Top Ten Sunday Comic Strips from The Washington Post: Greetings from Easter Island

Another Easter Island gag from the Danish import "WUMO," which replaced "Get Fuzzy" in "The Washington Post" a few months back, is our top choice this week as a smiley face decides it's time to leave Easter Island (it's hard to explain "WUMO" strips for the same reason it's hard to explain Salvador Dali paintings).

Dave Coverly had a hilarious comic strip in "Speed Bump" as well as two prisoners discuss whether or not they want to buy their institution's yearbook. Hilary B. Price's "Rhymes with Orange" had a play on words from a Marvin Gaye song which somehow involved sheep.

Similarly, Darrin Bell's "Candorville" revolved around a discussion of The Milky Way by two African-American males on a living room couch, which involves a joke about the current nature of privacy (or a lack of it) in today's America.

Lastly, "Pearls Before Swine" had a different strip than the one which was in other newspapers. Stephan Pastis, who draws the strip, said publicly today that it was a decision made by "The Washington Post." The removed strip involves extreme political correctness. and the replacement featured a donkey going to a public rage. Ok...........


Here is our top ten:

1. WUMO (see image one, Easter Island)

2. "Speed Bump"

3) "Rhymes with Orange" (see image two, these are two Turkish sheep, we hope they didn't become lamb chops)

4) "Lio"

5) "Candorville"

6) "Pearls Before Swine"

7) "Brewster Rockit: Space Guy"

8) "Doonesbury"

9) "Sherman's Lagoon"

10) "Prickly City"


http://www.gocomics.com/wumo

http://www.gocomics.com/lio

http://www.candorville.com

http://www.rhymeswithorange.com

Catholicism by the Numbers

With images above of a Catholic church in Russia and a sheep in Uzbekistan, here is a look at the numbers of Catholicism in countries where they are minorities.

Though I am not a Catholic myself, I thought with the new coronation of Pope Francis I of Argentina and Easter Sunday occurring tomorrow that this would be a subject of interest:

Azerbaijan 400

India 19.9 million

Israel 100,000

Japan 509,000

Kazakhstan 250,000

Russia 750,000

Uzbekistan 5,000

http://www.catholic.org