{"id":61,"date":"2006-09-06T11:11:55","date_gmt":"2006-09-06T18:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/?p=61"},"modified":"2006-09-06T11:11:55","modified_gmt":"2006-09-06T18:11:55","slug":"adams-apple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.struat.com\/election\/2006\/09\/06\/adams-apple\/","title":{"rendered":"Adams’ Apple"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>There’s a comic strip in the Oregonian from a former (or current?) elementary school teacher from Vancouver, Washington. A while ago, the Oregonian surveyed several comic strips to decide which new strip to add to the paper and replace the Peanuts reprints. Since all the new comic strips sucked (although I was mildly partial to Lio, but it was a case of grading on a curve), the winner as the Peanuts reprint — over 50 percent of respondents voted for it. “Adams’ Apple”, the Vancouver based strip, came in second, and thus ended up replacing some forgetable comic strip that had lingered on the Comics page unnoticed for some time.<\/p>\n

I am not one that derides the comics page of the newspaper. There are about a dozen good strips — not terribly great and not really Appointment Reading. The best of the lot seem to lose something in collected book form where a Calvin and Hobbes would gain something.<\/p>\n

Adams’ Apple is a strip that I suppose would garner knowing nods of recognition from teachers. The art isn’t terribly great, and the gags go no further than the cartoonists’ observations and anecdotes. So it was that it aggrivated me a few week’s ago. For a moment I had to ponder whether I had wandered a little too far into Political Correctness for my own good to decide whether this former (or current) teacher and now cartoonist of a not terribly good comic strip and a stupid gag of mild intolerance was worth a couple seconds worth anger.<\/p>\n

I searched the web for the strip, since I would rather present it than explain it, but it appears “Adams’ Apple” isn’t on the web. Which is just as well.<\/p>\n

So the teacher has the class rise to recite the Pledge of Allegiance. One student asks the teacher if he can be excused from the recitation of the Pledge. The teacher thinks “Oh boy. It’s one of those kids.” The next panel shows the teacher reciting a spiel about “Oh, no. We respect diversity of religion and etc.” The final panel has the kid saying “So I can go use the bathroom”, and the teacher breathing a sigh of relief.<\/p>\n

Is the cartoonist just a little obnoxious? Goddamned those Jehovah’s Witnesses who put an unwelcome spork in our daily rituals and just mildly don’t conform. Why must we change slight things around for their benefit?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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