Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 12, 2011

…and here are some scenes from next week’s episode.

I posted the following message yesterday to DT Pi. I will post it one final time:

I know you were upset by some of the comments posted last week regarding Roz coming out and have not posted since but I believe you are being unfair by cutting off all interaction on this strip.Your contributions were highly appreciated by many here and added to both to the quality and pleasure of the debate. Please consider rejoining us.Regards,LWP

This strip helps in fitting together GBT’s intertwined narratives. We know the scene is Boston (or just across the Charles, near M.I.T.) where Alex is pursuing her graduate studies in computer engineering and where her grandmother Joanie has come to work on the Warren campaign.(Did you hear yesterday’s exchange between EW and Scott Brown? Asked how she got through college, EW replied, “By keeping my clothes on.” To which S[o]B—-who once posed for Cosmopolitan—-retorted, “Thank God.”)Alex’s remark in the first panel is meant for East Coast readers. (I remember as a Californian going East to college and hearing some Bostonians discuss a friend’s move to San Francisco. “Why would she want to live 3000 miles from the ocean?”) Alex grew up in Seattle with Mike and (before their divorce) her mother, J.J. (who also lives in Seattle with her ne’er-do-well second husband Zeke). Seattle is where Leo lives in his trailer, next to his mother’s.A few posters yesterday commented on Joanie’s political adventures in the Bay Area forty years ago. With this arc, GBT has decided to move his political scene back East from Seattle (where we last saw Alex and Mike confront the NRA types who were packing heat in Starbucks).I expect GBT’s next political strips—-and remember, they’re drawn at least two weeks in advance—-will focus somehow on OWS. Who lives in New York? Drew? Isn’t that where Jeff goes to discuss his book with Becca Bickle (who promised him a publication date of 14 Nov.)?

Yes, come back DT. Unfortunately there will always be morons out there who delight in making ignorant and neanderthal comments. Your comments were worth far more than their underdeveloped opinions.

Good luck avoiding adventures as Doonesbury characters.

I dunno about the “sit” part, but sharing is socialism, which is halfway to “commie.”

and so back to the strip … I’d go with the sit-com idea – how ’bout Cybill Shepherd as Joanie? And for JJ ?

I can almost hear the tune that starts with “Come and knock at our door…” playing at the moment.

“Dick” Cheney was a FIVE-TIME draft dodger. Killed and wounded thousands of Americans in a pointless war still going on. Added a trillion dollars to a debt that we’ll be paying off for a least another generation.I can’t name a single individual, foreign or domestic, who has inflicted more harm on the United States.

DT π….Come back, and ignore the troublemakers. You know they get their kicks from getting others riled up.

@ DT π

It will be easy to ignore them and acknowledge those who make sense, even if you do not agree in some way.

Joanie looks a little bit like the dear departed Lacy Davenport today,doesn’t she?

A patriot is someone who is willing to sacrifice for his/her country. Soldiers are willing to sacrifice their well being. They are patriots. Liberals are willing to sacrifice some of their money in taxes. They are patriots. Right wingers just … well, they wear American Flag pins, for which they sacrificed a buck at some souvenir shop.

what has all this to do with alex learning how the hip generation parties? lamers. it’s a comic. yeesh.

DT Pi, All that is required for evil to take over, is for good men to remain silent. I know that isn’t the exact quote, and most likely you could give us the correct one in an instant. Please favor us, and rejoin the discussion.

McGovern also won the Distinguished Flying Cross.

There was a time in American history when Republicans were patriotic. I believe it was the mid-19th Century. Today, eh, not so much.

@sammysock, I read something McGovern wrote during the last five years or so – he must be around 80 by now – and his words don’t at all agree with what you wrote. You’re seriously misinformed. He’s apparently still the leftie that he always was.

@Leftwingpatriot

I am a fan of the movie Mad Mad Mad Mad World. Arnold Stang hardly appeared in that movie.

I get very nervous when anyone or anything calls themself a “patriot”. Mostly it’s a way to get people to not think.:The “Patriot Act” shredded our Constitution by suspending habeus corpus and the right to a fair trial – two things that made America unique among the world’s nations. If BO or any president decides that you’re a terrorist, you can be disappeared and never heard from again, and this has happened. This is not America.:The right wingers are the first to holler about patriotism, but their idea of it is infantile and they have no idea to what degree their emotional fervor is being used against them and their countrymen.

Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.

I just about choked on my sour dough pd, I could have gone all day without hearing about those Bostonian Philistines, but I’d like to see EW run for the board of supervisors, we need her.

And what’s up with all this recent hyperbole, “the greatest city blah, blah, blah”? Once again left wing overlooks the most beautiful city on earth, Bagdad by the Bay. I half way expect him to go “Di Nero” on us, and start calling everybody youse guys.

Joannie’s starting to look like Lacy.

Pi added some real intelligence and wit to the dialog here. Hope he comments some more.

I don’t agree with your good/bad proportion, patriot. I was listening to WNYC the other day and they were talking about how NY and NJ had something like 47th-48th worse drivers in the country (Mississippi makes everyone look artificially good, and Boston’s probably up there) and half the people in Manhattan who do have a license had to take their driving test at some upstate parking lot.

Here, the only bad thing about driving are parking tickets and pedestrians. Tickets cost a lot of money.

Top this for public transportation.

It’s not that complicated pd, we just strap it on then mosey over to Starbucks for a Double-ought buckshot latte.