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I read "The Lorax" by Dr. Seuss yesterday evening to my 5-year-old. My wife had borrowed it from the library. I was expecting an amusing kid's book like "Green Eggs and Ham" (also by Seuss), but what I got was tiresome environmental, anti-business agit-prop. Ugh. Almost everyone on Amazon has given it 5 stars -- no wonder Obama is president.

I think the language in the book is dumb, too. Why invent words like "biggerer" (used repeatedly) instead of using the word "bigger".

It's too bad I need to screen children's books for political indoctrination. I wonder if there are sites where conservative parents have recommended books.

reaganaut1, Free Republic 82 Comments [8/10/2011 8:39:03 AM]
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Come on now-- I don't believe a stupid prick like this reads books to his children.

8/13/2011 6:29:48 PM

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That liar Lindsay

Remember kids, it's not political indoctrination if it's conservative.

8/14/2011 5:14:27 AM

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N. De Plume

Just found something that explains why environmentalism is a generally good idea business-wise:


8/14/2011 7:49:29 PM

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DevilsChaplain


8/16/2011 3:29:06 PM

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N. De Plume

I fixed up Osiris’s definitions:




8/16/2011 4:45:41 PM

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Cuneas

Actually, he's right, albeit in an insanely overreactive and out-of-touch-with-reality way. Seuss' later works do have a liberal ideology to them.

It's the kind of liberal ideology that it's hard to oppose, unless you're completely insane, but "all people are equal",
"destroying the planet for short-term gain is a bad idea" and "creating nuclear weapons wasn't the smartest thing humans ever did" are pretty much liberal ideals.

That's kind of why I'm a liberal.

9/6/2011 4:56:00 PM

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louislois

Someone isn't capable of grasping "biggerer" concepts like environmental sustainability.

@ N. De Plume: That comic's brilliant. Thanks for sharing that.

9/6/2011 5:28:32 PM
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