"Since the Chicago Tribune yanked today's "Boondocks" strip because it 'presents inaccurate information as fact,' I assume the Trib will want to print the following corrections:

"* Snoopy was not a WWI flying ace. Nor did he ever engage the Red Baron, in aerial combat or otherwise.
* Humans cannot read the thoughts of cats, as suggested in "Garfield." Also, cats cannot eat an entire tray of lasagna in one sitting.
* Jeffy did not "help" his daddy draw several installments of "The Family Circus," as noted in several strips over the years.
* The U.S. military does not condone violence within its ranks, as suggested by the many altercations between Sarge and Beetle Bailey.
* Mallard Fillore is not funny. Ever.

"The Tribune regrets the errors."

"If the people of Alabama in time decide that prohibition on sex toys is misguided, or ineffective, or just plain silly, they can repeal the law and be finished with the matter."

"Removing the work is the ultimate punishment. The jail time is nothing compared to removing what I painted."

1. The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier
   
2. Fallen Angels by Walter Dean Myers
   
3. Arming America by Michael A. Bellesiles
   
4. Captain Underpants series by Dav Pilkey
   
5. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky
   
6. What My Mother Doesn't Know by Sonya Sones
   
7. In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak
   
8. King & King by Linda de Haan and Stern Nijland
   
9. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou
   
10. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
    

"I try to promote tolerance in a school where there is not enough among teenagers and am in turn flooded with the intolerance of their parents. People who are negatively commenting on my play are proving my point."

"We poked fun at censorship and guess what? We were censored. It's kind of scary."

"In their continuing effort to protect readers from sophomoric humor, the Chicago Tribune comics-page editors yanked another strip today. This time, it's Prickly City, which has a Chappaquiddick reference for a punchline ...

"A note says the strip didn't meet the paper's 'standards of fairness.' Or maybe a young editor just didn't get the reference. (That's my theory.)"

"I don't change the words in that one. But if I can make something a little less offensive, I will consider it. At some point, though, there's something to be said for telling people to 'Just get over it.'"

"It's terrible. She should be more sensitive than to bring that into a seventh- and eighth-grade classroom. College students can handle stuff like that, but not our babies."

"Yesterday I read a book that was so bad I ended up ranting to my boyfriend for 10 or so minutes about the doomed nature of the publishing industry. Obviously, any industry that produced such a godawful book could not be healthy."

"I was pretty upset when the show was canceled, because I was very excited about it. I know some people don't like gays and lesbians because they think they are bad people. That's just a stereotype and it's kind of hurtful. I don't think people should think of us as very different. We are just the same except we have two moms."

"This was the same feeling of the communists: Keep them dumb and we will stay in control. I never knew books were dangerous. You cannot educate if you censor."

"I never knew this book existed. Now I feel it is my obligation to read it and see what our superintendent found so dangerous that it must be destroyed."

"According to a knowledgeable source, one outside lobbyist for PBS, Karen Nussle, the wife of Rep. Jim Nussle, R-Iowa, told executives at the network that if they went ahead and aired the disputed 'Buster' episode, she would not be able to help them politically. 'She's a good representative to the Republican Congress, and if they lost her that would set the relationship back and PBS would be left exposed on the Hill,' says the source, who adds that PBS's main lobbyist, John Lawson, president of the Association of Public Television Stations, also warned the network against fighting the administration. 'He told them, "This threatens our relationship by making Margaret [Spellings] have to deal with this,"' says the source. Lawson, who is Spellings' brother-in-law and who attended her swearing-in ceremony this week, declined to comment for this article. Nussle did not return calls seeking comment."