Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 13, 2022

Mike, you’re disturbing his flow of thought!

Looks like he’s about to make a classic blunder!!!

Yeah, I think Lars has definitely got a black queen coming!

Man up Mike, grab him by the collar and toss his butt out.

Kim hired a bunch of freeloaders and scoundrels. Fire him!

I am at a loss to understand why Mike tolerates these clowns.

What did Kim ever see in this guy?

Doesn’t Mike have guts enough to fire that SOB??

Well—maybe Alex can do that; after all—it’s HER laptop he’s on!!

Fire him. Thought that yesterday.

Mike, ask Alex to ask Kim what Lars is contributing to the business. Kim will give her a straight answer because she respects Alex’s intelligence and values her opinions.

[…pause…]

So why not ask Kim yourself? See para.1 above, Mike, and try to focus, OK?

Lars is talking himself out of a job. 54321

Uh, shouldn’t there be a “White” side in there somewhere? You know, the side that moves first.

Hey there Captain Hairline. I suggest you baffle Mike with more of your bullsh1t since you are not dazzling him with your brilliance.

Please, Mike! I’d rather do it myself!

If one could create a paradigm for the next millennia by playing solitaire, I’d already have the paradigm for the year 5000 by now.

God forbid there should be a power failure.

Black Queen on Red King sounds like a deli sandwich concept.

You would actually be quite surprised to find out how many modern technological advances came out of other games, such as, um, “Blackjack”, and … Sudoku … don’t forget “Patience” … and … Mumblypeg … Pitch Penny …

I’d be pretty surprised, too.

It’s not clear what product Mike’s and Kim’s company is trying to produce.

But I doubt that sponsoring the next solitaire champion is in their mission statement.

90% of the job is the thinking, Ok!

When the “Ace of Spades” comes up,tell him he’s fired because it gives you the creeps to have a guy who’s about to die in their garage.

“Hey, I’m energistically leveraging cross-functional multidisciplinary-based strategic methods of paradigm empowerment here!”

Is Kim really that clueless that she thinks it’s worth keeping this slug around?

Wow, this guy’s gotta go!

Lars had an idea in high school that was a runner-up Nobel Prize in Economics. He won so many scholarships and grants that he has been educated worthless.

A prime example of a Technology Con Artist.

When I was in college, we geology majors had an intramural mixed volleyball team, whose name was (and I am not making this up): Are You Cummingtonite, or the Plutonic Affair. We did OK, but did not win the tournament.