Credit where credit's due

Fayetteville's a pretty progressive city, with the university and all. But like everyplace, we've got our fair share of wingnuts. Exhibit A: Laurie Taylor. The spook hasn't weighed in on this local controversy because the absence of any little caspers in the spookhouse prevents me from caring much. Cue the Demo-zette editorial page:

LAURIE TAYLOR is focused on words. She’s the Fayetteville parent who’s been leading the campaign to restrict access to books in school libraries. She finds objectionable words—along with pictures and attitudes—in some of the books in Fayetteville’s school libraries. She’s already persuaded the school board to put three books on restricted access. Now they’re only available to kids who have parental permission to read them. She’s formally challenged another book, and she says she’s got a list of about 70 others she wants reviewed for possible restrictions. Ms. Taylor has publicized excerpts from the books. They can be shocking. And often on the basis of those inflammatory excerpts, she’s rallied support from others with concerns that mirror hers. In the name of protecting her kids from books she finds distasteful, she’s unavoidably created obstacles for others who don’t feel the way she does.

As bloggers are wont to say, read the whole thing. It's one of the few things (maybe the only) on that page I've ever agreed with, but they got this one right.
Hat tip to this guy.