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July 22, 2006
All Babies Love Prickly City
TODAY'S PARABLE
As CJo said on Wednesday, "pat pat pat."
Stantis "boldy" reminds us that HIS conservative Supreme Court has ruled that the practice of redrawing Congressional districts anytime (instead of waiting for the census) that HIS party has abused is okie dokie. Yet somehow Stantis seems to be saying that this is a bad thing. Tsk tsk, you bad conservatives! Why, that's not fair!
Does anybody honestly believe that Stantis is against this? Come on dude, you know you love that your Republican buddies are taking every chance they get to grab as much power as possible to insure they never leave office. But hey, if you toss out a strip like this every once in a while you can say that you're fair and balanced, right? Whatever.
Oh, and let's not forget that it's Winslow that's doing the redistricting. God this comic strip sucks.
With today being such a craptacular experience I actually sat through the Prickly City podcast. That was even more of a chore than reading the damn strip. Stantis defended his punching liberals in the face when they do something he doesn't like - oh, wait, I'm sorry, Toby tells us that Scott would NEVER do anything like that. Yeah, we know, Stantis, like so many other "conservatives," would never do any real fighting of his own. Then again this was a sucker punch. But according to Stantis since Lucy beat the shit out of Linus then it's okay for Scott to play out his fantasies of punching people he sees burning the flag. Apparently in Scott's neighborhood this happens a lot if you listen to the podcast, because EVERY TIME he sees that it makes him angry.
Oh, and the New York Times reported that banking story with "glee" according to Stantis, so that's why he went after them. Yeah, there were smiley faces all over the front page when that story came out. I guess when someone reports that Bush is doing something without any oversight then they're liberal and do it with "glee," but if they report that a terror cell has been broken up they're good Americans. Gotta love double standards.
So to recap what I learned today: Winslow is the new Tom DeLay, Stantis wants to beat the crap out of Linus for burning his American flag blanket, and Prickly City sucks harder than ever. I can't wait to see what we learn at Sunday school.
Comments
You have to admit that the Times' choice of Comic Sans MS for the banking story was questionable.
It does seem to be out of character for "goofy liberal" Winslow to be emulating, well, Tom DeLay, but remember that it was called the "Incumbent Preservation Act". It's possible that the other border of her district is just a couple feet to the left of the panel, and a far better character - say, a semi-deserving background character from a strip with more than two characters, like Susie from "Calvin and Hobbes", or even just a guy who works in the cafeteria at "Beetle Bailey" - had been mounting a tough electoral challenge to Carmen's status as incumbent character. Winslow could, in effect, be re-districting the strip itself as an olive branch after this week's hostilities, giving Carmen a district occupied by the only person who can stand her.
Posted by: Marc Heiden at July 22, 2006 10:15 AM
