Dr Seuss and Mr Potato Head.

 One perk of not having kids is that I don't have to care about children's products. Yet suddenly a lot of people who don't post pictures of kids are suddenly posting memes about Dr Seuss and Mr Potato Head. So even I now have the urge to rant about things I don't really have a stake in.

Let's start off with Mr Potato Head. Hasbro is dropped the "Mr" from the packaging. This suits me just fine, vegetables shouldn't have prefixes before their names. Moving on.

Six Dr Seuss books are going out of print. Normally it doesn't make the news when a book goes out of print because this happens all the time. This is usually the result of very basic and boring business decisions. If a publisher can't make money selling a book, then it will stop spending money on printing that book. The book isn't cancelled or censored: if you bought a copy already then you still get to keep it forever. You might even find it in a used book store, or you can hunt down a copy online.

Sometimes there is demand for a book, but the author or publisher doesn't want to sell it anymore. Using his nom de plume Richard Bachman, Stephen King wrote a book called Rage about a student who shoots a couple teachers and takes his class hostage. After a couple of actual school shooters turned out to be fans of the book, King decided to let the book go out of print. He won't let anyone else make new copies. A used paperback copy can cost $28 or more. 

Stephen King made the choice to discontinue one book. Dr Seuss' estate made the choice to discontinue 6 books that weren't selling well.

"Hurr durr, why are Dr Seuss books being taken off the market but Wet Ass Pussy is perfectly fine?" Because Dr Seuss books are a product for children. WAP is a song for adults. Young parents don't want to raise racist kids, and they are the ones who decide what small children are allowed to read.

Ultimately, Hasbro and the Dr Seuss estate figured out a way to get free advertising for their products by making idiots mad. The sales of Dr Seuss books are way up. And it's about time that I found a way to cash in on this shit too. Buy my novel, A Long Way From Tipperary. It's got sex and violence in it too, and it's definitely not for kids. It's on sale until I get my COVID-19 shot. Then I will raise the ebook price to that of a gallon of gas. That way, any time I need to fill the tank, I can just go out and sell 13 copies.