Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 18, 2013

Might was well go back and print out the map too.

Space Cadets!

For what it’s worth, my mom used to call me Zonker….Um….probably for no reason….

It’s almost as if Zonker doesn’t want to leave after all.

Why do you think they call it dope?

That’s one of the benefits of quitting the herb, you remember where everything is.

This is what happens when you leave a couple of liberals unsupervised.

you can change the law, the government won’t ever let pot be legalizeyd. the prison industry, the police, and the money involved in keeping it “illegal” is way too much for the government to give up.

at least with people in jail we keep the 1% happy and rich. less “little people” on the street getting in the way. lol

as one commercial i grew up watching always said, “Silly Rabbit, Trix/ Money is for the Rich” to paraphrase.

Second thoughts, or in Zonker’s case first thoughts

Blame the hoodieAssume when a person is asked to describe a suspect and he does so THAT is the reason he is considered suspicious.

Prejudice against Latinos.Sad.

And here we have a perfect example of the applicability of Freud’s The Psychopathology of Everyday Life, alive and kicking in the 21st century. http://www.audible.com/pd/ref=sr_1_7?asin=B009DQMURS.

I told you that our intrepid travelers wouldn’t make it out of Massachusetts !

prejudice against sweatshirts, stupid

I bet he didn’t forget his bong.

I’m sorry, Red, every day is a sad day for our nation now. Decline and fall, and all that, but not for the reasons our friendly neighborhood trolls think….

More like road blocks in the car.

After a lifetime of drugs the memory is the first to go.

N-G, I think the next will be the Unholy Chinese Empire and it won’t be pretty. it reminds me of Gene Hackman’s line in The Unforgiven, “I’m going to have to hurt you bad, not nice like before.”

Don’t worry Zonker, BD can send your stuff to you. And an old twist on Thomas Wolfe’s expression, “You can’t go home again because BD porobably rented out your room!” Lol!

They have to turn around anyway; they’re going east again.

Are we taking bets here as to whether they actually reach their destination or not?

Uh, yeah, Sarge, sure, that’s the ticket!

@Guard SGTI never could have done the honorable military career I did as a druggie. I would have been booted.>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Maybe you couldn’t, but I knew a lot guys, who got through real combat in "Nam by staying stoned ! This was not the exception but the norm. Brave, decorated guys who honorably served, who will tell you that, if it weren’t for Thai sticks, they wouldn’t have survived the monotony, the heat, the hatred, the blood, the horror, the military B.S., " without a little help from their friends".I’m making no judgement and neither should you. What is a druggie ? Don’t be a sanctimonious prig. What you purportedly experienced in Iraq should have made you less judgmental and more sympathetic, not the narrow minded person you’ve become.But don’t kid yourself pardner, the Military has always had a drug and alcohol problem. Read your history !

This is how the world thought in those days — which eventually made it easy for Hitler to take over and made us look the other way at the atrocities.

Weed will be federally legal by 2014, They have to do it or make laws against all drugs (Beer)

Yes the other side of Theodore Roosevelt. (He detested being called “Teddy.”) He was great in some areas but still a Nazi before there were any under that name anywhere.>>>>>>>>>>>>>An interesting observation about T.R. ( he did like being called that ). He was a mommy’s boy, with a high pitched voice, asthma and various other real and imaginary infirmities, who became, in my humble opinion, one of the finest Presidents we have had – flaws et al !An over-achiever and over-compensator ? Certainly ! The original Progressive ? Absolutely !!A Racist ? Doubtful. More of a “liberal” thinker in regards to the “American Negro” than say, Wilson ( who was a racist ).A Fascist ? Dubious at best, considering his war against the Cartels, Combine, Corporations and Monopolies.T.R. like many greats of his day – Mark Twain, Tesla, Gompers etc. were flawed products of their era but their brilliance shone through !

@Linguist “…flawed products of their era but their brilliance shone through !”

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A friend recently told me of an interesting comment made by Stephen Ambrose. He said that George Washington was a great example of how a man with a fine character but mediocre abilities could be a great President. Thomas Jefferson showed how a man with poor character but excellent abilities could also be a great President. Abraham Lincoln demonstrated that a man with exemplary character and excellent abilities could be an outstanding President.

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Not an exact quote, but close!

Speaking of freeloaders, have the taxpayers of Texas finished paying for the stadium they built for W’s team?

Depression ended, WW 2 won, Armed Forces desegregated, Marshall Plan, NATO, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Clean Water, Clean Air, equal pay and opportunity for women.

@SkeptiCal No, it doesn’t.

@Linguist Definitely agree.

I love this strip, but panel three has to have the worse automobile illustration I have ever seen in the comics or elsewhere.

I don’t know, we never did actually prosper under Bush, as I recall, it was a train wreck. And we (or at least the wealthy) are doing much better under an intelligent, ethical real leader.

I agree, I don’t drink, smoke or do drugs, and what they do at home is okay, but where someone is on a forklift, or if my life is involved I’m sorry but get tested. And I did get tested for factory work. And I’m a moderate.