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The war against science in Kansas has now incurred a wrath against books. There were rumors of this war when a group of Blue Valley parents with too much spare time went after a school's reading list. Now the chairman of the Kansas Board of Education is brushing up on obscenity laws in what seems to be a move to make sure the kids of Kansas don't have access to minority authors and other filth.

Abrams wants to know whether state obscenity laws would apply to the books. He said he would like the presentation to occur at next month'’s board meeting.

"Some of the things passing for literature in our schools . . . I wouldn't want my kids reading it," he said. "I want to hear what state statute is."

And the thing that makes me laugh is that reading is one of the last activities you should ever worry about your kid doing. I have yet to hear of a case of something jumping out of a book and attacking a kid while they were reading. These local loons have a website if you'd like a few good reasons to bring back book burning. Ironically, the page features a young Black woman reading when it seems that they book they have the most problem with is Toni Morrison's "Beloved." Apparently, Morrison is just too uppity for a few Kansas parents that somehow make Oprah's (naive) book club look like a group of intellectuals.