Reading is not for fundamentalists

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know. It's a shameful habit, but I'm gonna keep doing it.

Conservative radio show listeners.

I listen to talk radio in the evenings. Mostly, I listen to American Family Radio and the very conservative talking heads they have on. Despite them raising my blood pressure, I can tolerate 'em better than liberal talking heads - which I can't find on the radio anyway as I live in S. Georgia.

Last night they were in an uproar about a former porn star in Kalifornia who is going to elementary schools and reading to the kids. She says she supports and works with the Read Across America program. http://www.eurweb.com/2011/11/ex-porn-star-sasha-grey-defends-right-to-read-to-compton-school-children/

She read “Dog Breath” by Dav Pilkey to 1^st and 3^rd grade children.

Pack with puns, it really satisfies.

“Read Across America is a program that was designed to promote literacy and instill a lifelong love of reading in elementary school students.  Promoting education is an effort that is close to my heart.  Illiteracy contributes to poverty. Encouraging children to pick up a book is fundamental," she said.

One of the talking heads called working in porn the most detestable work a human can do.

I disagree. Ordering young men and women to their death in a foreign country we have no business being in is a far more detestable.

As with Miss Grey, YMMV

Which would you rather see? Two people enjoying themselves or two people literally killing each other? Which is more life affirming? Which is really more offensive?

But as usual, I digress. Back on topic to the literate porn star. Shocking, yes, that a former porn star is capable of reading.

Even more disturbing.

What's more shocking to me is the outrage of parents in the Granola State. I'm of the opinion you can't throw a pecan tree limb over there without hitting a current, former or aspiring porn star. When you live in a community like the Left Coast, you are going to get porn stars who are neighbors and members of the PTA.

Ya don't like it, ya move to Utah where Biblical "knowledge" of each other is almost outlawed.

More to the point, I wonder how many of the protesting parents have bothered to show up at the elementary school to read to the kids.

How many of the protesting parents bother to show as much attention to their kids as this former porn star is doing?

You may be one of those horrified about this woman reading to elementary school children.

If you are a parent, how much reading did you do with your children? How much do you read now? How much do your children read?

Muscle up your mind. I dare you.

It's not gonna be an absolute relationship, but I bet there is a really strong correlation between parents who object to the porn star reading to kids and how little the parents read to their children.

There is no greater indicator of success in a person than the person's willingness to read.

Reading Is Fundamental and it doesn't matter who does it, porn star, preacher or someone who doesn't have an opinion one way or another.