#30 - batman and robin sucked (07-97) 



it's hot summer in the city, and everyone's at the quick trip buying booze. but christopher is getting ready for a date! a date with Hope! oo, la la, what could possibly go wrong?

i suppose we'll see.

the enquirer indicates that the president might be demonstrating leadership . . . yah, that would have been the day. poor clinton. remember the days when the presidential penis was the envy and awe of the world? now i gotta listen to whiney jackasses defend mass murderers hiding in holes with old AK-47s against a man better suited to be commissioner of baseball, and i gotta get pissed off at these same apologists! talk about turning me off on politics.

the new times was great for politics. usually conspiratorial and tin-hatty, it railed against the local political leadership until it finally failed and folded a couple years after this strip. it left the pitch in possession of the field. disappointing, really. there's a certain amount of print media in kansas city . . . @kansas city, or whatever it's called, the back-pages, the call, dos mundos, el informador, the wednesday magazine, the sun way out in johnson county, the pitch, the star, and a few other odds and ends, but except for the star and the sun, they are mostly addressing the interests of a section of town or a particular group. the pitch and the new times created a point-counterpoint of independent media that looked at the city at lsrge. now the competition is between the Knight-Ridder corportation--the star--and the New Times corporation (no relation)--the pitch. editorial voices that are 'of record' for the city dwindle in number--anyone remember the kansas city times?--and are controlled by external forces.

what could possibly go wrong?

i suppose we'll see.

once again, nips skirmishes with the quiktrip clerk.

the wash isn't half-bad, and the layout's getting better . . . but not by much. at least i'm on track again . . . for the nonce.





 

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