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Nobody fucks with Paul Constant's entertainment medium of choice and lives!

Posted by Bellevue Ave | July 18, 2008 4:35 PM
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Did the guys who do Trouble Town draw this?

Posted by jackie treehorn | July 18, 2008 4:40 PM
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So the good ole boys are pro sodomy?

Interesting place, Oklahoma.

Posted by Mike in Olympia | July 18, 2008 4:40 PM
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Looks like someone's been reading too many Chick tracts. Too bad they couldn't even reach Chick's modest level of artistic skill and writing ability. Woof.

Posted by Matthew | July 18, 2008 4:41 PM
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That's the best they can do to represent the Prince of Darkness? Who on earth would be afraid of a devil that looks like that.
One wonders too, what sorts of sodomy are ther other than the anal variety, and are they unproblematic. Perhaps he's homonymically challanged and misunderstood someone's having mentioned naval sodomy.

Posted by kinaidos | July 18, 2008 4:42 PM
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CHOKE ON THE SONICS, MUTHERFUCKERS!

Posted by Clay Bennett Is A Secret Sissy-Boy | July 18, 2008 4:46 PM
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I think every single sentence is either misspelled or outright grammatically incorrect.

Posted by A | July 18, 2008 4:46 PM
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This dude's office is located about three blocks from the Ford Center. Go Sonics!

Posted by DOUG. | July 18, 2008 4:47 PM
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#5, sodomy is anything but vaginal intercourse, basically.

Oral, anal, masturbation, fucking goats...

Posted by w7ngman | July 18, 2008 4:53 PM
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Let's hope the Sonics losing streak carries over to him.

Posted by Will in Seattle | July 18, 2008 5:01 PM
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"Let's hope the Sonics losing streak carries over to him."

No worries. Even if they are champs, they're still losers - they're in fucking Oklahoma, after all. The only people who stay there are the ones too dumb to leave, and the only ones who go there are people biding their time until they get a promotion that takes them to one of the coasts.

The sad, sad story of the whole midwest, reallly....

Posted by Where the fuck is Oklahoma? | July 18, 2008 5:07 PM
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That Satan's face looks like a tracing of a Groening character.

Posted by eustaceia | July 18, 2008 5:13 PM
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re-elected in a landslide! yes, okies are that dumb.

Posted by max solomon | July 18, 2008 5:18 PM
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"I'm not bat-shit crazy - I'm just drawn that way!"

Posted by COMTE | July 18, 2008 5:41 PM
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"Roads scholars program?" That is teh awesome. I guessw that means he like to read on the side of the road. that is some real OK excitement!

Posted by wisepunk | July 18, 2008 5:45 PM
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Evening, Com-missioner Rinehart.

Posted by Marcel Duchump | July 18, 2008 6:00 PM
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Weirdly enough, the "Roads Scholar" program is a real thing: Oklahoma County Roads Scholar Program

The Roads Scholar Program, which began in Oklahoma on 1993, is an educational series designed specifically for County Commissioners, County Road Foreman, and other County Road employees. The program consists of nine courses, totaling 120 hours of training, and is designed to blah blah blah blah blah.

"[B]egan in Oklahoma on 1993"???

Maybe I'd get it if I was a Roads Scholar.

Posted by rain | July 18, 2008 6:40 PM
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Oh my God, this guy makes Jack Chick look like Rembrandt...

Posted by RainMan | July 18, 2008 8:20 PM
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The official new name of the Sonics: the Oklahoma City Anal Sodomites.

Posted by kebabs | July 18, 2008 8:28 PM
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The comic book is hilarious, and I myself have had several hours of chortling over it.

But I am also from Oklahoma City - and I can tell you that this does NOT represent the worldview of the vast majority of Oklahomans or Republicans - as evidenced by the many quotes from Oklahoma public officials (many Republicans) and academics who rightly condemn Rinehart. The Oklahoman, OKC's flagship newspaper, condemned the comic book in a scathing editorial this week.

Rinehart is a mentally-disturbed narcissist with a penchant for pencil mustaches and corruption, and his (few) supporters are very unbalanced people. He is not indicative of Oklahoma City - any more than the nutty Dallas County Commissioner in Texas who accused a person who used the term "black hole" of being racist is indicative of Texas.

Oklahoma City is a thriving metroplex of more than a million people (named by Forbes as among the top 10 recession proof cities, while a suburb, Norman, was named the 6th best small city in America by Money Magazine last week).

I also hope that those with an axe to grind against Christianity will not somehow take this comic book as indicative of a Christian worldview. Frankly, that’s like shooting fish in a barrel. This is a theologically-bankrupt work, if I may put it bluntly. Christians do not believe in a little midget-man Satan with a pitch fork, nor in malnourished angels with magic wands - any more than we believe heaven is filled with angels playing harps (see C.S. Lewis for a better explication of this). Nor do the vast majority of Christians spend their lives looking for a "homosexual conspiracy" everywhere. That’s a caricature of a caricature of a caricature.

If you’re an atheist, and wish to dispute Christianity, I would not use this comic book for the foundation of your arguments. It is not at all a representation of Christian beliefs - but is instead the product of a diseased mind.

One aspect of this “comic book” requires a little background - the references to “liberal good ol’ boys”: You should know that the Oklahoma was controlled by a one-party corrupt Democratic machine for its first century (the state just celebrated the centennial). This only has recently changed, but Rinehart is playing on old superstitions about corrupt Democrats who ran the state for so long - and literally almost ran the state into the ground because of THEIR culture of corruption.

Posted by Arenap | July 19, 2008 9:10 AM
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Dan Savage advocates for the Iraq War in The Stranger--Oct. 2002

"War may be bad for children and other living things, but there are times when peace is worse for children and other living things, and this is one of those times."

"In the meantime, invading and rebuilding Iraq will not only free the Iraqi people, it will also make the Saudis aware of the consequences they face if they continue to oppress their own people while exporting terrorism and terrorists. The War on Iraq will make it clear to our friends and enemies in the Middle East (and elsewhere) that we mean business: Free your people, reform your societies, liberalize, and democratize... or we're going to come over there, remove you from power, free your people, and reform your societies for ourselves."

Posted by ................... | July 19, 2008 10:23 PM
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The comic tends to offend the ones who are characterized here ... or as certain truths are exposed. The gay bashing kind of threw me for a loop ... why is that important to a County Commissioner running for re-election, and the gladiator jail information is untrue .. jailers have never been trained to bash heads and whatever else was said about this gladiator piece ... other than that .. the rest seems pretty funny and true.

Posted by jimspolice | July 19, 2008 11:42 PM
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I particularly enjoyed the poor grammar and even poorer spelling. So apropos!

Posted by iheartsodomy | July 21, 2008 1:29 PM

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