i can think of today. what a blessedly brilliant idea to mention that you have never read this book yet you can claim it has all sorts of filth. enlighten me some more, oh grand professor of literature ( Read more... )

I don't believe in censorship of any sort, but today I had a bit of a dilemma. A mother and daughter came through my line today, the daughter was around nine or ten. The daughter had picked out the awesomely bad Flowers in the Attic by the dead but prolific V.C. Andrews. This is a pulp masterpiece of horrible splendor. Now, when a younger person ( Read more... )

B@rnes And N0ble Bullsh*t ( Read more... )

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It's a shame the cards are 25 dollars now...though that priest COULD be a senior ^_^

Bleach-blonde fake-tan Customer: "I'm looking for perineums."

Me: "Uh.. flowersCustomer: (giving me a no-shit look) "..yeah ( Read more... )

Hers's a good topic to bring up with your managers tomorrow ( Read more... )