Fahrenheit -451

clipped from www.e-referrer.com Volunteers have reported that ‘a large number’ of elderly customers are snapping up hardbacks as cheap fuel for their fires and stoves. Workers at one charity shop in Swansea, in south Wales, described how the most vulnerable shoppers were seeking out thick books such as encyclopaedias for a few pence because they were cheaper than coal. But in addition to Ray Bradbury's famous dystopian novel (which previously echoed more than a little in last year's Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act story), it's also the alpha and the omega of Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism, now celebrating its second anniversary. The rulers of National Socialist Germany burned books because they were frightened by their content; the citizens of socialist England burn books because of their nation's whackadoodle environmentally correct energy policies. So to paraphrase Lauri B. Regan at the American Thinker, “Hey Chuck, how’s all that global warming working out for you?”