Irony 451: The Temperature at Which Rational Thought Burns

Hoo boy. This one boggles the mind from ALL ANGLES. You may wanna take a moment before you read this to gather your thoughts.

Okay. Ready? Student in a high school in Conroe, Texas gets assigned a book to read. She gets a few pages in, decides she doesn't like the stuff it is depicting and complains to her daddy. Daddy then complains to the school. Kid is given an alternative reading assignment, but that apparently is not enough for daddy or for kid. They start campaigning for the school to ban the book in question from their curriculum.

The book? Fahrenheit 451.

For those playing the home game, Fahrenheit is Ray Bradbury's classic about a world where all books are banned and critical thought is suppressed.

Daddy, who apparently either has no understanding of the subject of the book or of the concept of irony, is asked in an interview what exactly makes the content objectionable. "With God's name in vain being in there, that's the number one reason. There's no reason for it being read."

Oh, and the reading was assigned to the students on BANNED BOOKS WEEK.

Sit down and let the headache go away. Don't worry. These folks are in Texas. If you are currently in the continental United States, the odds are 49 out of 50 that you are not in the same state that they are. Thusly, there is little chance that your own I.Q. will decrease via the process of intellectual osmosis.

And for those who DO live in Texas, simply acquire a copy of Fahrenheit 451 and keep it on your person at all times. This way, if Daddy or Kid are in your general vicinity, you can probably repel them by merely holding it up, thus saving yourself from prolonged exposure.

What? Don't believe me? Check it out for yourself!