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November 22, 2005
And The Sun Revolves Around the Earth, Dammit
It seems as though the Republicans' desire to rewrite history doesn't just have to do with the war in Iraq. Yesterday's out-of-the-blue Mars Rovers Anniversary strip seemed a bit bizarre, even for Stantis. Was it because he used the same panels from last year at this time and crossed out "one year" and "first" and put in "two year" and "second?" Actually, it's even weirder than that.
You see, when Stantis has Carmen say that we're coming up on the two-year anniversary of the Mars Rovers landings, it didn't happen in late November 2003. Or even December 2003. The Mars Rover's First Anniversary was actually in January, 2005. Well, maybe Stantis was referring to when they were initially launched. Nope, they were launched in June and July of 2003.
So what gives? With things so terrible for the Republican Party this month did Stantis leap ahead a month in his "Things To Do In Prickly City" calendar to something that doesn't have to do with politics? Or is it because as a neo-con he can't help himself - he has to rewrite the history of EVERYTHING? I know my neo-con friend is convinced that there's a War On Christmas, that the war in Iraq is Us vs. The Terrorists, and that raising minimum wage, universal healthcare, and no more tax cuts for the wealthy "would destroy the country." And now he probably believes that we landed rovers on the Red Planet in November 2003 for some wacky, lazy reason.
As for today's strip, Winslow is trying to use the rover as a land speedboat so he can go sand skiing. Carmen calls him stupid.
This harkens back to my comment yesterday - by having the Rover in the desert of the Southwest United States, is Stantis implying that the rovers never left the planet and it was all staged? Why, that's just a crazy conspiracy, isn't it???
Please, there are no such things as conspiracies like that. Geez, next thing you know he'll be wondering if FDR knew about Pearl Harbor before it happened, the official story of 9/11 is questionable, and the administration fixed the facts around the policy in the build-up to the war in Iraq.
Then again, maybe he's on to something...
Comments
If that's what he's saying, then just... wow. Stantis' rational thinking ability just crossed the line from idiot to drunken hobo.
Posted by: JB at November 22, 2005 09:33 AM
Maybe the Rover found some WMD? HURR.
Posted by: j kendall at November 22, 2005 10:58 AM
Is it possible that Mr. Stantis is an anti-semantic?
Posted by: sacki at November 22, 2005 11:06 AM
I'll bet that if Scott Stantis got a tax cut, he would start writing better, because we all know that tax cuts cure all evils. With a tax cut, he would have an incentive to write fresh, original story lines! But with the welfare state taking its enormous cut, we can't expect anything more.
Posted by: Annie at November 22, 2005 01:37 PM
If he got another tax cut, he'd just spend it on more tequila, drool over his table and create poorly-drawn characters and inane story lines.
Umm ... okay, then maybe a tax INCREASE would make him snap out of his delirium and improve this sorry-assed excuse for comic strip.
Posted by: jackmac at November 22, 2005 03:33 PM
