My old hometown and libraries....

.... I was raised in Loudoun County in Northern Virginia. Here's what an editiorial the Washington Post had to say about the County Supervisors, who sound like the biggest set of twits you could imagine.

THE STARCHY schoolmarms and would-be censors who hold sway on Loudoun County's Board of Supervisors have pronounced themselves opposed to spending public money to stock R-rated DVDs in the public libraries. Luckily, these Guardians of the True G-Rating do not call the shots at the county's seven library branches when it comes to determining acquisitions policy; the county's library board does that, and, being independent, it wisely decided to ignore the priggish directive from on high.

Why did the Supervisors threaten the Libraryies' budget? Good question.

Neither the libraries nor the supervisors have reported any public complaints about the fact that 440 R-rated movies are available as DVDs in Loudoun's library system. In fact, as The Post's Amy Gardner reported, the titles are so popular that they are usually checked out. Nor are youngsters getting their hands on the DVD versions of movies that they cannot see in the theaters; the libraries have a policy of not lending R-rated flicks to minors.

Do the good folks of Loudoun actually pay people for this?

Sometimes I think that the librarians of the nation are the only people who have actually internalized the values of the US Constitution and a liberal democracy.