Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 31, 2011

Maybe, you should of given the dolls to a toy drive.

Poor Sarah!

Well, LWP, maybe there’s still hope Sam will change her mind and do something more humanitarian with the dolls. All except for the Sarah Palin doll. Note that she still sports her adult-Doonesbury eyes while her mom still carries the ante-adult ones. Even at 12, she seems to have more brains than Mom ‘n’ Pop combined, not to mention her inter-personal skills. Witness how she handles the whacked-out Ray and wigged-out Zonk such that even the ever-watchful, over-protective BD trusts her with them and them with her (despite her obvious jailbait looks). I mean, the kid’s already potentially Elizabeth Warren material! However, the Toy Story movies must give us pause! Suppose she does donate the dolls. Imagine that SP doll un-loosed in a young childrens’ orphanage! I mean, what havoc would it wreak? All I can say, fuzzy bears, is — stay tooned.  

Not meaning to say BD’s a wuss-over. He has military training and combat experience. Anybody who’d touch one strand of that kid’s blond hair in lust would end up as dog food. It’s just that he’s a rather keen judge of character.

Panel 3: Sam’s silhouette when lying on her side.

Panel 4: Is that Alice?

Oops! (Apologies to Rick Perry.) I got it wrong. In Disney’s “Alice in Wonderland” it’s the Queen of Hearts who “lives up in the palice.” To wit, sings the March Hare lustily: We must chat about a very important matter.I’m off to see the Queen of Heartswho lives up in the palace,and the very moment I’m through with herI’ve got a date with Alice.I can’t be late for Aliceor the Queen of Hearts who lives up in the palace.I’m late.

I mean, imagine the SP doll inciting preschoolers in a “mom ‘n’ pop” orphanage. A mom ‘n’ pop who’re running the place on a shoestring. On charity wages. A mom ‘n’ pop who — gasp! actually voted FOR Obama! Imagine her inciting them to a rebellion against Mom ‘n’ Pop. their “dirty commie oppressors”! Inciting them to a Second ’Merican Revolution! She could have them burning the place to the ground.

No, Sam. Leave the SP doll to her well-deserved fate, the trash heap of history. Rescue only the others.

Is GT commenting on S.P.s current stature in the last frame?

Then after the poverty-striken orphanage was burned to the ground, SP doll could convince the children to offer their little bodies for work (a la Newt Gingrich) to Suffer Little Children Charter School to clean toilets at 15¢ per hour like I had to do. Only I was 15 and had a shot, which I took, working my way through boarding hgh school in a much-higher-paying wood mill. Imagine the real Sarah Palin in the Presidency repealing all child labor laws! Fear not, fuzzy bears, the Teapartiers won’t rest well till they have us back to the pre-Enlightenment dark ages. And make no mistake, the John Glover Roberts, Jr., Supreme Court will back her to the hilt. And I do mean the knife hilt that she uses to—. You know exactly what I mean. Thank the good Lord we’ve got Trudeau to point out some of these Teapartier pitfalls before they happen. So if you happen to live in Massachusetts, SUPPORT ELIZABETH WARREN’S RUN FOR TEDDY KENNEDY’S OLD SEAT now soiled by the likes of Scott Brown.

Ending the year on a good note.Good work GT and a happy happy to all of you.

I have some large pins and can look up Voodoo chants if you just send me the Palin doll.

I heard a report on NPR saying that food drives fail because those on the other end of the NGO (non-governmental organization) are adamant: they DON’T WANT canned goods, for instance, or any kind of food in any kind of rapper. What do they want? Money. Cash. The reason is that they can get foods from businesses (companies that own supermarkets) way cheaper than they can get it even for free — because of the costs of collection, sorting, etc. When they buy in bulk, especially at a donated discount, they can buy the food that they choose — say frozen turkeys left over from Thanksgiving at a price far cheaper than the FREE frozen turkeys given by ordinary folk from their freezers. Plus, there are security issues. The NGO charity folks must secure the food to make sure that no terrorist-in-hiding gives them poisoned turkey, or poisoned anything.  The children don’t eat toys, of course, but toys can be sabatoged by hidden anthrax, for instance. The NGO charity wants NEW DOLLS IN ORIGINAL PACKAGING. This way TOYS R. US, for instance, can get rid of unsold, unpopular dolls in bulk. A creative Trudeau can solve such a problem, of course, since he has total control.  He does have one limitation: He must make the story line convincing to his readers. When I give away valuable stuff, for instance, my newish IBM “ball” typewriter, I took it to the nearest post office and put it on one of the tables in the area where people have their indoor mailboxes. Or leave items OUTSIDE a recycling center.

Almost no little girl,( having been one and raised one), throws her dolls in the trash. Yes, change is good, change is essential, but we give our dolls to the Goodwill, or the Salvation Army, etc., So that they can gain new life with another child,( a la Toystory 3, as Dylan Thomas3.14159 said.) What will happen, Garry T? You’re leading up to something; what is it?

sorry – never was relevant!

I’m starting to like Garretson more and more. That’s a scary thing!

Trudeau’s capacity nowadays for cheap shots is truly astonishing, and I’m not even one of Sarah Palin’s supporters. Disagreeing with someone does not require trashing them. And I used to admire Trudeau years ago for his impartiality, back when he’d take on anyone, regardless of party affiliation or whether they were liberal or conservative. Those days are long since over, unfortunately.

DT’s an old dude just like me. Give him a break.

I am an East Coaster who suffers from insomnia.

I was going to mention a fountain pen, but you put it much better.

Rock on DT. I support your right of free speech. That is, while we still have it. Happy New Year Y’all!!!

yes! Sarah’s 15 minutes of fame is finally over!!! Yay! Now about Michelle Bachmann…

Henry Spencer (from yesterday), yeah, I’ve seen “A Boy and His Dog,” too (although not in years). And I in no way want to disparage Lynch’s accomplishment in “Eraserhead”. I’m glad I saw it, but I’d go a mile out of my way to avoid seeing it again. It’s too creepy. It doesn’t give me bad dreams, it’s like having a bad dream.

“I could be bounded in a nutshell and consider myself a king of infinite space…but that I’ve seen ‘Eraserhead.’”