Now I don't want to get off on a rant here but I'm talking about that pathetic excuse for a comic strip that appears in my Sunday paper involving that ugly bird-nest haired fat girl and her bald "my parents dress me stoopid" friend. Something happened to Nancy a few years ago, it used to be bad, but not nearly as bad as it is now. I don't know what the deal was, but at first I thought they were reprinting old Nancy's from ninteen-ought-seven or what not, which would have been an acceptable excuse for the horrific anti-humor. Then I noticed there were references to computers, the internet, country-pop stars, etc, and I came to the sudden realization that this was a modern day comic strip. The only explanation for the change could be that they finally found a way to directly transfer rancid goat diarrhea to paper in the form of a comic strip, I mean who on this planet actually enjoys reading Nancy? If you do, email me at charney@cale.com, and tell me why. It makes me sick just reading it, who are these losers that write it, Guy and Brad Gilchrist? What are they thinking! Do they have any human contact whatsoever? Are they stranded on some desert island creating these badly drawn, completely un-funny comic strips and faxing them to the newspaper? Now, I'm not about to say the other comic strips in the paper are good, God no. I mean Family Circus, what a bunch of sentimental horse $#!+, or Gil Thorpe, what kind of hunchback cavern dwelling troglodyte keeps up with that gripping storyline. I could go on for hours about this, but Nancy just hurts the most. There are plenty of good comic strips out there, so why is my newspaper and most others, printing this "humor"? What can we do about this? Nothing, because I'm sure these guys have contracts dating back to the dawn of the printing press saying the papers must print this ignorant drivel. Even if they didn't, the papers wouldn't print anything of quality anyway because the sea of conformity and assembly line tastes of today's average newspaper reader wouldn't be able to comprehend that they had to actually use a little bit of brain power to read the comics page. Maybe you think I'm over reacting, but go read a Nancy comic strip, just any random one, and think that people are being paid to produce this. Good Lord.