I sent a letter to Marin IJ congratulating them for putting PBS in 7 days a week….This follow up letter appeared yesterday….No LOL for this idiot! We gotta get him, Steph!!
“As an audience of one, I must protest the inclusion of cartoonist S. Pastis’ “Pearls Before Swine” in the comic section.
I should have protested when it was first included in the Sunday section, but its inclusion in the IJ every day is no longer tolerable.
Earlier this week a reader wrote praising the strip.
I am still trying to determine whether the reader was truly appreciative or being as sarcastic as Pastis tries to be.
The best thing I can say of the strip is that it is totally devoid of humor. The strip portrays violence as the answer to all situations and that violence is somehow humorous.
The March 13 strip is a prime example.
Additionally, the strip seems to think that profanity, vulgarity, and obscenity, as evidenced by its constant and consistent use of symbols such as # and @, is humorous.
Finally, for today anyway, I find the language, syntax, and thought patterns of the “croc” characters demeaning, if not racist.
The crocs are used by Pastis to show that any individual, or group of individuals, should be laughed at or made fun of because their mental capacities, accent and language use are in some way less or different from our own.
Please remove this offensive strip from the IJ and take a good look at “Get Fuzzy” by D. Conley for the same reasons."
I sent a letter to Marin IJ congratulating them for putting PBS in 7 days a week….This follow up letter appeared yesterday….No LOL for this idiot! We gotta get him, Steph!!
“As an audience of one, I must protest the inclusion of cartoonist S. Pastis’ “Pearls Before Swine” in the comic section.
I should have protested when it was first included in the Sunday section, but its inclusion in the IJ every day is no longer tolerable.
Earlier this week a reader wrote praising the strip.
I am still trying to determine whether the reader was truly appreciative or being as sarcastic as Pastis tries to be.
The best thing I can say of the strip is that it is totally devoid of humor. The strip portrays violence as the answer to all situations and that violence is somehow humorous.
The March 13 strip is a prime example.
Additionally, the strip seems to think that profanity, vulgarity, and obscenity, as evidenced by its constant and consistent use of symbols such as # and @, is humorous.
Finally, for today anyway, I find the language, syntax, and thought patterns of the “croc” characters demeaning, if not racist.
The crocs are used by Pastis to show that any individual, or group of individuals, should be laughed at or made fun of because their mental capacities, accent and language use are in some way less or different from our own.
Please remove this offensive strip from the IJ and take a good look at “Get Fuzzy” by D. Conley for the same reasons."
James W. Guthrie, Novato