Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau

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  1. Linguist

    Linguist said, 4 months ago

    Oh boy, do I relate to that !

  2. Linguist

    Linguist said, 4 months ago

    You might be well advised to do so. :)

  3. Night-Gaunt49

    Night-Gaunt49 said, 4 months ago

    Even writers have crap days and it could show in their writing.

  4. Richard S. Russell

    Richard S. Russell said, 4 months ago

    Oh, oh, I didn’t know that writer’s block was, um, uh, ….

  5. gmartin997

    gmartin997 said, 4 months ago

    I didn’t think he was paid anything anyway. What, he’s got a deadline?

  6. bhinkle

    bhinkle said, 4 months ago

    GOP Retreat? How is that newsworthy? “GOP Retreat” is not the phrase used nowadays – now it is “compromise”. Kids, compromise still means give and take.
    It is just that now the full, historic definition means – give us (Obama, Reid, Pelosi) what we want, and we will take it and more.
    Just watch – after the historic Standard & Poors downgrade what changed? What happened during the fiscal cliff? – the GOP eventually ‘compromised’ by caving-in. What will happen with the debt ceiling? – what has always happened. Obama will teleprompt, Reid will lie – and “compromise” will happen when they get what they want when the GOP caves-in.
    You want “Historic”? Look at Executive Orders 13532 and 13621.
    Truly historic.
    There would have been riots if Clinton had signed similar orders for Historically White / … for Caucasians.
    And those were just down payments for the 93%.
    And now BHO is working on paying for the 73% – his fast path for all.
    Wonder if we’ll have to pass it to see what is in it!!

  7. masterskrain

    masterskrain said, 4 months ago

    Looks like Rick is heading towards a major life change…

  8. Larry

    Larry said, 4 months ago

    Is it earlier than I thought, or do most of you have writer’s block?

  9. mabrndt

    mabrndt said, 4 months ago

    @DTπ – Paraphrasing: on Sunday you used the copyright date to “prove” the strip wasn’t a repeat, I said that wasn’t dependable, you said changing it is illegal, and for the last 2 days we had an exchange about legalities. I want to put this to rest, even though you may, based on a your comment near the end of yesterday, not see it.

    First, it may not be as widespread as I had thought. I went to the other strips where I thought I had seen it, and the creator used the original copyright while on vacation, even though the run date (the 1-14 at the bottom of panel 2 here) had changed.

    Second, I found an example showing it isn’t illegal to change the copyright. The For Better or For Worse strip is in rerun; but each repeat has the current year in the copyright, rather than the year it was first published. For example, today it has ©2013, rather than the ©1994 in the original. In the repeat, the 1-16 run date has been removed from the bottom of panel 2, and 1-15 added between panels 3 and 4, That it’s in color online has nothing to do with the copyright change. The b&w strip in my newspaper also has ©2013.

    I don’t know why the copyright has changed from the original. In Canada, where Lynn Johnston, the strip’s creator, resides, it’s in effect for 50 years (70 years in the U.S. after 1998) after she dies, so changing it, doesn’t extend it.

    Peanuts is also in rerun, but it has the ©1966 copyright. Perhaps that’s because its creator died February 12, 2000. Could be interesting what happens in 2050, when the copyright on most of those will run out, but those drawn after 1998 will still be copyrighted until 2070. It’s highly unlikely that I’ll be around for either.

    But there may be other examples. I just wanted to show one.

  10. SUSAN NEWMAN

    SUSAN NEWMAN said, 4 months ago

    Who sent that tweet?
    Roland Hedley??

  11. montessoriteacher

    montessoriteacher said, 4 months ago

    He does get paid, just not for blogging on huffpo.

  12. montessoriteacher

    montessoriteacher said, 4 months ago

    Come back Pi!

  13. wdgnas

    wdgnas said, 4 months ago

    @bhinkle

    boehner should have taken the deal august of 2011.

  14. Jack Straw

    Jack Straw said, 4 months ago

    The term “GOP retreat” is apropos, since they had been attacking – women’s rights, economic justice, religious freedom, to name a few, were under attack, and most likely will be again, after the GOP regroup.

  15. Nantucket19

    Nantucket19 said, 4 months ago

    @bhinkle

    Bush earmarked a LOT of money and programs for religious organizations – as I recall there is something about that in the Constitution…..

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