Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 19, 2010

The Tweets of Roland Hedley:

“What did you see, Roland?”

All I saw: Wasilla.

“How did Sarah wear her hair?”

Odd Alaska yak salad do.

“Why are you there?”

Harass Sarah.

Well written.

“So nat’ralists observe, a flea Hath smaller fleas that on him prey, And these have smaller fleas that bite ‘em, And so proceed ad infinitum.” Jonathan Swift

Moose watching.

palin drome: entertaining stuff.

Sheik Yerbouti: nice appropriate quote.

Isn’t cutting down a tree in Alaska against some sort of federal law?

Only if there’s a grizzly bear in it, sandfan. In which case it’s against the law of common sense.

It is interesting that the story of the stalking journalist is more worthy of comment even by GT than the book this guy is writing..

Can’t cut down a tree? Where are the renewable energy people? Watching the land prices in the oil fields soar in the post-Gulf economy? Could nasty rumors start?

Have go swimming in that lake Sarah killed. Or perhaps go talk to Sarah’s high school boyfriends. I bet they have non-disclosure orders from her!

No trees were cut down, nor was any grizzly hurt in the making of this cartoon. Can’t say the same about printing it.

You have to be American to appreciate our grizzlies. In England once, a woman asked me if I’d ever seen a “grizzly BEAR.” I had to think for a moment before I realized she meant “GRIZZLY bear.”

Today’s strip, read with dtroutma’s post below, suggests a good definition of “neo-con”: Someone who keeps a picture of SP in his/her wallet, purse or bedroom. The journalist (he probably freelances for talk shows) that Roland is staking out is an SP voyeur. Roland, of course, is GT’s universal voyeur, and he stands for what gives tv news its main appeal.

If he pointed those binoculars in another direction, Roland might see Russia.

I been around a number of grizzly bear, Roland’s had some tough assignments, monitoring the journalist might not be bad , but catching sight of the journalists objective? Let’s hope he doesn’t have to see THAT “grizzly” bare!

palin drome:

Roland, how are you getting around?

A Toyota.

Not nearly as good as yours, though

palin drome,,, Having visited England and still with ties there, You gave me my laugh for the day… Great one!

One English lady said to me, “You’re the real thing aren’t you?” My chest swelled with pride until she explained she meant I was a real cowboy. (I was helping out at an Old West theme park.)

The English think about foreigners in stereotypes. That’s where they get their endearingly insular sense of humor—-and their love of Doonesbury.

@Sheik: I recognize Ahmed ben Hassan and Diana Mayo in your Avatar. My “coming of age” book in junior high school. Ahmed, played by Valentino in “The Sheik,” book by by E. M. Hull.

Bear avatar suggests Grizzly outcome for MISSING bear with tree.

Roland always seems to be GT’s way of biting the hand of the bigger media that have been killing off the papers he publishes in.

I suspect the landlord in the last panel has already alerted Gov. Palin, and the journalist permitted to spy on her, to the arrival of this joker from the Lower 48. Hedley had better climb the tree if he came to see the Messiah (Luke 19).

I don’t keep a picture of SP, I just want to keep her in Wasilla.