Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 21, 2013

PhD in CS/EE is more similar to my BsC in CS with MicroComputer concentration, tons of math, physics, and electrical engineering in addition to the regular CS classes.

Basically its three, three, three degrees in one.

I bet female PhDs in EE/CS aren’t a dime a dozen yet.

Proud mother: “She’s a doctor! But not the kind that helps people.”

Just genuflect. That covers most of these situations.

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I’m waiting to see Alex’s mother’s reaction. While her mother-in-law might be rude and crude, she cares. Her real mother, on the other hand, is the ultimate b__ch.

You should try a PhD in History… that’s why I work in the IT field as a database administrator. Professors hang around at the university until they die at age 90, literally, taking up slots that us youngsters at age 53 could fill

The highest degree awarded by a university is the PhD, not the MD.

Has she done her oral defense yet?

Either way, it’s good she got this done before the babies come.

You’re just saying that to stir up the hornets’ nest, right? Most people here understand, some of us from actual experience, that a PhD IS a real doctor, and often involves much more work than an MD does.

Double E isn’t worthless unlike so many other degrees. It is practical, useful needed all over.MIT highly respected.PhD means highly respected by the highly respected and in demand.She can write her own ticket, including form her own empire.

Piled Higher and Deeper.

It’s not true that the more letters you’ve got behind your name the more respected you are…I used to have to sign my name with M.A.,CCC/SLP after it, and the rest of the faculty laughed at me….

Mothers-in-law typically expect their daughters-in-law to bow to them.

I never said anyone has to be liberal or conservative to be thinking of those who are suffering in Oklahoma.

The person who posted above forgot to add another statement I made yesterday, so I will say it again. I live in Kansas. I hear the right winger point of view everyday. Therefore, I feel no need to read or comment on right wing comic strips. Also, the mainstream media is not dominated by the left wing. Instead, the mainstream media constantly bows to the right wing and insists on a false equivalency in regard to many issues. The liberal mainstream media is a myth. I am happy to read GT’s comic strip and enjoy his point of view. If you don’t appreciate him, I can’t for the life of me understand why you bother to read his strip, let alone make comments on it. Life is short. Do things you enjoy. Get a life.

Those are your words, not mine. If you wish to make that association, it is your own doing.

Thank heavens no-one ever bashes the left. So nice to know we’re immune to that. Martyr much?

Where is Montesoriteacher “bashing” right-wingers in the comment you were replying to?

‘After all you guys are pretty sure that he ordered the crucifixion’.No, that was Hilary, remember? :-)

If you’re a medial doctor with a PhD, do you get to be called doctor-doctor?

Two things you’ll never see together, Phd and a tea partier. They don’t have the brains to earn Phd’s, they only get them if they’re given away to moochers

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You must be confused. The Tea Party is supporting the moochers with theirtaxes. That’s why their number one theme is fiscal responsibility and balanced budgets. The moochers are the anti tea party gang because they pose a threatto the free ride

Geez I looked away and we got new Trolls?Looks like it, Dr. Toon.

How come Alex wears such loose clothes? Every preggers person I see has very tight clothing on to show off the bump. Get with the program, Alex! You are behind the times!

The point of being a troll is upsetting other people through nuisance posts. Theoretically, one who has a conservative point of view on a liberal comment section doesn’t have to be a troll. However, if the righties don’t want to have their comments questioned, again, why don’t they go elsewhere? No chance of being considered a troll on the right wing strips for the likes of the trolls we see here.

Yes, I chose to respond negatively to GT being considered biased. It is his strip, after all. It is a free country. You may disagree with him. That will not stop him. GT has the right to express his views, whether you agree or not. As to Ragarms or Dr. Toon being a troll, I have seen no evidence of this. In reality, we are all biased. No one doesn’t have a point of view unless they are completely uninformed.

Well, a psychiatrist is definitely an MD. I was under the impression that a psychiatrist was another specialist who is an MD. There is nothing to say that a person can’t have both degrees however. The MDs have to specialize in something, whether it is family practice, psychiatry, orthopaedics, GI, or whatever.

Yeah, I thought maybe a sock puppet was at work here.

Actually, most of us who post here regularly know what PBK means by sock puppet. Sorry you don’t feel included.

It seems to me we have a number of thoughtful centrists here – it’s true we all have our biases, but there are a dozen or more people that I can think of who do post thoughtfully, without trolling, on both sides of most of the issues.

It is sometimes easy to miss sarcasm, and there are some here who don’t recognize humour, either, but I think we give too much time to the trolls. I’m guilty too – sometimes I want to make a broader point, and let myself get sucked in, but I am trying hard to reform.

