Conservative are fucking idiots. This proves it.

[baldguy]

LTTE in my local paper:

I protest the "Pickles" comic strip published on Dec. 24. It was sadistic, the object of the sadism was a little kid and it came out on Christmas Eve. How degraded can you get? The cartoonist, Brian Crane, must be sick to produce such trash. He is beneath contempt for doing so. This strip should never again appear in The Buffalo News.

Richard J. Lanham, M.D.
Lockport

http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20070104/6022781.asp

This is what he was SOOOO offended by:



http://www.comics.com/wash/pickles/archive/pickles-20061224.html

[gratuitous]

1. Is "Dr." Lanham a patient at a mental institution?

Sheesh, let it go, Doctor. Although I have to say if he was my physician, I'd be looking for a referral to another doctor right about now. "Sadistic"? Only to a dumbass.

[n2doc]

2. Well there are some pretty sensitive types here at DU too

But yeah, what a thin skinned, humorless idiot. That toon is pretty funny!

[hlthe2b]

3. Good heavens...

What a putz. I'd certainly want to trust his professional judgement as a physician if he is this out of it...:sarcasm:

[AndyA]

4. That Doctor needs to see his Doctor and have his meds adjusted.

There was nothing even remotely sadistic about that comic strip. In fact, I'd say it's pretty mild compared to many others.

Get over it, folks. Your party had the chance to do good for the last six years and you BLEW IT. You screwed up. BIG TIME.

Now you can watch the pros at work!

[jilln]

12. It's funny you say that...

I googled him and he's a real physician, and seems to work with the government on issues of controlled substances.

[NoodleyAppendage]

5. Let me guess...Dr. Lanham is a proctologist (b/c his head is so far up his ass). n/t

Humor transplant for the MD, I would think.

J

[Cassandra]

6. We didn't need the proof but...

thanks for providing it anyway.

[SoCalDem]

7. I wonder where the good doctor stands on the Guantanamo issue

or Abu Ghraib?

SADISTIC?? a pickle ??

Poor Doc..he's got too much time on his hands :rofl:

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Wow - talk about a totally out of proportion reaction.

I be6t he laughs every time an Iraqi (that is "filthy towelhead") child is blown up, though.

I don't find that cartoon wrong in any way. I certainly can't call the cartoonist "beneath contempt" for producing it.

How odd.

I wonder if Dr. Richard J. Lanham, M.D., feels the same "beneath contempt" about a society that allows millions of people , including children, to go hungry on Christmas Eve right here in our own nation. I wonder if Dr. Richard J. Lanham, M.D., feels this society "beneath contempt" because probably thousands of kids are injured on Christmas Eve/Day, but can't go to the hospital because their parents can't afford it so they just do the best they can and pray to God that no infection or anything bad sets in, while other families, perhaps just one or two doors down, perhaps Richard J. Lanham, M.D., himself, sit down to $200 Christmas Day dinners after unwrapping a few thousand dollars worth of presents in the safety of their well-heated, well-constructed, home?

[Buzz Clik]

9. Dr. L clearly found out about the Christmas pickle the hard way.

He is now scarred and bitter.

[originalpckelly]

10. Washing dishes is "sadistic"?

:rofl:

What a fucking idiot.

[novalib]

11. I HOPE "Dr" Lanham's "Patients....

I DO HOPE that "Dr" Lanham's "oatients know that the man is an IDIOTIC MORONIC STUPIDHEAD!!!!!

[Beausoleil]

13. God forbid

Nelson should find a lump of coal in his stocking!

I guess the M.D. stands for "Moderately Demented".

[sinkingfeeling]

14. Does the 'doctor' know the definition of 'sadistic'?

[Mz Pip]

15. Surprise!

You have to wash the dishes!

How sadistic!

Mz Pip
:dem:

[in_cog_ni_to]

16. HUH? What's so offensive about that? Me thinks the good doctor needs to GET A LIFE!

Sheesh.:eyes:

[Initech]

19. Maybe he's had different reasons for "hiding the pickle"...

[evlbstrd]

17. What?

No reference to "hide the pickle"?

[SmokingJacket]

18. M.D. stands for "mentally deficient" I guess. nt

[ChrisCat]

20. Sadistic? My kids would find the cartoon funny.

The pickle finder at our house always wins a chocolate orange. After the other kids feign disappointment, we bring out chocolate oranges for each of the rest of the kids. Everybody wins, same thing every year. They would laugh their tails off if I told them next year the winner gets to do the dishes, especially because the same kid finds it every single year!

[EC]

21. Is he kidding?

Probabley read more into it...although I don't know what? Is washing dishes a bad thing or something?

[eppur_se_muova]

22. That's an old-fashioned Christmas pickle, the modern ones are electric ...

http://ygraine.membrane.com/hubris/notes/electric_pickle.html

SPEAKER VOLUME ALERT!! The background noise was recorded at WAY too high a volume!




http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/imgele/electricpickle.MOV

When I was a boy, we couldn't afford a Christmas pickle ... we lived a simple life, but we were happier then.

[MetaTrope]

23. But if we can get conservatives to stop fucking idiots, maybe no more will be bred

:think:

[proud patriot]

24. cute comic

I don't see anything offensive .

[Virginia Dare]

25. Sadism??

making a kid wash the dishes? WTF????

[Parche]

26. PICKLES

Who wants to find Laura Bush on Christmas?

[candidate]

27. Logic 101

Washing dishes = sadistic

Electrodes on testicles and naked human pyramids = fun college initiation rituals

[Critters2]

28. People this humorless should just avoid the comics page altogether. nt

[spoony]

29. He had his license revoked, lol

There is only one match in a search of NY licensees, that is here:

http://www.nysed.gov/coms/op001/opscr2?profcd=60&plicno=116317

Name : LANHAM RICHARD JOHN
...
Status : LICENSE REVOKED

lol. Didn't find anything indicating conservatism, however.

Then there's this:

http://w3.health.state.ny.us/opmc/factions.nsf/0/878115b7bd14159f85256e47005cd7ce?OpenDocument

"The Review Board sustained the Hearing Committee's August 22, 2005 determination finding the physician guilty of gross negligence and negligence and incompetence on more than one occasion.The Review Board overturned the Hearing Committee's penalty of suspension for ten years, stayed with probation for ten years and revoked the physician's medical license."

[Catherine Vincent]

30. The good doctor must have a pickle fetish. n/t

:rofl:

[Zhade]

31. Yes. Yes they are.

Conservatism is a near-dead ideology, and one TOTALLY UNWELCOME AT DU, per this site's founding statement.

(Just reminding our conservative 'friends' that their ideology is NOT welcome here.)

[spoony]

33. Yeah, we know, you don't like ConservativeDemocrat

You've made it very clear. Him nor anyone not meeting your strict requirements. It must just kill you to know you can't ban people.

[XanaDUer]

32. Geez. I thought it was something about Laura Bush.

What is the big freaking deal?

[MisterP]

34. howzabout when the Chimp campaign used CCR's "Fortunate Son" as their theme?