What If Shakespeare Was Bi?
Great post by Mark Ganek, on Alabama's attempts to keep books out of its schools:

Alabama has once again seized the educational initiative, despite being ranked 50th in the country in per pupil spending. A state representative recently introduced a bill that would have taken a decisive and innovative step toward helping the beleaguered students: fewer books. Because if you don't know you don't know it, it's pretty much the same as knowing it.

The bill would have prohibited public schools from buying any books with gay characters, gay themes, or gay authors. To an ordinary person, determining whether the author of a book on, say, the history of chemistry is gay is quite difficult, so I have developed a fool-proof questionnaire that can be sent to all authors before buying their books.

Question 1: Are you gay?

Question 2: No, really. Are you?

Question 3: C'mon. Seriously.

Sadly, the bill failed, perhaps because the Alabama legislature is busy with the three anti-evolution bills that have been introduced this year alone. I think it is important to note that open debate thrives in Alabama classrooms, and students are encouraged to develop their own opinions about whether evolution or homosexuality is worse.

Further obscenity follows at the above link. And no, sorry, not the titillating kind.