Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 26, 2015

And it will be again.

Red velvet was always an under appreciated motif.

Ooh! Ooh! Zonker – I know this one! Zero!

Flask with green liquid changes into a graduate with clear liquid. Cool.

So, three months ago there were johns sipping port on the veranda?

Doonesbury fans will appreciate that exactly 10 years ago this week, GT was doing an arc on Donald Trump, the low hanging fruit, the gift that keeps on giving for cartoonists and comedians. Dan Quayle is long gone, but Trump just goes on and on.

A lab with shag carpeting. Who needs petrie dishes?

Boy, Duke sure does it up brown! Or, rather, red with black flocked fleurs-de-lis!

When she got to the part about shag carpeting on the lab floor, our Safety Officer curled up in the fetal position and has been that way ever since.

The decanter containing green liquid with a critter in it: the critter sinks until in the 3rd drawing it drowns; in the 4th drawing the decanter changes shape to become a beaker with measurement markings, more lab than bordello,

And, the Brothel part is Why there were so many “Dons” on the veranda…

It’s “Tradition”. The American Slave Owners (And their Descendants) just don’t want American Blacks getting any “Uppity” ideas.That Nat Turner guy was bad enough.A Successful slave rebellion was Terrifying to them.

Baby Doc was so rich because his people was so poor

“instead of a ruler with ideals.”.Few rulers retain ideals, reality removes them.(Few become rulers with REAL ideals, many with faked ones.)