Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 08, 2013

Vanity, thy name is Mark

The main characters all see each other often enough that it shouldn’t really matter. I don’t imagine they’d interact much with other people.

@Newshound41

I just read an article on the Benghazi hearings. It’s turning into a real cluster. Now there are State Department officials saying the White House did try to cover some things up. I know this is a partial reversal of some of my statements. However, fair is fair. Personally, I go back to my own rant, get them all out of Washington and start fresh.

It must have something to do with Benghazi.

Huh? Benghazi? Please go annoy other people.

lol, imagine that! Benghazi is the cause of everything nowadays. even why this comic is having a reunion, i gather. lol. these “losers” have to yell Fire! to get attention, which doesn’t happen anymore. just like little children who can’t get their way. hilarious that Mark is so concerned about his looks. time is not kind to those kind of image conscious people. unless you are… from Benghazi!! those kind of people are stuck in Benghazi forever! lol

Gulp! reminds me that my 55th reunion is coming up this summer. Gotta go polish my walker….

It always has gone back and forth. Many story-lines have dealt with the characters’ interpersonal issues.

I dream of showing up and being the cool guy this time.

Go as you are Mark.

Trudeau has always gone back and forth between the personal and political except when he’s intertwined them, right? Perhaps he’s sick of politics because it never changes.

Here’s a quote I came upon in a book I’m reading about Lyndon Johnson: “the Senate of the U.S. no longer has any resemblance to that August assembly which provoked the admiration of the Tocquevilles (Alexis de Tocqueville, author of “Democracy in America,” 1835). It would be no use looking for the foremost men of the nation there; neither statesmen nor orators are to be found in it. The body is filled with men of mediocre or no political intelligence, some of whom, extremely wealthy, multi-millionaires, look on the Senatorial dignity as a title for ennobling their well or ill-gotten riches and with crack wirepullers and party bosses who find the Senate a convenient base of operations for their intrigues and designs on the public interest.” This paragraph was written in 1902.

The author of the book devotes many pages to the Senate and how it was set up to thwart the will of the people and protect the weatlhy landowners from the “tyranny of the majority”. Reading it reminds me of how difficult a thing democracy is, how uneven and unfair life is and how important it is to have a very long and wide perspective on events and especially how difficult change is. The Southern Caucus controlled the Senate for a very long time thwarting any meaningful change in civil rights, labor rights, and all progressive measures. Does the name Richard Russell mean anything to anyone reading this? Are they still doing that today?

You mean it veered away from what was happening in college, don’t you? Seems like a reunion would be just the thing!

Hey! If you don’t have a comment on the day’s strip and just want to rant about your political agenda, go find a site to do that. Leave the comics to those who enjoy the comics.

While I belong to neither party and I do see the attacks on the moral party as just desserts, I will state that members of the Dems will get offended when they are reminded about a faux pas, and reps just take it. Both are corrupt, people. they are 2 sides of the same coin!

An eye lift be Friday? Possibly.But 20 pounds by Friday? No way.

Ugh. Trust me, at least you age better than most old farts.

@HawthorneLike I’ve said earlier, the problem I have is how the aftermath was handled. Who decided to continue with the storyline that it was spontaneous attack caused by a YouTube video when those in charge knew it was a planned terrorist attack? The reason Susan Rice was put out there was because she probably knew the least of what had happened and therefore couldn’t question the talking points she was given.Like I’ve said earlier, I voted for Obama so my criticism and doubts are not based in a partisan bias.

Recently met a friend I last saw in Junior High School. It is amazing how friendship survives the test of time.

Why does everyone seem so surprised by the reunion?

@Night-Gaunt49Like I said before, no evidence of criminal activity and nothing that could be considered an impeachable offense. As I’ve pointed out before, diplomatic sites have been attacked before with far greater losses than the ones that occurred in Benghazi.One reason that the attacks in Benghazi have received so much attention is because of the loss of the Ambassador. In April 1983, the US Embassy in Beirut was blown up. Sixty-three people – including 17 Americans – were killed in that attack. Eventhough the the Ambassador survived, the US may have lost someone of greater value – the CIA’s senior Mideast analyst. Losing someone of that stature had a detrimental effect on US operations in the Mideast.

What’s the line in Mike’s right lens of his glasses.