Wikipedia Jumps Shark
Posted on 07.14.07 by Widge @ 7:13 pm

I mean seriously.

I'm torn between the desire for one myself and the fear of what it might say.

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Gwinnett County Mother vs. Harry Potter
Posted on 10.07.06 by Widge @ 1:41 am

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.

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