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The U.S. Postal Service’s latest bold plan to avoid delivering mail has come to Washington. That’s right, nerds: There are mailboxes clumsily disguised as the world’s most beloved robot friend! MORE »

In honor of Lucasfilm buying off the U.S. Postal Service for a promotional stunt, 400 mailboxes have been decorated with shrink wrap that vaguely resembles the possibly fictional droid R2D2. A few of these “Star Wars” mail receptacles will be placed in 200 cities so we can all dream of a postal service run by cute helpful tireless servants rather than surly incompetent civil servants. MORE »

• Dennis Hastert may look like “a cross between actor Wilford Brimley and Jabba the Hutt,” but “nobody really fears him.” [WP]

• Tony Snow is the first White House press secretary to make fund raising appearances. He’ll quit if it interferes “with his day job.” [NYT]
• Republicans are “effectively conceding some Senate and House seats with the goal of retaining at least a thin margin of control when the 110th Congress is seated next January.” [NYT]
• Forsaken by leaders, the GOP tries to save Santorum with grassroots efforts. [LAT]
• For insurance companies, American farms themselves are the cash crop. [WP]
• Majority of Americans don’t vote in midterm elections due to restrictive registration rules, spite. [WSJ]
• No deaths reported in yesterday’s powerful earthquake in Hawaii. [USAT]

It’s time once again for resident cartoon expert the Comics Curmudgeon to analyze Today’s Cartoons for your amusement and horror.

This week, Cartoon Violence tackles, uh… well, it’s hard to say. Because none of these cartoons make any sense. But he does his best, little trooper. It’s all after the jump.

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From the Wikipedia entry on the Israel-Lebanon conflict, earlier today (since fixed). MORE »