Prudish librarians are pushing to ban young adult book The Higher Power of Lucky because of a reference to a rattlesnake-bitten dog ballsack on the first page. And yesterday's front-page Times article about the Newbery award-winning book's controversial use of the word 'scrotum' has lit bloggers more keyed up than they've been since J. K. Rowling last uttered a gnomic death-threat to Harry Potter. The author defends her word choice thusly: "The word is just so delicious." Yummy!