(see update below)

Several complaints about different issues made their way to Stripes recently.

A cartoon drew the ire of at least three readers. Another reader was bugged by a headline. A passage in an article about gas prices butted up against yet another  reader's sense of good taste versus bad.

THE OFFENDING cartoon was from the "Non Sequitur" series that runs daily. It showed a chicken dressed as a Ku Klux Klan member which, according to the farmer in the frame, "only lays egg whites." Here it is, from the issue of Nov. 24:

Three articles (1 | 2 | 3) published in Stars and Stripes recently may have seemed confusing to some. They reported, first, that the newspaper’s business side had been involved in a complicated procedure to shift money to a Defense Department program called America Supports You (ASY). It was created in 2004 to publicize nonprofit and commercial efforts to show appreciation for troops in the field.