Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 27, 2013

An alternative rerun:http://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2006/11/23BD meets Rev Sloan’s ethics class.Thanks for the kind comments.Mike

Speaking of Reverend Sloan, has anyone besides me ever confused him for Rick? I mean, he looks just like Rick would, if Rick ever got his head stuck in and yanked out of a metal pipe…maybe they’re twins somehow.

@ SUSAN NEWMANLeft you a message near the end of yesterday’s postings. Hope you saw it.All of my best to you. GMc

From context there has never been any doubt which is which, but yes, I, too, have felt that they look very much alike.

a “soul crushing monstrosity” – sounds like many of the top denominations itself.

The “church” of the holy blogger?

Thanks, JP, for that last sentence….too true and too needed

Religion is, Faith is not.That is why Jesus hated religion

Wendy Davis for Governor of Texas !

And who really cares? I know you’re just pretending to.

@John Pike

“Anyway, I’ll make a point now. What racism, classism, and bigotry are all about is to keep Americans at war with one another, literally. “There are people who profit mightily from us being a divided and, eventually, downtrodden, people.””

John Pike, I swoon ..!

Thank you, thank you, thank you. I keep trying to say this, but I think you’ve said it better! I hope we don’t have to do this for twenty years before it starts to take; I don’t think we have another twenty years.

Great comment.

“Why does Wendy Davis oppose Hillary Clinton’s position so strongly?”

That’s an excellent question. Not that Hillary doesn’t sound pretty good on that, but that statement isn’t exactly an equivocal endorsement for women’s independence in contraceptive terms.

But her opposition may be based on some other opinion entirely. The whole world doesn’t consider the private matter of abortion to be of earth shattering importance. I’d guess her opposition is based on another issue.

You bet I do, and I, for one, am no punk. I also know you are no fan of Hillary Clinton and are just using her to attack someone whose shoes you couldn’t shine. In other words, another worthless opinion fom the right.

“Do I feel lucky?” Well, do ya, punk?”.Ahh, the Right, making up for what they lack in charm and humility with arrogance and threatening postures.Always a clASS act.

Up against you, I don’t have to be lucky because I know you will beat yourself.

Does the NSA conduct a vaginal probe when a woman is making one of the most difficult decisions in her life?

Two questions:1- Were you this concerned about your loss of privacy when the Patriot Act was passed and the previous President had carte blanche?2- Have you criticized or spoken out against the transvaginal probe rules that have been passed in several states since they clearly violate her right and do not serve any medical purpose?

A straight question deserves a straight answer but I guess that is asking too much from you.-The sturdy men of Enland who presented the Magna Carta to King John were barons and other landed gentry. They made their fortune off the toil of their serfs.

Study your English History. Start with the Peasants Revolt.You have gone from the NSA to Magna Carta to Food Stamps but you can’t give a straight answer to a simple question;Were you that concerned about your privacy when the Patriot Act was passed and the previous president had carte blanche?

Not unless she is wearing hijab, so I’m told, but I sincerely hope it isn’t true. Certainly other women are in no way exempt from full body searches, if the agents deem it desireable. All the way up through grandmothers, npi.

Not sure what relevancy this has, though.

Roe vs Wade has been in the crosshairs since it was first ratified.

There is a substantial contingent of old, white men who refuse to acknowledge women’s rights to make any decision on their own behalf, much less one which has sexual innuendos.

Maybe you could explain to us why that misogynist core consider it so important to the country to keep as many women bred and in production as possible?

This is something I have never been able to understand.

This country appears to foster sociopathy and bullying as functional social strategies.

This should be good enough reason to declare the social engineering experiment a failure and abandon it.

Unless, of course, the government has a reason to foster and protect such a population.

Flip a coin ..?

I wish I could get my comment from this morning back. It has disappeared. But I’ll end the day with the same appeal:

Let’s break the shackles of corporatism and learn to live with one another as neighbors. We must come together to survive.

I wouldn’t make a good senator. I couldn’t stand for the bulls**t. If I were there, I might make it look like the recent uproar in the Japanese Diet.