Parody?

nbruce writes “Have you seen Nicholas Kristof’s column (today March 17, not April 1, NYT and many other papers)? It makes me wonder if he keeps up on technology at all, or was he writing a parody to get ALA-ians in a froth? He’s suggesting 1) a “hard-to-forge” national identity card (not impossible, just hard for anyone over 12 to forge), and 2) censorship of “cook-books” that tell how to create biological weapons and how to blow up neighborhoods to experience the thrill of power. He wants to ban books (has he never heard of the internet where most of this stuff roams free?) that have “little free speech value.” That covers a lot of territory. Hoo-boy. We’ve got a “DOA at ALA” columnist, folks.”