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Very slightly misleading.. I doubt anybody actually thought they wanted to have a book burning. We're not quite there yet.

- The 9 year old used his brain, his humanity and his creativity to make something nice for the community.

- We delegated power to a collection of mindless bureaucrats.

- Mindless bureaucrats caused problems for 9 year old.

Pretty accurate title.

This comment doesn't respond to its parent at all. It's like you read the first sentence and then stopped.

I read the entire comment, the initial point about the title being misleading irked me.

There was nothing misleading about it, it accurately conveyed what happened. IMHO we're beyond the point where micro-debating the various ins and outs of these things is helpful. Yes they should have done what he/she suggested, but yes - NONE of this should be happening. It's tiring and ridiculous.

The future is going to be tricky, we need to move faster and more efficiently than this.

The title is definitely misleading and does NOT accurately convey what happened. According to the article the city didn't ask him to stop sharing books, and as far as I can tell they are still sharing books. Just doing it from the garage instead of a free standing bookshelf (the real question is, what exactly is an "accessory structure.") Is a picnic table a free standing structure? What if you place a bread box on it?

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