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St. Louis readers - vote for Candorville!

Blog: June 2nd, 2006

St. Louis readers, now’s your chance to get Candorville into your paper permanently (well, as “permanently” as any comic strip, which in newspaperspeak means “until the next comics poll”). For the past few months, the Post-Dispatch has been trying out a few strips to see which will replace The Boondocks while it’s on hiatus. Candorville [...]

St. Louis readers - vote for Candorville!

Blog: June 2nd, 2006

St. Louis readers, now’s your chance to get Candorville into your paper permanently (well, as “permanently” as any comic strip, which in newspaperspeak means “until the next comics poll”). For the past few months, the Post-Dispatch has been trying out a few strips to see which will replace The Boondocks while it’s on hiatus. Candorville [...]

Don’t forget to vote for Candorville

Blog: June 10th, 2006

All votes have to be in to the Post-Dispatch by today, so if you want to see the strip in the Post-Dispatch, you have to vote now by sending an e-mail to toon@post-dispatch.com.
You don’t have to write anything moving or eloquent. If you don’t have much time, you can just write one word: “Candorville.”
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Don’t forget to vote for Candorville

Blog: June 10th, 2006

All votes have to be in to the Post-Dispatch by today, so if you want to see the strip in the Post-Dispatch, you have to vote now by sending an e-mail to toon@post-dispatch.com.
You don’t have to write anything moving or eloquent. If you don’t have much time, you can just write one word: “Candorville.”
Visit Candorville!

Reader mailbag - "Do you hate everything Bush does?"

Blog: June 14th, 2006

A G.I. posted a comment on the blog from overseas, and for the benefit of our Stars & Stripes readers, I thought I’d answer it here, point by point.
Staff sergeant (name witheld) said…Please don’t mind me for being rather blunt, but do you hate EVERYTHING Bush does and try to twist it in a way [...]

Reader mailbag - "Do you hate everything Bush does?"

Blog: June 14th, 2006

A G.I. posted a comment on the blog from overseas, and for the benefit of our Stars & Stripes readers, I thought I’d answer it here, point by point.
Staff sergeant (name witheld) said…Please don’t mind me for being rather blunt, but do you hate EVERYTHING Bush does and try to twist it in a way [...]

Will Ferrell on George Bush on Global Warming

Blog: June 15th, 2006

Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” was fascinating and scary, but this one’s just a little bit funnier:

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Candorville on MySpace

Blog: June 21st, 2006

In the hope of connecting even more with readers, long-lost friends, long-lost enemies and the NSA, I’ve set up a page on myspace.com. If your Myspace screen name is “rummy911,” please stop trying to add me as a friend — it’s not gonna happen.
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Well, at least the Stalinists love us…

Blog: June 22nd, 2006

I wonder if anyone else is disturbed by a recent Seattle Times article…
But the atmosphere of goodwill during Bush’s meeting with Austrian Chancellor Wolfgang Schuessel and other EU officials was tested when European reporters pressed Bush on widespread anti-American sentiment in Europe.
“I thought it was absurd for people to think that we’re more dangerous than [...]

"The Daily Show" = Enemy of Democracy?

Blog: June 27th, 2006

A recent study shows that college-age viewers of “The Daily Show” tend to be more cynical about politicians and the Media than non-viewers. Keep in mind, that’s all their data shows.
Why, then, does the mainstream conservative Media conclude from this study that this effect is likely to lead to citizens deciding not to vote? Sure, [...]