Of Course, You Realize, This Means War

The P-I's Joel Connelly fires a shot across the Stranger's bow this morning with a satirical column titled "Peer into future after car ban -- it isn't pretty."

Connelly depicts Seattle's dystopian future, in which automobiles, smoking, erections, and unhealthy food have all been banned, and Stranger writers are the city's icons:

The "Bicycle Blockade of Ballard Oil" is a heroic painting that officials frequently show their guests from "the outside."... The mural depicts its chief agitator, the radical journalist Erica Barnett, in a Delacroix-like pose with a bicycle chain thrust into the air.

Connelly, who recently celebrated his 863rd birthday (Delacroix?), also obliquely refers to the Stranger staff as "a cadre of young Capitol Hill writers dubbed the 'trust fund kids.'" oh...SNAP!

UPDATE: Dan Savage responds in a rather measured, understated way, which may be a Stranger first.

UPDATE: Nobody does sarcasm better than Erica C. Barnett: (Confidential to Connelly: Want to see my credit-card and student-loan debt? I’ll send copies to both your houses. )