The Golden Bomb

Thankfully, the movie, the Golden Compass tanked at the box office. How fortunate for those who waited to see what the hullabaloo was about and decided to forego the waste of money. How sad, though, for the youth who were interested in this film, interested enough to buy the novels and receive the noxious brew cooked up by the English atheist Philip Pullman. It was especially disappointing how some in the Catholic school system were reluctant to remove the books for some perceived "discussion value." One wonders whether blatantly racist fare would have received the same treatment.