Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 20, 2013

Superwoman to do this while being very pregnant with twins, and living in a trailer.

Yes, quite the accomplishment. A friend of mine gave birth to her first child three weeks before the end of her master’s program in social work. I babysat a lot. Great fun for me, a grind for her. Once it’s done, though, it is Done!

My niece did the same thing, becoming an MD while in the Air Force and having twins.She was a very busy woman.

Read the article from yesterday. Thank you. It was quite good.

I like Alex’s external restraint even though she’s whooping it up inside. And I am sure Leo will celebrate her achievement with great enthusiasm. He’s her biggest supporter. And she is his. As odd a couple as they are, I love how they click.

Alex owes a lot to her girlfriend/roomate.Who really bootstrapped her.

I detect te odor of trollatostis.

Doctor Doonesbury? Is that how she’s going to be known professionally? If so, in real life this marriage would be doomed long term.

I am married to an MD. People who are not family members call him Dr. My oldest brother has a PHD and never wants anyone to call him Dr. except at the university. He has a girlfriend who also has a PHD and never wants anyone to call her Dr. either, unless it is at the university. After the newness of having a doctorate has passed, they tend to not go by the name Dr. except at work. My bro always says that he doesn’t want to give anyone the wrong impression, as he can’t cure anything.

I guess I spoke to soon about the Refresh Comments bar yesterday.

There is still an issue with duplication, possibly due to a change in placement of the Refresh Comments bar.

You obviously forgot that she has already interviewed with DARPA and heaven knows spending at the Pentagon is not going down enough to cut jobs. Even new ones.

Leo and Alex, what a pair, great to see them succeeding. kinda gives you some hope for the future. Thanks GT!

I just read the article, also. Very interesting. I have often considered the Founding Fathers to be elitest. They were also prejudiced against blacks and the poor. The original constitution only allowed wealthy white landowners the right vote. vhh

I know this degree happened faster than the normal length of time one gets one’s phD. But does anybody remember the exact year she got her BA?

Um, that article some of the commenters keep referring to – I don’t relish wading through all yesterday’s comments to find it. Could someone please repost it? Thanks.

How does that old joke go ? I’m not a real Doctor, but I do have a PHD…

One of the oldest doctor jokes:

“What do they call the guy who graduated last in his class at medical school?”

“Doctor.”

True enough, Guard, but also nothing in the early Constitution that prohibited property ownership as being a qualification. Eligibility for voting usually depended on whether or not one was a (male) taxpayer, which implied being a property owner; non-property owners didn’t pay direct taxes and therefore was not eligible to vote Although the trend over the intervening years was a loosing of the property and tax requirement, it really wasn’t finally struck down until ratification of the 24th amendment in 1964.

And I breathlessly await the liberal arc from Prickly City and Mallard Fillmore. And yes, I’m a beautiful shade of blue!

Exactly Kaffekup. I am glad GT is still plugging away. Not really interested in a right winger strip. Would not read it or comment on it. Really not interested. My thoughts are with tornado stricken Oklahoma right now.

Can’t wait to see Toggle’s graduation. I’m sure Alex will make sure it’s a big deal.

Ask any CEO if he knows everything going on in his company.

@skepticcal Unemployment for college graduates is currently 3.9%. 100% of our research groups students have jobs in their field in 90 days, most before graduation. Our most of our Phds have to go to industry since tenure position are declining. But hey, google, amazon, intel, microsoft, etc. they all pay well especially for a MIT grad. This years crop of undergrads got a whopping $25k+ signing bonus and $100k or more per year at Amazon. The ones interning as undergrads at Google are making $40+/hr.

Leo’s all class.

You’re welcome. I agree: You can’t be a convincing speaker if you’re not a convincing listener…yes, even to the right-winger, even when it’s hard. Otherwise, it’s spitting into the wind.

Go back and read it yourself. It’s all there in black and white.

Alms, Alex is a class act, too, now that she realizes there are people besides her.

“There is NOTHING in the US Constitution back then that limited the right to vote to “wealthy landowners”.”The Constitution left it to the States to determine who had the right to vote. The Founders knew full well that meant the vote was reserved for white, male landowners. Only an ignoramus could argue that the Founders intended broad voting rights.In the elections of 1789, the first election of the new Congress, the overall number of people who were allowed to, and actually voted, was minuscule in state after state. For example, Delaware had a total state population of just over 59,000, but only 2,059 ballots were cast, meaning just 3% of the population. Georgia’s turnout was around 5%, New York about 3% and Rhode Island has what seems to have been lowest turnout of all at an abysmal 0.7%.And we think a 60% turnout is bad today.

“Golly Gee I can’t wait for the series of strips where GT spoofs the current administrations endless scandals!”When Obama sits down next to a man who has killed 200,000 of his own people, thanks to the arms & training that Obama championed, talk to me about “scandals”.Ronald Reagan with Guatemalan President Rios Montt

Concerning your response to my post yesterday: it is just hysterical that despite my being at pains not to name anyone specifically, you clearly recognized yourself in my comment and responded. Absolutely priceless! I’d say the truth hurts, but in your case, it would likely kill you if you ever acknowledged truth. But no worries, looks like you’ll live a long, long time.As for your “continuing to write the truth”, let me know when you start. It would be genuinely refreshing, but I’m not holding my breath waiting.

Oh I get plenty of the right wing perspective as a consumer of tv news shows. The liberal media is a myth unless you actively seek it out.

I also live in Kansas. No shortage of right wingers around here, so I hear plenty of GOP talking points!

I see your point in addressing the lies and distortions for the broader readership, although in this forum, I think most see them for what they are anyway. I was just coming at it from a behaviour management perspective – years of teaching high school, and now college have trained me to recognize the self-important and disruptive people in a crowd and head off their attempts to commandeer the discourse. I do stand by my calling troll, and I don’t think you were disputing that. Pretty much the dictionary definition we see here daily from a couple posters: “someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as a forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response, or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.” I’m pretty sure strangely proud of it, too.

Wrong, Guard – you don’t type the truth, you type your truth.`And really, who needs facts when you have The Truth?