The Sarah vs. Joe saga continues. After assessing the coverage Ms. Palin and her rival for the vice presidency, Joe Biden, have been getting in Stars and Stripes (see the latest column/blog below), I was confident the controversy wouldn't abate. I was right. A reader from Wiesbaden, Germany, took offense at -- what else? -- a  Doonesbury cartoon. In that Sept. 23 strip, author Garry Trudeau reduced Palin (literally) to a talking doll that "lies."

"I will be waiting," wrote Chaplain (Col.) Bruce Fredrickson in his succinct Sept. 25 letter-to-the-editor, "for an equally disparaging comic for vice presidential candidate Joe Biden in a future edition of Stars and Stripes." His wish may or may not come true, but he should have been interested in another strip that appeared in Stripes the very same day. It was Prickly City, which often acts as a mildly conservative foil to Doonesbury. That Prickly City strip didn't attack Biden, but it did implicitly support Palin by suggesting that if anybody wanted a "delusional, smug and arrogant" vice presidential candidate they could have chosen the caustically leftist satirist Bill Maher.

If the chaplain still needs an anti-Biden fix, may I suggest this current Washington Post blog by Steve Stein. While many in the media have been jumping on some of Palin's remarks, he notes, Biden has had his share of gaffes lately. 

And the saga goes on.