# Pitting Prickly City, not for being slanted, but for being just plain dumb **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 1, 2007, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-prickly-city-not-for-being-slanted-but-for-being-just-plain-dumb/394161 "2007-03-01T15:50:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [March 1, 2007, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-prickly-city-not-for-being-slanted-but-for-being-just-plain-dumb/394161/1 "2007-03-01T15:50:29Z")
The Prickly City strip is, of course, so slanted it makes the Tower of Pisa look straight. Last week, it spent an entire week repeating the wingnut talking points on the discredited Pelosi plane story. This week, the strip has moved on to global warming. (Basic theme: liberals are saying you should believe in global warming because the media has bought into it, and who should question them? Scientific consensus - what’s _that??_) But in [today’s strip](http://www.gocomics.com/pricklycity/2007/03/01/), the conservative character asks: “Rather than scare people with some apocalyptic global-warming scenario, wouldn’t it make more sense to convince folks that fewer people, especially kids, would have asthma and emphysema if they stopped pumping gunk into the air?” ‘Gunk’ in the air indeed aggravates conditions like asthma. _But carbon dioxide isn’t ‘gunk.’_ Until we realized there might be a problem with greenhouse gases, _we didn’t even consider it to be a pollutant_, except in confined indoor situations. Carbon dioxide emissions _have no known connection_ to asthma or emphysema. These are _two separate and unrelated problems_. You _could_ sell efforts to combat global warming that way, but it would be a lie. And two minutes on Wikepedia was all it took to verify that. What a maroon. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-prickly-city-not-for-being-slanted-but-for-being-just-plain-dumb/394161/2 "2007-03-02T03:21:27Z")
The Chicago Tribune dropped this pile of crap a few months ago. But, of course, to appear “fair and balanced”, it also dropped the liberal-leaning (but genuinely funny) Candorville at the same time. Sigh. ---
**Author:** ![pizzabrat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e9c0ed/32.png) [@pizzabrat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pizzabrat)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-prickly-city-not-for-being-slanted-but-for-being-just-plain-dumb/394161/3 "2007-03-02T03:28:39Z")
Don’t forget it’s horribly drawn. A couple of months ago he had some deal where a bunch of other artists were drawing the strip, and the change was reflected in the storyline. The storyline was introduced when they fell through some dimensional portal and turned into Manga. The manga segment was an accurate reproduction of real manga, and I though “ah, so he really does have drawing talent - the normal look is just his style…?”. Then I looked closer and found the actual cartoonist’s signature. That was the case throughout the storyline - the normal author was credited in the official printed title, but you had to look closely for the signature to found out who really drew it. Oh yeah, point is, the shit’s ugly. ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-prickly-city-not-for-being-slanted-but-for-being-just-plain-dumb/394161/4 "2007-03-02T03:31:23Z")
The Tennessean just picked up in lieu of Mallard Fillmore. It’s just another talking head political strip with neither characterization nor plot. I would almost prefer they bring back BC. At least that guy can write. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-prickly-city-not-for-being-slanted-but-for-being-just-plain-dumb/394161/5 "2007-03-02T03:46:45Z")
[QUOTE=Hung Mung] At least that guy can write. [/QUOTE] For 20 minutes. In the 1970s. Seriously…BC still has very occasional funny moments. But they’re severely outnumbered and overshadowed by two other types: outright fundamentalist drivel and stuff that used to be funny 30 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-prickly-city-not-for-being-slanted-but-for-being-just-plain-dumb/394161/6 "2007-03-02T05:23:09Z")
[QUOTE=jayjay] For 20 minutes. In the 1970s. Seriously…BC still has very occasional funny moments. But they’re severely outnumbered and overshadowed by two other types: outright fundamentalist drivel and stuff that used to be funny 30 years ago. [/QUOTE] Try the 60’s, and you might be closer to the target. At least with Prickly City he occasionally (OK, rarely) points out stupidity on the right. The art DOES suck. It’s like he _thinks_ he’s channeling Bill Watterson, when he’s actually channelling Geoff Watersan, a bored 5th grader in Tuscaloosa, doodling in English class. ---
**Author:** ![Baldwin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baldwin/32/7264_2.png) [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-prickly-city-not-for-being-slanted-but-for-being-just-plain-dumb/394161/7 "2007-03-02T15:56:32Z")
And [today’s strip (Friday, 03/02/07)](http://www.gocomics.com/pricklycity/2007/03/02/) repeats that tired old canard to the effect that “In the 70s scientists all warned about global cooling – those eggheads don’t know what they’re doing!” I had to write about a thousand words to explain to a friend why this was bullshit, and it didn’t take; for a lot of people this really is a political stance, based on their existing political leanings, and not affected by any evaluation of available scientific data (or even simple facts of recent history). ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [March 2, 2007, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pitting-prickly-city-not-for-being-slanted-but-for-being-just-plain-dumb/394161/8 "2007-03-02T16:23:08Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin] … for a lot of people this really is a political stance, based on their existing political leanings, and not affected by any evaluation of available scientific data (or even simple facts of recent history). [/QUOTE] Right. Al Gore uses a lot of electricity at his house and flies in jets, _ergo_ talk about the human effect on warming is a pile of crap.