Discussion is fun as well as useful. We can do that. I suspect we’ve let our skin get a little thinner than we’d like.

We really do have some great posters here.

There are a great many people in this country who would be delighted to try to manage in your state of poverty.

All we have is SS, and mine is a pittance, further I am a cancer patient without health insurance.

This is not so much a bid for sympathy as an example of the reality that too many of us are living with.

Oh – and we aren’t considered to be ‘poor’ by any government agency Federal nor State. We are living on our income, if not within it. We get NO assistance of any kind whatever.

I hope you are counting your blessings.

She didn’t have to complete the MD degree before she went for the PhD?

I thought you had to have the MD to qualify as a candidate for the PhD .

Nowhere near the left-coast but thank you for playing.

I just cut one right now (shouldn’t have had that burrito for lunch).

TMI; I have a saying that opinions are like a—holes. Everybody has one, nobody wants to hear it.

There are plenty of conservatives here:Travis BickelSkepticalTucciand of course the most famous (drum roll, please)….Guard Sgt. “Barry is a usurper! He is not a natural born citizen! All his great-great grandparents had to have been born in one of the original 13 colonies and all on the Fourth of July for him to qualify.”After posting the Supreme Court decision of United States vs. Wong Kim Ark to show that Obama is Constitutionally qualified, I realized I was dealing with someone who believed only he knew the truth.Pardon me while I respond to another conservative, calimesajim.

A shot of penicillin should help that drip.

You have a despicable attitude of our citizens who are hurting financially and can’t find good paying jobs in the silent Depression. So how long have you hated the poor, both old and new?

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Despicable, hate and Nazis ? That’s a real nice constructive rebuttal. I am not sure what people consider a “good paying job” is before they decide to go to work. I believe in helping, like teaching someone to fish rather than give them a fish and creating a dependent mooch.

A Doctoral degree is a Doctoral degree. If it is in the field of Medicine, it is an MD. If it is in the field of Law, it is a JD (Juris Doctor). If it is in the field of Divinity, it is a DD Dentists get DDS, and veterinarians get DVM, and in most other fields it’s a PhD, but each is as high as you can get in that field, and many people have Doctorates in more than one field, and ALL of them are entitled to call themselves “Dr. Such-A-One” (although lawyers who do so are rare indeed, unless perhaps they are Law Professors).

Psychiatry is an actual branch of medicine, and a psychiatrist is an MD (one must be, in order to write prescriptions). Many practicing psychologists, even psychoanalysts/psychotherapists (psycho-analrapists), do not have PhD’s, but they don’t necessarily need one to practice (but they can’t call themselves “Dr. Such-A-One” with only a Masters).

Perhaps I’m on point or not, but I feel the need to share this. I am a centrist. I believe that America has become too large to let Churches and other charities take care of the poor and dispossessed. I see the extremely wealthy giving out bulldust and calling it wisdom, so that the middle class with a lean or more to the right think that these pearls are Scripture. All the while, our freedoms are being whittled away by the same right, and the left. It’s a conumdrum. I’ll share the IRL of an article about one of the worst offenders from the right and how they are killing us. Yes, I said killing, any way you look at what they are doing it should be called murder.

http://www.theorganicprepper.ca/monsanto-declares-social-media-war-against-protesters-05212013

I know that this will be well received by some and others will try to shout me down. I tell you now, if we do not unite against the extremists of all stripes, we will be ground into the bulldust.

When I heard it, it was, “MIT—PhD—M-O-N-E-Y!”Not to be confused with M-A-O, T-S-E, (DASH) S-U-N-G

You can tell how excited Toggle is, his aphasia made a return

You can tell how excited Toggle is, his aphasia made a return

And far too quickly.

Re: the comic — It seems everyone has to make a derogatory comment whenever someone gets a higher degree (i.e., “do I bow or something”) and it makes me wonder what we have against education in this country. You would think that her mil might be proud of her or something (you’d be wrong, but you would think that).

Totally biased or just somewhat biased?.

For example, I’m biased in favor of redheads, yet there are some I dislike for personality reasons. In much the same way, some favor one viewpoint or another but can see reason.

And yet, most Tea Party types don’t tend to favor tobacco.

Therefor, Tea Party types don’t seem to be puppets of tobacco.

I’m sorry, NH41, but those two do represent current mainstream conservatism, especially as exemplified here. No “conservative” here does any kind of argument. They just spout bs and call names. Hence the appelation “trolls”.