September 07, 2003
John Edwards won't run for Senate re-election
Looks like Sen. John Edwards is calling it quits for his 6-year-old political career. Too bad. I liked the guy. Another six years in the Senate could have served him well.
The offending 'Doonesbury' strip
Our two local Sunday papers, the SF Chron and San Jose Merc, both carried today's "controversial" Doonesbury strip. (We get three Sunday papers. The NY Times, of course, is too serious to publish comics.) Dozens of papers apparently yanked the strip because it mentioned masturbation (or "self-dating," as Zonker put it).
The Washington Post, Santa Rosa Press Democrat and San Diego Union-Tribune are among the between 200 and 300 newspapers that ran a substitute strip.
Some call it censorship. Trudeau calls it editing. I call it treating your readers like children.
lee said:
And why did the Doonesbury overshadow the Boondocks? The Boondocks has grandpa waving a GI Joe looking doll, except you can't tell because the top half of the doll is covered in some mud-looking substance.
Grandpa is telling one of the kids that he won't be buying anymore George Bush action figures 'and this better be mud'!
Explain that one to your 8 year old. :-)
Andy Maluche said:
Sometimes I can understand if people get uneasy about masturbation.
Bad thinsgs like this can happen:
http://dont-touch-my.com/cgi-bin/daily/november/021123.html
But luckily there is always somebody to protect us from any harm:
http://www.allaboutsex.org/mormonmasturbationprevention.html
Have fun
JD Lasica said:
Hmm. The Mormons giving advice about sex. I especially liked this:
>When you bathe, do not admire yourself in a mirror.
