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November 13, 2005
Tie a Ribbin'
There are times when I feel like criticizing Scott Stantis is like grading a dumb child's school report. You have a feeling the kid is trying, but geez - doesn't he look anything up? What makes it worse is that dumb children don't get paid to create political comic strips that I make fun of on the weekends.
In his colorful Sunday panel, Winslow holds what he calls his awareness ribbon.
Let's stop right there. For those of you who aren't aware, and from what I can find on google, awareness ribbons are a fad where people show their support for different causes. For example, the one most people know is the yellow ribbon, in support of our troops. At least that's what it used to mean. You see, the ribbon fad seems to have come back in the form of awareness bracelets. These were popularized by Lance Armstrong, he of the many French bike riding awards. Now kids all over are wearing different bracelets, many of which seem like overkill (blue means to be aware of the problem of bullying apparently).
But I'm going to stop right there. When doing my research (for Stantis, that's r-e-s-e-a-r-c-h - look it up), I myself was confused as to not only what these awareness thingies all meant, but what Stantis was talking about. The ribbons are supposed to be either magnetic (like the ones you see on the back of cars) or pins (like you see on the lapels of crooked politicians). The bracelets aren't made of ribbon - well I guess they could be, but from all the pictures I've seen they're not.
I guess the joke here is that Winslow is holding a ribbon that's supposed to make people aware of...other awareness ribbons. But that doesn't make much sense since the rainbow ribbon is already being used for other things, like supporting religious tolerance and homosexuals. Heck, for all I know it's to support Jesse Jackson.
This is what I meant before about treating Stantis like he's the special boy in class. At times he means well, but dangit - he just doesn't try hard enough.
And the rest of the time he's trying to burn stuff.
