Thought police censors Steve Martin play

Cue the outraged soccer parent music again!

The book burners are on a rampage in La Grande, Oregon.

At La Grande High School, a class production of Steve Martin's play 'Picasso At The Lapin Agile' had been planned. This play has aroused absolutely no controversy whatsoever at gabillions of high schools all over this fine land.

But a small group of right-wing parents in La Grande complained about the play because it featured "people drinking in bars."

Thirty years ago, if a high school was confronted by censors making a stink over something like this, the school probably would have just ignored the censors. These days, however, all it takes is one person to object, and the play gets canceled (which dispels the myth that society has grown more permissive since the '70s).

True to form, the school bored scrapped the play.

When Steve Martin heard about this, he offered to foot the bill for the students to present the play - not at their own high school but at Eastern Oregon University. A Student Democrats group has helped raise money for this production. Leftover money that is raised will be used for acting scholarships.

In other words, the book burners' efforts to censor the play backfired - because now they've drawn positive attention to the play from far and wide.

The moral panic crowd never learns, do they?

(Source: http://www.wtop.com/?nid=114&sid=1624759)