Reason # 87,456 why I hate this country:

GULFPORT, Mississippi (AP) -- Library officials in two southern Mississippi counties have banned Jon Stewart's best-selling "America (The Book)" over the satirical textbook's nude depictions of the nine U.S. Supreme Court justices.
"I've been a librarian for 40 years and this is the only book I've objected to so strongly that I wouldn't allow it to circulate," said Robert Willits, director of the Jackson-George Regional Library System of eight libraries in Jackson and George counties.

"We're not an adult bookstore. Our entire collection is open to the entire public," Willits said. "If they had published the book without that one picture, that one page, we'd have the book."

"Our libraries are not a trash bin for pornographic materials," Board member David Ogborn said.

PORNOGRAPHIC MATERIAL!?!?!? I don�t know how many of you make a habit of masturbating to naked pictures of shriveled up senior citizens, but I would venture a guess and say the market is probably pretty small. And those few people who do get off looking at their grandmothers naked I seriously doubt are looking for an outlet in Mississippi libraries. I�ve seen the book and I�ve seen the pictures, and believe me, they do more to squelch sexual arousal than they do to ignite it. It just boggles my mind how these people can be so fucking stupid. Pictures of naked old people?! PORNOGRPAHY! Michelangelo�s painting and sculptures? Purely and simply art! I�d be willing to bet my 401K that I could find books containing pictures of renaissance painting and sculpture in those very same libraries that are infinitely more arousing than seeing a naked picture of Sandra Day O�Connor�s flabby tits or William Rehnquist�s shriveled up 80 year old prick (I of course realize that the pictures aren�t REALLY of Sandra Day O�Connor�s tits and William Rehnquist�s prick, but you get the idea). Perhaps those on The Daily Show would have been better off having PAINTINGS of naked old people rather than photographs, because obviously, photographs are much more lurid, arousing and pornographic than paintings, right? I�m sure those in Mississippi feel that paintings depicting the young and beautiful Eve, with nothing but a fig leaf covering her twat, is perfectly OK. Personally, I�d much rather jerk off to a painting of Eve than a picture of a 74 year old woman. The fact that these people fail to see the irony of their actions is really sad.

Just as a foot note, after that news article was published, library officials in Mississippi were inundated with emails and phone calls, and the next day, they were forced to reversed their decision, and put the book back on their shelves.
And if you haven�t picked up a copy of the book, you definitely should. Not only is it fucking hilarious, it really does teach you about all of the sick and twisted ways in which this country operates. I would recommend the audio version of the book though- its much more humorous hearing Jon Stewart read it- but then of course you�ll deprive yourself of prime masturbation material as the now infamous nudie shots of the Justices isn�t in the audio book. So if you already have enough pictures of GMILFs (Grand Mothers I'd Like to Fuck), do yourself a favor and just pick up the audio version.

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