![]() ![]() ![]() This may be hard to believe, but it seems there are a lot of people online who either don't get pointed humor, deliberately ignore it to serve their own ends or are too lazy to do research. Seuss from author of beloved children's books to free-speech martyr. Walker then walks us through the strange digital path that took Dr. The article then devolved into me decoding the supposed sexual subtexts in Treasure Island and, yes, Green Eggs and Ham. ![]() Way back in 2002, I wrote a satiric Banned Books Week column that mocked the nation's prigs by suggesting they try to pull something new off the nation's school shelves. Jesse Walker, the books editor for Reason magazine and a free-speech advocate, writes that if you want to blame somebody, start with him - though the real culprits are people on the Internet who don't understand satire: How did that happen? We may have an answer. Seuss' Green Eggs and Ham frequently crops up on lists of banned books, even though there's no clear evidence it's ever been outlawed in the USA. ![]()
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