December 2nd, 2008 at 17:00 by Shawn Lindseth
When the powers that be ordered all American readings of Huckleberry Finn be cancelled, the US school system complied immediately. And for good reason too – the western world simply wasn’t ready for its interracial NAMBLA undertones.
You know who was ready though? Perverts.
But that’s besides the point.
Books still get banned you know. All the time – why just recently the British arm of Amazon.com reached into its electronic library, grabbed a tell-all work of non-fiction by the spine and thrashed it to and fro until the pages thereof had all fluttered loosely to the ground.
Rumour has it the book was pulled by the heavy hand of Tom Cruise who, for the record, denies any involvement in this literary scandal. His influence is implied because the novel’s topic is – you guessed it – Esoteric Christianity. Or whatever that thing is he’s deep into.