Librarians put the smack down on Jon Stewart!

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.

Additionally, Wal-Mart has declined to stock the book because of the page, which features the faces of the nine Supreme Court justices superimposed over naked bodies. The facing page has cutouts of the justices’ robes, complete with a caption asking readers to “restore their dignity by matching each justice with his or her respective robe.”

Hello wackos! This is SATIRE! Perhaps it isn't appropriate material for, say, a middle school library, but to ban it altogether from a public library is just a bunch of First Amendment violation crap! It's ONE page out of a brilliant, witty social and political commentary by a comic genius. I don't know what the Supremes think about it, but it is really quite amusing, as is the rest of the book. If you haven't seen it, go find it somewhere other than Wal-Mart or Mississippi. I promise you will laugh. A lot.

UPDATE: Apparently the librarian smack down has been lifted! Hooray! Kevin is quick on the draw today with this post.