How Do You Say “Closed Mind” in Japanese?
Add this to Michael Stephen’s “not even Library 1.0″ meme:
Suburban LA County Pulls Manga Text from Libraries
Bill Postmus, Chairman of the Board of Supervisors of suburban San Bernadino County, California, has ordered the county’s libraries to remove the scholarly text Manga: Sixty Years of Japanese Comics from circulation. He proudly announced the move, calling the book “obscene comics,” on the county’s Website, saying, “That book is absolutely inappropriate for a public library and as soon as I was made aware of it yesterday, I ordered it to be removed immediately.”
“Obscene comics”? Yeesh! “You crazy kids with your long hair and rock music!”
