"Garry Trudeau is the premier American social and political satirist of his time." -Newsweek Doonesbury has managed to be articulate, abrasive, political, compassionate, misunderstood, misprinted, and outrageous - but one thing it's never been is complacent. Garry Trudeau's creation has chronicled American history and culture in a parallel universe. And through it all, Doonesbury has always been honest, entertaining, and thought-provoking.
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vwdualnomand said, 6 months ago
could be worse. could be that the class started yesterday and it is one of those 3 hour, 1 per week class.
DylanThomas3.14159 said, 6 months ago
BD is a therapist pro bono. You go, dude!
jollyjack said, 6 months ago
It used to be very important to at least make an appearance for the first class or the professor may have droped you from the class. In today’s university setting Ray may make the “quorum” needed to justify the class.
SUSAN NEWMAN
said, 6 months ago
If it’s at Walden, I doubt they’ll even notice his absence.
Coyoty
said, 6 months ago
Ray’s doomed to repeat history.
rpmurray said, 6 months ago
@Coyoty
It’s deja vu all over again
Rx71Wm29 said, 6 months ago
Either that or it is all over vu deja!
Omnius said, 6 months ago
Sad that the republicans who are so gung ho getting our troops into war now don’t want to pay for the consequences of so many wounded veterans. Time to shame the republicans into making sure our wounded vets are properly taken care of.
Augie Augenstein said, 6 months ago
Love Doonesbury. Great to see Garry highlighting real problems that in this case involve Vets who have returned from war with problems. In the past some would have swept it under the rug as happened to often during the Bush years. Good to see more being done in any case. Thank you to Mr. Trudeau for his talking about this and other important social issues all these years!
fishbulb239 said, 6 months ago
@vwdualnomand
Or he could have forgotten about it all semester long, remember the class just in time for the final exam, but not know where or when the final is taking place. I’ve been out of college for, egads, more than 18 years now, and I still occasionally have those dreams.
George Alexander said, 6 months ago
Trudeau’s point is that Ray is still disconnected with reality. The point is NOT about the consequences of Ray’s tardiness or lateness. Capiche?
Potrzebie said, 6 months ago
Isn’t this the re-reun about the history proffesor whom is a progressive?
DylanThomas3.14159 said, 6 months ago
@George Alexander
“Trudeau’s point is that Ray is still disconnected with reality. The point is NOT about the consequences of Ray’s tardiness or lateness.”
Ray’s tardiness or lateness RESULTS FROM his partial, episodic, desultory disconnection from reality. Such a disconnection RESULTS FROM an undefined or ill-defined brain injury. This brain injury WAS SUSTAINED in W. Bush’s hideous war.
A lot of vets have such problems. Trudeau is reminding us that such problems still exist and persist in our society at home. He’s doing it in a gently humorous way.
But Ray has been unable to get decent help, evidently, from VA services. Hence he has fallen back on his old war buddy BD.
In war BD would have died under fire if Ray had not saved his life. The ever-grateful BD is helping his buddy.
Trudeau’s genius is shining brightly here, in this memorable rerun. And it is as relevant now as it was when it first ran.
BD was once a hyper-conservative, rightwing blockhead. Now he’s changed. I’m not exactly sure now how far his change has gone. But he’s almost a saint now. And he MAY BE against the kind of war that W.Bush lied and bullied us into: his war in Iraq.
VIVA TRUDEAU.
Kaffekup said, 6 months ago
‘Time to shame the republicans into making sure our wounded vets are properly taken care of.’
unfortunately, you can’t shame those who have no shame.
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I’m hoping that when GT comes back, he’ll do an arc on the republicans trying to pick Obama’s cabinet for him.
DylanThomas3.14159 said, 6 months ago
“… you can’t shame those who have no shame.”
Indeed not. That’s why I’m hoping that the American electorate will deal the Republicans another blow at the polling places during the 2014 midterms. Enough of a blow to give the Democrats a majority in the House of Representatives. It would have to be a so-called “wave election”, the kind that upsets the pundits on both sides.
The Democrats are far from ideal, as we are reminded by the likes of Amy Goodman et al. on Pacifica radio and by Ralph Nader, he of seatbelts-in-vehicles fame. But they’re light-years ahead of the Republicans in terms of dealing with America’s problems.
Ya gotta start somewhere. So start from where ya are.