Banned Books Week

I'm a bit late to the Banned Books Week bandwagon, but in honor of the week, the Top 10 Most Challenged Books of 2004 courtesy and directly copied for the American Library Association:

1. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier--sexual content, offensive language, religious viewpoint, being unsuited ot age group and violence

2. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers--racism, offensive language, and violence

3. Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture by Michael A. Bellesiles--inaccuracy and political viewpoint

4. The Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey--offensive language and modeling bad behavior

5. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky--homosexuality, sexual content, and offensive language

6. What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones--sexual content and offensive language

7. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak--nudity and offensive language

8. King & King by Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland--homosexuality

9. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou--racism, homosexuality, sexual content, offensive language and unsuited to age group

10. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck--racism, offensive language and violence.

Remember, if you work yourself up into a moralistic rage and feel the need to burn some books please do the world a favor and burn Lauren Weisberger's The Devil Wears Prada. The literary world would be a better place without it.

Masturbating Judges

Today, I was reading the newspaper and there was one story that caught my eye.

It was about a judge that was being charged with indecent exposure because he allegedly liked to masturbate during courtroom procedures.

He began masturbating during witness testimony and then moved on to doing it at any old time.

I'm fascinated by this story.

Was the witness testimony so erotic that he had to whip it out?

Or, was he just bored?

Today, I was sitting in the teachers' lounge trying to enjoy my lunch of left-over pizza.

The topic of conversation: Wet Dreams.

Normally, I'm not opposed to wet dreams as a topic of conversation. However, the discussions put images in my head that will never go away and will require loads of therapy.