Sightings: Why Not Save the Indignation for Something Worthwhile?

WSJ.com: Spring is here, which means that it's time once again for the American Library Association's annual Top 10 list of "most frequently challenged books." These are the books that have drawn the largest number of formal complaints "requesting that materials be removed [from a library] because of content or appropriateness." Each time the list comes out, enlightened readers hasten to snigger at those benighted members of the booboisie who dare to suggest that "Of Mice and Men" and "To Kill a Mockingbird," both of which have previously appeared on the list, might possibly be thought unsuitable for consumption by youngsters.