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June 03, 2008
Evolution
(Updated Below)
Using the evil internets I was able to track down where Stantis has been getting his quotes from - some press release sent out on Earth Day by the Washington Policy Center, one of those "conservative" operations funded by right-wing millionaires. Yes, there were a few folks saying that in the 1970s things were going to get colder. You know, back when people could only use a phone that had a cord connecting it to the phone line, when computers ran on reel to reel tapes, and everybody needed an antennae to watch 13 television stations.
Man, I wish I could live in Stantis' world, where I just trust the Bible to tell me what to believe. It's much harder living in the real world, where things evolve and change and advance over time. Over the weekend I watched the shuttle launch on the news, where they had a camera mounted on the fuel tank that allowed viewers to watch as the shuttle left our atmosphere. Back in 1970, Apollo 13 was only our third attempt at reaching the moon, and when an explosion crippled it they were relying on protractors and compasses to figure out a way to get home. But in Stantis' world, they would have just prayed really hard that they get home safely.
So in answer to Carmen/Stantis' question about what makes climate theory more accurate now than it was then, it's called "evolution." I know you don't believe in it, but our technology has evolved by leaps and bounds over the last 40 years. 40 years ago, I would have had to actually subscribe to a newspaper to read Prickly City - now I can pull it up for free on the evil internets. And I can point out how lame and unfunny it is online for a few people to read - even though technically millions could read it if Sacki didn't scare them all off.
But alas, not everything evolves with time. Right Stantis?
(Prickly City, April 15th, 2006)
(Prickly City, June 2nd, 2008)
Thanks to U Know Who for pointing this out. Maybe we should send out a press release to all of the newspaper editors out there letting them know that they're paying twice for the same damn strip because Scott Stantis is too lazy to be original. Then again all he does is spew out right wing talking points he reads in press releases anyway, so I doubt this would come as news to them.
***UPDATE***
U Know Who catches Stantis again, this time from October 2006:
Back to back retreads? Much like McCain's flip flopping, maybe Stantis doesn't realize that in the internet age it's not so easy to be so dishonest.
Comments
Oh my Lord. Scott Stantis did it AGAIN today. Here is the Prickly City strip from October 9, 2006:
http://i30.tinypic.com/23mk4f6.jpg
I've never seen this before yesterday, so I don't think it's something Stantis has done a bunch of. But this is no-doubt very lazy.
Posted by: U Know Who at June 3, 2008 11:37 AM
"Something said something almost 40 years ago that seems quaint by today's standards. I'm too busy writing love letters to Dear Leader to draw a new comic. Time for a mash up!"
The best part is that Scotty a) probably doesn't know what a mash up is and b) doesn't realize that they were over in the summer of 2005 anyway.
Posted by: Annie at June 3, 2008 12:03 PM
It takes a nation of millions to hold me back.
Posted by: Sacki at June 3, 2008 12:22 PM
Not true, Winslow did evolve… or at least he mutated a bit in the second panel.
Posted by: grand fool at June 3, 2008 02:10 PM
