Thank you Pseu. There’s an odd thing about my satires. I start with something which is actually happening. Then take it to the silly but logical next step. Only, all too often, someone actually does it.

So it is with this satire. I suggested that someone could use a book-banning law to ban parts of the Bible. Now, in various news feeds this morning, I see that a parent in Salt Lake City, Utah has gotten the Davis School District to ban the Bible from its elementary and middle schools. It’s on the grounds that the Bible contains references to rape, incest, and violence. And that it’s pornographic, according to the definition in a newly-passed Utah state law.

Crimeny, it’s enough to make a person ask themselves why they bother being a satirist. I write something that’s absurd; next thing I know, someone’s actually doing it.