RUN IT ON THE CENSORTORIAL PAGE

Every once in a while, the comic strip “Doonesbury” goes into “reruns” when weak-hearted newspapers decide a storyline will be too controversial for their readers (or the newsroom’s telephone lines) to endure. The comic strip “The Boondocks” is quickly catching up, as its spicy racial and political topics induce heart attacks in editorial offices across this brave land of ours.

When fans complain of censorship, “Doonesbury” creator Garry Trudeau corrects them with unfailing good grace: It’s called editing, not censorship, he says.

Little did he know.

In explaining why it’s dropping “The Boondocks,” the Cincinnati Enquirer says, straight out, that it did so “because we did not want to keep publishing a comic that we regularly needed to censor.”