I usually erase the tags of the post I repost but the tags were funny. Fuck, these small minded people are starting to irritate me.
Cory Doctorow
POSTED AT 5:06 AM January 26, 2010
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SoCal school district bans the dictionary
Southern California's Menifee Union school district has banned the Merriam Webster's 10th edition from use in fourth and fifth grade classes, over this salacious definition of “oral sex”: “oral stimulation of the genitals”.
“It's hard to sit and read the dictionary, but we'll be looking to find other things of a graphic nature,” district spokeswoman Betti Cadmus told the paper.
via SoCal school district bans the dictionary Boing Boing.