Let's think about this for a second here. You've got four kids. You want to ban Harry Potter from schools. Wait–why?

Because you think it's a secret way to get kids interested in Wicca? Lady, I hate to tell you this–but I know some Wiccans. They can't make brooms fly or turn lead into gold or anything cool like that. If they can and they haven't hooked me up with some magic by now then I'm going to be pissed. But be that as it may.

It's fairly obvious that you can handle keeping your four kids from reading Harry Potter. So if you've got your kids covered, just exactly who are you trying to protect?

Ah, everyone else. It's not enough that you can affect your own children. You want to control what everyone else reads too. So not only do you think that you and your family are too weak to handle reading Harry Potter and come out with your faith unscathed…you think no one else can handle it either.

God forbid (no pun intended) that later in life they should get ahold of some Richard Dawkins or some Robert Anton Wilson or anything that might make them think. They're in danger from J.K. Rowling for crying out loud! Man, that must be a really sad spiritual place to be, don't you think?

Oh, and thank you Victoria Sweeny for having common sense and using it to protect the students of Gwinnett County from people like this. It's bad enough they should be in public schools without having this to deal with on top of everything else.

Found via Drudge.

My current understanding in regards to my previous adventure buying Advil Cold & Sinus is that there is a state law on the books here in Georgia that says you can't buy pseudoephedrine products without producing ID…

…from a drugstore.

Now, this would make sense, as I have since bought Advil Cold & Sinus from both a Kroger and a Publix and they didn't bat an eye.

So let's think about this for a second. If this is accurate–and I honestly haven't had time to check it out, but it certainly sounds plausible enough, this is government we're talking about here–then my assumption is that the law passed because our state government is so out of touch with reality they think that drugs are only available for sale from drug-stores. I honestly don't think any of my state reps have been inside a Kroger in recent memory.

So forget all I said about fake IDs and whatnot, if we assume that the baddies are buying this stuff in bulk, they just need to hit grocery stores and they're golden. And I'll only shop at CVS when absolutely necessary from now on.

So, again, barring this being bullshit, it's even more of a random bag search than I feared. If ever get five minutes free to play investigative reporter, I'll let you know for certain.