Shrubville

Hmmmmm. I love DiFi and voted for her regularly back when I was a Californian. And she showed incredible class when the Huffingtons dragged her through the mud (Why do people seem to love and trust Arianna so much these days?)

Still, DiFi could have done better on this telephone spying issue. I'm not happy about that. But she's not my senator anymore, either.

I don't even pay attention to the strip- I only like reading the critiques. What am I gonna do? Suddenly go to the strip and see comedy? Fat chance.
Here's the real crime: no podcast since July!

Now, am I responsible for that, with the missing pages of my critical e-mail scandal? 'Missingpages-Gate'?
I'm gonna miss the stupid voices; remember how his sidekick would characterize himself as 'the liberal' of the two?

Yeah. Right. If that guy's the liberal, I'm definitely getting lynched upon arrival in Birmingham...

Or the wicked backpedaling while explaining the strip, trying to make it funny in retrospect (because that's what people REALLY like- comedy in the rear view mirror).

great day in the morning!
THE URL LISTED FOR THE STRIP IS WRONG! HE CAN'T EVEN WRITE THE URL CORRECTLY.
GOOD LORD, WHEN WILL THE MADNESS END.

Which URL?

Personally I think Stantis just doesn't care enough about Prickly City to do more than just scribble together a strip each day, and that's because he's paid to do it so he has to. It was one thing when he loved the platform, but over the past year he seems to have lost any desire to do it. Maybe it was that presentation he gave where the audience turned on him, big time. But I'm not surprised he hasn't done a podcast since July - after promising weekly podcasts last year. He could care less.

As for DiFi, she used to be pretty good but I think something happened this year to her as well. Maybe it's knowing this is her last term, or being married to a big money defense contractor, but something's switched in that brain of hers that she pushed for Southwick, Mukasey, and telecom immunity all in a matter of months. Maybe she should join the Lieberman for Lieberman party.

"Ohhh, lord..." -- Goat, in the comic strip "Pearls Before Swine"

They did it. My God, they did it. They confirmed Mukasey. Our new attorney general refuses to define waterboarding as torture.

“Judge Mukasey’s answer to the waterboarding question was important in itself, but it also raised for me serious doubts about whether he is prepared to be the truly independent voice that the Justice Department so desperately needs. If he cannot stand up to the president on such a question of profound importance with a clear legal answer, how can we be sure that he would be more than just another mouthpiece for an administration that treasures secrecy and loyalty above all?” -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada)

They confirmed him. They confirmed a man who said that he would not classify a long-illegal torture technique as illegal. And they confirmed him for an office that helps to determine exactly what the law is and what it means.

"Good grief." -- Charlie Brown, in the comic strip "Peanuts"

DiFi? Dianne Feinstein used to be a good Democratic senator. But recently? Who knows where she stands now. She was one of six Democrats to vote to confirm Mukasey yesterday. She was one of the people who allowed Mukasey to get confirmed despite the presence of a majority in our party.

"I hear they taste like fear!" -- WInslow, in the comic strip "Prickly City"

Secret batter?
A new low!