“It’s a task any writer should approach with great humility, but I think it’s worth doing. We are at war, and we can’t lose sight of the hardships war inflicts on individuals.”

Garry Trudeau on an expletive (the one that rhymes with ‘witch’) in his comic strip, Doonesbury, being deleted by newspaper editors on Wednesday April 21st.

See it here.

I thought this was a rather uninspired use of censorship. Maybe the media are in the Howard/Britney/Janet phase of not knowing whose knuckles to rap.