Entertainment For Lively Minds
Burn the Witch!!
Posted by Futurenoir on 30 September 2009 - 5:38pm.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8282356.stm
It seems that Harry Potter author JK Rowling was denied a top USA award, the Presidential Medal Of Freedom, because some members of the Bush administration believed her books promoted witchcraft and sorcery, according to a book published by one of GW Bush's speech writers.
Now, correct me if I'm wrong, when I looked at the date on my watch this morning, I could swear it read 2009.
And to think these people had their fingers on the nuclear button for eight years.
I'm amazed we are all still here.
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Not because
she write vastly over-analysed over-exposed children books inexplicably read by adults who should know better then?
Hey
a lot of people over here won't let their children read them for the same reason. It's bonkers Godists we're talking about, obviously, which pretty much sums up the American right too.
A friend of mine spent her early 20's catching up with Buffy The Vampire Slayer becasue her parents banned it from their house. Demons, you see.
I had very similar thoughts yesterday
When reading this astonishing letter from Nixon to Reagan on my new favourite oddities website.
Every other president before and now since Chimpy McFlightsuit was just in another league. It wasn't necessarily a much nicer league, but still - they meant business, not delusional nonsense.
'Ello, little ol' lady
The inclusion of Fenella the Kettle Witch meant that "Chorlton and the Wheelies" never even got a look-in at the Emmys.
That ain't a witch
THIS is a witch
As Danny Baker once said 'Hey baby, magic up another one like you and we can all go to bed"
I assumed
from the title that this was another Yoko Ono post