Back to School

Dr. X posts this from that place where they discovered Hassium:

"Tom Lehrer's 'The Elements', animated.

"The Wikipedia article on Lehrer is pretty good.

"Here is an interview with The Onion AV Club from 2000, which includes this gem:

I mean, there's a recent case in Amherst, Massachusetts, where they canceled a performance of West Side Story in the high school because they thought it was offensive to Puerto Ricans or something, missing the point of the whole show. Or they ban Huckleberry Finn because it has the word "nigger" in it. That's just silly. But what can you do? Except kill those people.

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