Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 05, 2022

Joanie is treating Rick the way her ex-husband treated her.

Well, that put him in his place.

Women don’t try to impress men. They try to impress other women.

At least not for you, " Bronson".

For him?? Oh, man—does Rick have delusions of grandeur!! I can see where his son’s obnoxious attitude stems from!!

Where are her ears?

Be forewarned Joanie, they’ve closed Blake’s Rathskeller & moved the Kingfish.

Uhh…. I have been to several school reunions (including the 50th). Spouses have always been invited.

I always wonder what would happen if guys worried about look good and taking care of themselves for their spouse as much as women do. Or as much as they expect their woman/spouse to do for them.

Back to Berkeley. My dad and grandfather had a dime store on Telegraph Ave in the ’50s. My grandparents lived around the corner. Great childhood memories.

Oh, Rick…do try to keep up, won’t you?

Boalt Hall has been renamed to just UC Berkeley School of Law after it became news that from the past that John Henry Boalt’s virulent, anti-Asian racism fueled existing national prejudice against Chinese immigrants and led to Congress enacting the Chinese Exclusion Act. Woke but probably justified. UC Hastings College of Law in SF being renamed now after it was pointed out that Serranus Clinton Hastings (1814 – 1893), who founded the law school, ordered the mass killing of at least 283 Native Americans — men women and children — in one of the deadliest of a long series of state-sanctioned, militia-led massacres. The killings took place in 1860 at Hastings’ behest. The past catching up with the reality of a multi-racial, multi-cultural California.

Ouch, oh please.

I can see that sort of routine for an undergraduate reunion but for Law School? Only good looking lawyers are just out of Law School or are on TV.

I was heartbroken because a decline in my already shaky health condition made it impossible for me to attend my 50th high school class reunion last month. But we were a small class, and any disagreements we had were usually quickly resolved at the time. We all had each other in the same classes, and we all knew where everyone else lived, lol. I have no bad feelings towards any of my former classmates, just sadness that I couldn’t see them one more time.

I just went to music camp for a week this summer, after a few years of shutdowns/cancellations. Joined a small vocal ensemble and bumped into my high school algebra teacher, now teaching on the other side of the US.

Oh, he did so much better than I would’ve. After she talked about all the exercising and dieting she’d been going thru, I would’ve offered up a blank look and asked “You have?”. Fortunately, I’m married to the world’s most understanding woman. And she’s well on her way to the gold medal in eye rolling.

Rule No.1 on reunions—-the people who were idiots then are still idiots now.

Rick: "I don’t want to own her,

But I can’t let her have it both ways."