Nope. Pointing out the simple fact that Prickly City is not a “conservative” comic strip.
You might want to tell that to Scott Stantis,
but I guess you know more about his politics than he does.
CMC fnord!
But Clinton got a blowjob and Gore said he invented the internet! Haw haw!
The only way someone could be “carbon negative” is if somehow they were able to remove carbon dioxide from the air and convert it into energy that can be used as pollution-free fuel.
In other words, true environmentalists become plants.
Admittedly, I’m not an expert is this area myself. But photosynthesis is the only process I can imagine that would be “carbon negative” in a way that would be truly beneficial as per the comic strip. This explains why Terri Shiavo was so important to the righties. Being the vegetable that she was, she did far more to stop global warming than Al Gore ever could. See how it all makes sense, yall? There is a method to the madness.
Well… if it is possible to do things that abate one’s carbon impact in order to be carbon neutral, then there could be a way, if one was to live in such a way as to contribute minimally to the problem but also engage in lots of abatement practices…
It doesn’t seem likely that someone could really achieve this, but it hardly seems likely that trying to offset what impact each of us has will be bad. In particular, if one were to do so, Captain America’s concern that one would be patting himself on the back while really doing nothing seems unfounded.
Well, more precisely, remove CO2 from the atmosphere and return it to the earth. Trees and other plants do this naturally. Mechanisms have been proposed to do this through chemically, with the CO2 ending up as a liquid that would have to be pumped into geologically stable ground.
Just curious, could this liquid CO2 be assimilated into organic material? With plant material, their carbon is converted to sugars, which are consumed and converted into energy and organic molecules by other life forms.
With this liquid CO2 stuff be biodegradeable?
Well, CO2 technically is already degraded, so it can’t be further degraded, bio or otherwise.
There are different technologies with different problems. Some involve pumping liquified CO2 into the ground where it would remain indefinitely. The risk here is that it would accidentally be released. Large clouds of CO2 are deadly. Other techniques involve turning it into a mineral form of carbon, like limestone.
Apart from being a prominent politician, why on earth would Gore be “a good target for derision”?
Mallard Fillmore take note!
No conservative is bashed in this strip. What’s to rant, anyway? The Guard is inarguably overextended; this is hardly controversial. This is one of the occasional instances where Stantis tosses a trivial bone to centrism in order to make himself more palatable to the mainstream press. Anyway, if this is your idea of “bashing” conservatives, holy cow, that’s a pretty fragile sense of criticism.
There’s no conservative-bashing here either. They’re talking about building a wall. Then they talk about how nice if all the lawyers went to Mexico. It’s standard lowbrow conservative fare… “ooh, those nasty trial lawyers and activist judges, let’s get rid of them.”
You’ll notice that whenever there’s a major fuckup, this strip always goes after a underling sacrificial lamb… never after Bush, ever. Again, it’s the standard conservative playbook. Whenever there’s an administrative scandal, blame Rove, blame a cabinet member, maybe, just maybe even blame Cheney. But no matter what, they don’t touch the golden boy Dubya.
I think the point is not how good it would be for America but how bad it would be for Mexico.
So what? Just because it’s “hyperbole” does that make it off limits for disparagement using whatever terms the disparager believes applicable? And maybe Oakminster’s use of “bigot” was hyperbole, too.
Right. Gut reaction. Much like bigotry is a gut reaction, a visceral thing, an unreasoned response stemming directly from one’s prejudices.
Right. Disclamatory language. “I’m no bigot, but . . . we oughtta put them plain-bellied sneetches in some kinda camp.” How many times have we heard that one here in the Pit? And then labeled it bigotry?
“He” did, in the June 20 strip - with a cartoon of Rush Limbaugh and the duck telling Bush “This is what a *real * conservative looks like”.
Any terms you believe applicable? Well, hell, if that’s your argument, why don’t you just say that Brain Wreck’s OP raped you? I mean, you’re certainly free to use whatever terms you want to describe the OP, but some terms are going to end up reflecting more on you than on the person you’re pissed at. Calling the OP bigoted just makes the person making the accusation sound like a hyper-sensitive ninny.
He’s made it pretty clear that he was not being hyperbolic. Besides which, even if it were hyperbole, my original complaint about using that word in this context devaluing the word still stands. Most people who call Bush a Nazi are certainly being hyperbolic, but that doesn’t make the accusation any less childish.