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Support Bloggers' Rights! HOWTO: Get a link posted to Boing Boing Boing Boing Mobile powered by Winksite Fark rules! This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License permitting non-commercial sharing with attribution. Boing Boing is a trademark of Happy Mutants LLC in the United States [and other countries]. Stats (About our stats) defeat censorware Policies Our first five years' worth of posts in one file	View a recent day: August 27 \| August 26 \| August 25 \| previous days \| by month and year Monday, August 27, 2007 Sex and religion prompt newspapers to censor "Opus" comic In Opus -- Berkeley Breathed's comic strip followup to Bloom County -- the ever-changeable Lola Granola has taken up conservative Islam as her latest fad. In response, chickenshit newspaper editors across America have pulled the strip, scared of offending people with sex and religion. As Dan Gillmor writes at The Center for Citizen Media Blog, "Puritan prudishness and political cowardice: Now there’s a combination that’s just certain to attract more readers." Link to Salon editorial about the controversy, Link to this week's Opus posted by Cory Doctorow at 07:34:22 AM permalink \| Other blogs' comments View a recent day: August 27, 2007 \| August 26, 2007 \| August 25, 2007 \| August 24, 2007 \| August 23, 2007 \| August 22, 2007 \| August 21, 2007 \| previous days \| all BB archives by month and year Email this entry to: Your email address: Message (optional):	Boing Boing Sponsored by: Your Text Ad Here Get BB by email: