Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 23, 2013

It pays to leave your options open. Good critical thinking skills.

@ragarmsI really hate saying much to the sarge. He thinks he has truth bottled up and ready to sell. It ain’t nothing but everclear.

Alex home-schooling…now there’s an interesting thought! Actually, I can kind of see it, and it’s not that far from the way some of my friends raised their kids (decades ago, of course, LOL).

Shouldn’t Alix give leo some choice in the color scheme?

SNAP!

Memo to self – read to bottom before replying…

Neither my wife nor I have any color sense or decorating sense. “We should paint this room a different color.” What color do you want? “I dunno. What color do you want?” I dunno. Red? Blue? Green? “We could flip a coin.” Just not white. The whole house is painted white. -—- We actually ended up hiring a consultant! -- So none of your stereotyping, sirs! The person who chooses the colors should be the one that has a preference and an opinion. That can be both, either, or neither.

@Arye Uygur

You’ve never been married, have you (or, at least, you haven’t yet fully grasped the concept …) ?

After 31 years, I ask my husband what color he likes, and he says “eggplant”… ;-)

Change of plan, forget the pot farm, THIS IS A JOB FOR ZONKA

Re: wonder if she plans to home schoolI figured it was her plan for saving for college!

Classic husband vs wife battle…we recently had a battle of the sexes oriented trivia game on Toon Trivia by Ricig here on GoComics. Good fun…hope to see some of you there.

videocams are for extortion when the kids think they have all grown up.

The baby picture are revenge. When they bring that special some one over they intend to marry… ohh look! This is the little darling taking the first bath and this one was when sweet’ums..

Yep, a parents job of embarrassing the kid is never done.. LOL

“to settle disputes?”LMAO!! Thanks GT

Yes, siblings will have disputes…:)I hear Justin Bieber had a video on youtube, then became an overnight sensation. He had a single mom and they had just been barely scraping along before the youtube big break.

I had a friend when I lived in Rome, who announced to her husband one evening that she wanted to paint the dining room purple. He diplomatically told her that maybe she should think about that for a while…she did. Three months later he arrived home from work to a gloriously purple dining room!

Good to hear they are moving out of the trailer into an apartment! Movin’ on up!

Have anything new on Madonna? Ooh ouch, you so hurt my feelings…

My wife called me to ask me to bring home some 7-Up. I said, “OK, 7-Up.” I got home and put the 7-Up on the table, and she said, “Where’s the ginger ale?”

Rule #1

If the wife ain’t happythen noboby is happy.

There are plenty of talentless people on YouTube.

Homeschooling became a conservative movement a while ago. I wonder if most HS families are Cons?

@Arye Uygur

Well, I’ve been married (twenty years) and I was the wife component of that marriage, and my husband and I enjoyed making all of those kinds of decisions together. We were both artistically inclined, and while we didn’t do anything fancy with the walls, the color choices were always made jointly. And we were always happy with the results. (Except, now that I come to think of it, that very first kitchen that we painted before we understood how much more intense a bright, sunny yellow is on the walls than it is on the little paper strip. We lived with that yellow for five years, and never made that mistake again!)

Dilbert has an interesting take on what a PhD is today. And some of the comments on the official page are even better.

Ohhh Alex is dating herself, she said “tape”.

Today it’s just “record”, as it’s so much more non-specific as to storage media.

This strip was written by old people for old people. This would make so much sense to youngsters they wouldn’t get the joke.

“Tape” is one of those terms that outlives its original meaning and applies to its successor technology, like “carbon copy” (or CC:) and “film”. People of any age are going to be using it to refer to video recording even when the video is holographic.

Well, ComicsFan, now you know what we were talking about….

he is funny

" Is he/she Libby or Conservy?’Well, he types like he thinks he conservative, but he’s actually just confused.(Excuse me while I duck – INCOMING!)

Alex is in favor of early exploitation.

I see Alex is taking after her mother after all….

No comments along the lines of “Yep, Alex is her mother’s daughter” today? That was MY first thought.

Before you render judgement on Sarge, could you at least tell him you consider yourself a conservative?

My husband had better decorating skills than I and a swifter decision-making capacity; I would sometimes query a little change but not usually. Stereotypes can be useful if neither party challenges or feels diminished but better results come from an open exchange of ideas.

“I guess that also means an equal number of people disapproved of G.W. then as disapprove of Presdient Obama now.”

Actually, it doesn’t. 48% approval doesn’t mean 52% disapproval, because “Neither approve nor disapprove” is one of the choices in those polls.

’ Bush’s approval rating in the May after he won his second term…. 48%’Red, I think you mean ‘stole his second election’. .If you remember, after this his job approval went down to the thirties, permanently. I remember a commentator saying that if he could deliver a solid 40%, the republicans would keep the house. He didn’t, and they didn’t, thank God.