Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 15, 2013

I would just be careful where I stepped. The floor around Jeff must be getting awfully slippery right about now with the amount of fertilizer he’s spreading…

… just like Miss Daisy?

“He’s mixing reality with fiction, he’s ready for MSNBC.”

Fixed it for ya.

you mean fox entertainment, not to be confused with world wrestling entertainment. at least wrestling fans, at a certain age, know its entertainment.

equally? really?

In reference to yesterday’s Yiddish racial slur, I fear I must defend my need to counter veiled racist comments. Such vigilance is necessary down here in Georgia. I don’t know about the rest of the country, but there are a lot of beige bozos down here who trot out the redneck equivalent of “mocha mamzer.” If you don’t let them know you disapprove, they will go into a racist diatribe so shrill and strident that it could make Strom Thurmond rise from the grave. Ol’ Strom was bad enough when he was alive, but no one wants to see Zombie Strom striding across the land.

Ha. Alex reminds him of Maya. Who he considered dating.

“Both sides are equally wrong” = “My side is to blame, and I can’t admit it, so I’ll share the blame with everybody else”.And by the way, all caps is gauche.

Politics is part of life and it has always been a big part of reading Doonesbury. Anybody else see where Mitch McConnell is supporting legalizing pot? He has joined forces with Oregon politicians to support legislation to allow legal production of hemp, a variant of marijuana.

Mixing other peoples fiction based in reality into his reality such as it is?

Thanks. I know little Yiddish and less Hebrew. In fact, the few Yiddish words I know come from either Lenny Bruce or Mel Brooks. I suppose I should thank Tucci for expanding my horizons, and I would if he wasn’t such a Moishe Pupik.

Jeff just might have a future as a novelist after all. A lot of successful writers have had trouble separating their fantasies from reality. William Faulkner and James Dickey told a lot of big fat lies, and Lillian Hellman deserved Mary McCarthy’s snide remark. “Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the.’”

He probably never got a good look at her because she got a good look at him.

@montessoriteacher, re: legalization of hemp.

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We have a strong hemp movement here in Colorado, too, and have had for a long time. It could never get off the ground, though, until now (see Sharuniboy’s post above.) It would be helpful if people could grasp the fact that hemp has about as much THC as the average paper napkin, while having all sorts of potential for efficient land use, local, national, and international commerce, and so on, while marijuana can do nothing but get somebody high. One of our eastern-plains farmers has been doing excellent research for decades, and lobbying the legislature, to no avail. Until now, I hope. Our nation needs more manufacturing, and hemp is a crop that is basic to an amazing array of different kinds of products. We import a lot of them from Canada at present.

Beige bozo is a bad, obscure joke, a silly counterpart to mocha mamzer. Beige is the skin color of the people who annoy me, and bozo indicates that they are not my friends. I don’t have a problem with public policy arguments, but I am convinced that a lot of people who attack Obama are motivated by much more than politics, and when someone like Tucci comes up with a term like mocha mamzer, it sets off my kluxer* radar.

*kluxer—A pejorative name for a white racist, derived from the infamous Klu Klux Klan.

I’m only reacting to what “those people” said, since, as you should have noticed, the aforementioned people all made offensive racist comments similar to “mocha mamzer,” thus leaving them open to any attacks along those lines. I’m still working on “mocha mamzer,” which could just be a pretentious version of black ba****d. On the other hand, mamzer does not appear to be completely synonymous with ba****d, since the child of an unmarried woman is not a mamzer. The term seems to refer to archaic Jewish relationship prohibitions, and, as such, our mutual acquaintance, Tucci, may be implying that Loving v. Virginia was wrongly considered.* I hope that I am wrong, because I would be tempted to call Tucci yet another name, and that would be unfortunate*Loving v. Virginia—the 1967 Supreme Court case that ruled that Virginia’s prohibition of interracial marriage is unconstitutional.

1. Will not spend a nickel on O-Dark-Thirty, since it conflates torture with actionable intelligence (and sincerely hope the Academy doesn’t reward it for the same reasons.)

It keeps getting proved that torture doesn’t result in good information; torture me, and I promise I’ll tell you whatever I think you want to hear, to get it to stop; you will, too!Torture is a crime everywhere, for good reasons!

2. Never watched 24 for the same reasons, when it was being shot in the industrial area where I worked, in Chatsworth.

I suspect ‘beige bozos’ can be (roughly) translated as ‘redneck crackers’ without much slopover. Racism is alive and as sick as ever in the ‘deep’ South; see ‘Southern Strategy’, that turned the Democrat racists into Reagan Republicans. Karl Rove is still at large.

Please, explain “beige bozos” using more conventional English terms.

I think dinkytown was refering to those of caucasion descent who generally shoot their mouths off when confronted with something evn mildly racial. Hence beige bozos.

Sorry to be obscure. I never really learned my colors, but aren’t all the people in the world colored? I think that Strom Thurmond was beige, and I think that most of the present day Klan boys are also beige. But some of them might be cream or buff or ecru. One or two of them might be white, like Johnny Winter, but those guys are rare. Maybe we should just forget about colors altogether.

Ah, when I think of all the girls I considered dating…

@Night-Gaunt49 “108 skin colors from white to blue-black. With many shades and tints in between.”

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Earlier today these comments got me to thinking about all the skin colors in our biracial family, and I noticed that some of them sound edible. We have peaches-and-cream, caramel, dark chocolate, just to name a few. Not sure how this fits with anything else here, but it was fun to think about.

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Love that little smile on Alex’s face in the last panel….

Got curious and checked. The word “bozo” first appears in print about 1910, but no one seems to know where it came from. The experts best guess it that it derives from on of a couple different Spanish words, perhaps “bozo” which is a form of a word meaning “mouth”.

OK, will do.

No stutter? Have I got the wrong guy?

That the best you can do, troll?