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Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas, Linda Campbell Commentary Column.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

| June 06, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 1999 Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

By Linda Campbell, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Jun. 6--FIRST AMENDMENT UMBRELLA COVERS TERRITORY SOME FOLKS MIGHT THINK IS WET: Does the First Amendment have a sense of humor?

Apparently a Riverside, Calif., grandmother has neither a sense of humor nor an understanding of constitutional free speech protections, because she wants her local school district's librarians to toss Dav Pilkey's "The Adventures of Super Diaper Baby" out like ... well, a soiled diaper.

The book's offense? It inspired a 7-year-old to doodle a character who morphs from the dastardly "Deputy Dangerous" into "Deputy Doo-Doo" when he tries to steal Super Diaper Baby's powers but mistakenly winds up only with his …

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