Two Twits For the Price of One

Not getting it:

"Even assuming these books don't violate the law, they are not nice books," [Robert Peters of Morality in Media] said. "If a typical mother invited neighborhood kids over, she wouldn't be leaving these books on her coffee table for the kids to peruse."

That's quite the standard for determining which books may be openly sold. By that measure, anything objectionable should also be removed from the local Barnes & Noble, and of course from amazon.com, where any websurfing teenager might otherwise just bump into a distressing picture of, say, a dollar bill shaped like a cooter (probably safe for work unless you work for Morality in Media or the FCC).

[Concerned mom Marci] Milfs doesn't believe the books [that she was horrified to find at Urban Outfitters] should be seen by children. "It's not freedom of speech," she said. "It's selling adult books to teenagers."

Thanks for that scholarly correction regarding the First Amendment, Marci.

By the way, in case I happen to object to reading the vulgar last name Milfs in the newspaper, is there anywhere I can object?

If I were the manager of that Urban Outfitters, I'd be very publicly selling that T-shirt at right for a while, just for kicks.

Comments

[Hermes Then]

Freedom? Freedom in America just means allowing other people to be like "me," where "me" means provincial, narrow minded, untraveled, and poorly educated.

[Hunter]

Seriously? Milfs? You made that up, Rogier.

[Bedlam]

They do know what 'MILF' stands for dont they ?
Those T-shirts would sell like hotcakes !!