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Things don’t get banned as often these days, probably because we see murder on the news, and what would have been considered pornography a couple of generations ago on daily soap operas. That’s why I was somewhat surprised when Green Day’s “American Idiot” was not allowed to be sold in Wal-Mart stores. It had nothing to do with bad language, as they sell ’sanitized’ versions of CDs with expletives deleted all the time there. Which can only mean the decision to keep it off the shelves in Wal-Mart had to do with the not altogether complimentary messages it sent about our current world situation in general and US government in particular. And that, my darklings, annoys me much more than banning something because it’s got a couple of rude words or some heavy breathing in it.