Grass Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

In a definitive pimp-slap to censorship forces, German author G¸nter Grass has won the 1999 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Nobel committee specifically cited his novel The Tin Drum, which an Oklahoma City prosecutor tried to have the film version declared child pornography.

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