In the fine tradition of the SDMB’s own Scylla, who shared with us his own investigations into waterboarding, the comic strip Prickly City has tried it, and didn’t like it.
Carmen blows it off as “just a little water up the nose.”
Winslow demonstrates – on Carmen.
Carmen revises her opinion; Winslow gets the last laugh.
Prickly City is an interesting strip: unashamedly conservative, yet not devoid of humor and tiredly hiveminded like Mallard Fillmore. I’ve noticed over the last year or so, while its preferred target remains liberal follies, it’s been taking some shots at the grosser idiocies of the current regime, the ones that a conservative in the pre-neocon, pre-borrow-and-spend mold would find offensive.
This, though – this is, IMO, the strongest anti-Bush statement it’s made to date. I have to wonder what it suggests (if anything, if anything) about opinions in the Republican grassroots.
Another thought just popped up: Prickly City and Doonesbury inhabit opposite ends of the political cartooning spectrum, yet both don’t shy away from zinging dumbassery on their own side, and both are frequently amusing – unlike the aforementioned Mallard Fillmore, which is depressingly unfunny. Coincidence? I think not.
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