Get Fuzzy Dropped For Pot Story?

Ben Towle not only writes about a recent plotline of Darby Conley's Get Fuzzy being suspended in a couple of newspaper for its teasing about pot smoking and the like before I did, he writes about it better than I could, here and here. What's interesting about this isn't only the bizarre rigidity of newspaper comic strip, it's also the fact that Conley every 18 months or so seems to drive slightly off the side of the road and starts hitting trashcans and mailboxes out of some strange need to tweak this kind of thing. Towle writes that papers dropping Conley's storyline were in Boston and Arizona -- the Arizona paper in particular is traditionally conservative (it was a Pulliam paper until being purchased by Gannett -- the Pulliams being Dan Quayle's grandparents), although political orientation doesn't tend to mean much when it comes to bouncing strips.
 
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