That'll Convince Them

Some folks in Loudoun don't want public library funds to be spent on R-rated DVDs. I think they're wrong. So does the Post editorial board -- but they're not this wrong:

THE STARCHY schoolmarms and would-be censors who hold sway on Loudoun County's Board of Supervisors have pronounced themselves opposed to spending public money to stock R-rated DVDs in the public libraries. Luckily, these Guardians of the True G-Rating do not call the shots at the county's seven library branches when it comes to determining acquisitions policy; the county's library board does that, and, being independent, it wisely decided to ignore the priggish directive from on high. Still, the supervisors, whose fusty tastes evidently run to "Lassie" reruns, or, in their racier moods, the latest installment of "Wallace & Gromit," do write the checks that keep the libraries in business. So, for argument's sake, let's consider the merits of their Puritanism....

It seems that what the supervisors really object to is choice. Since burning books is beyond the pale, they would resort to sanitizing the DVD shelves....

Can't wait to read the next good-government editorial about cooling partisan rhetoric.