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From: TimF	10/22/2008 11:38:57 AM
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A Brooklyn Librarian Is Fined for Promoting His Daughter’s Book nytimes.com Wednesday, October 22, 2008 The stupidist "ethics" prosecution in the history of the universe By TigerHawk at 10/22/2008 07:13:00 AM Fellow Princetonian Alison Leigh Cowan has uncovered the "zero tolerance" outrage of the month. A Brooklyn high school librarian donated a copy of his daughter's new book -- a well-reviewed graphic novelization of "Macbeth" -- to the school library and placed it on the library's "new books" table with a little sign that said "Best Book Ever Written." A totally understandable "proud father" move if there ever was one. So naturally he was hauled before New York City's Conflicts of Interest Board, fined $500, and forced to sign a confession. The librarian sadly un-donated his daughter's book and expunged it from the library's catalog. There are two stories here, one comic and the other tragic. The comedy is in the idea that New York City's "Conflicts of Interest Board" could not find anything more egregious to investigate than this father who is proud of his daughter. It is not as if he sold her books to parents. He put an obviously humorous sign under what is by all indications a meritorious new book that he had given to a public school library. No parent ever took Girl Scout cookie orders in a New York City office? The tragedy, of course, is that the petty little turds who rendered this decision have humiliated this man who is working for the children in New York's public schools. What possible lesson should come from this other than that New York government is a crushing bureaucratic combine? A link to the offending version "Macbeth" in question is below. According to a reviewer on Amazon, it is "far superior to Cliff Notes or the old Classic Comics" as a primer on the play. Get it for your kids and poke New York City's ethics inquisition in the eye! Permalink/Main 2 Comments: There was a short story I read years ago about a time when all law enforcement is taken over by robots. This works for about a day or so. The a robot arrests a police woman for who used a paper clip to make an emergency repair on her bra. She gets arrested for "illegal appropriation of state property". Before long everyone is in jail. Perhaps there is a reason science fiction gets so little respect from the liberal elite. By Anonymous tyree, at Wed Oct 22, 08:43:00 AM tigerhawk.blogspot.com

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