Growing up

Using part of my bank holiday to catch up with my RSS feed backlog, I came across this Alexandra Petri piece, published in the wake of the Nashville school shooting last month:

I can think of nothing worse than children — in school, sitting at their desks, reading banned books. A horrible thought, all those children solemnly holding books in their hands and reading them and putting the thoughts in those books into their minds. Learning the wrong lessons and growing up — the wrong way. […]

Savage.

[Via The Overspill]