– This would explain all the moldy eggs I ate as a kid: The Toronto Public Library was asked to remove the Dr. Seuss classic Hop on Pop, apparently on the grounds that it “encourages children to use violence against their fathers.” The complainant also asked the library to apologize and pay damages to fathers injured by children acting under the book’s pernicious influence.

You just cannot make this stuff up (h/t Mental Floss).

– Culturally appropriative irony, explained? PolicyMic has a piece on why hipsters seem to think it’s cool to wear Native American headdresses. The short answer is that there is no good reason, but plenty of reason to stop doing it:

For centuries, Native Americans have watched their culture disappear, its meaning and importance misunderstood, vilified and sold. It isn’t hard to understand why Native Americans would want the significance of a headdress preserved — it’s a spiritual item, used in musical rituals that help define Native American culture…As 70% of Native Americans now live in a metropolitan area (8% in 1940) it’s important to preserve symbols since America has left little else native to Native populations. Headdresses are not a toy to be bought, sold and worn for a drunk weekend then tossed aside. It’s a long-standing problem — one we’ve needed to address for far too long.

– So you’re lacking confidence about that final exam…: Why not advertise for a hitman? That’s what some University of Georgia students apparently tried to do—although honestly, I don’t trust any of this stuff to be completely on the level anymore. Mind you, they didn’t want anyone to kill them, just hit them with a car so they’d end up in the hospital during exams, presumably too sedated to handle a blue book.

Anyhoo, Craigslist took the ad down pretty quickly. Since we don’t know the students’ names, we don’t know if they ever found a way to get out of the final. Embrace the mystery.

– No, not that kind of weight loss! Shape magazine wants before/after picture of people who have lost a lot of weight, but apparently they don’t want to show their readers what rapid weight loss actually looks like. They asked Brooke Birmingham, who sent in a picture of herself in a bikini after losing 170 lbs. over four years, to please send a picture of herself in a shirt instead. As it turns out, weight loss doesn’t always mean washboard abs, which anyone who stopped to think about it for ten seconds or less would know. These magazines already present enough unrealistic expectations, so why should they hide what you might think they would consider a success story?

Photo credit: Ginny [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Flickr; photo via galleryhip.com.