Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 11, 2010

Alex inherited neuroses from both parents, but who among us hasn’t?

Shields up! Evasive maneuvers!!

Boy definitely ain’t dumb.

He’s already lived through one improvised explosive device attack; his experience is paying off in his dating behavior.

When you need a minute….

You guys are cracking me up today.

Haw haw, I love this strip. It’s like Shakespeare, only fun.

Leo has an inadvertent advantage when it comes to handing relationship stuff. Unlike most men, his mind works faster than his mouth (even when not chewing).

Note how Alex has her father’s profile. When she was little she was drawn as a clone of Doonesbury Senior, but Trudeau evidently took pity and scaled the nose back a bit.

One of my favorite cartoon couples - they are truly good for each other.

Sure hope Leo was paying attention in the Army when they emphasized the importance of having a safe line of retreat.

Toggle may not have a job today, just like the airline attendant for JetBlue.

For those opposed to waterboarding, Toggle would probably prefer it to the type of forced questioning he’s getting right now.

Nor does it matter how experienced Toggle may be with land mines. Under this type of heavy interrogation, sooner or later he’ll step on another one.

On August 11th 1984 Ronald Regan, thinking the microphone was turned off, said: “My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes.”

Reagan knew the mic was on, as he was doing a voice level check prior to a radio address from his ranch. The media recorded the voice check and distributed it.

Reagan knew more about how to use a microphone - and how to use the press - than any president before or since. Although his own diaries say otherwise, I believe he knew exactly what he was doing.

Shields up! Evasive maneuvers!! - thebird55

You, sir, win this topic.

Love is in the details: Alex’s drink being consumed and no food on her plate, for example. Although Leo is milking that burger for all it’s worth. Must be one of those dives from DDD!

Interesting, du55 and Nemesys. Thanks.

You’re right about the glass, Potrzbie. After asking her question in panel 2, she returns to her drink in panel 3 and they’re silent long enough for her to empty her glass while he’s chewing (and thinking—-Leo always appears casual when he’s focusing on a crisis). Then he breaks the tense silence and her unblinking stare with “Oh … sorry, chewing food.”

I agree with Ocean17: it’s like Shakespeare, with a close-up view of the actors’ sentiments. GT would make a good director of plays.

It was his cousin, but he’s from a trailer park. Don’t you watch Springer?

Yes, Nemesys, Ronald Reagan was saying something stupid, but it was hardly his first stupid statement. We are still years away from getting out from under all the ill Reagan did for the nation.

Amen, Brian. I know I shall never recover from Reagan’s policies.

Yes, Brian. On the Stupid Meter, Reagan’s statement almost ranks up there with “the Cambridge police acted stupidly”.

But at least Reagan’s statement was funnier, and helped accomplish more in the long run… assuming, of course, that you consider the fall of the Berlin Wall to have been a “good thing”.

Reagan had absolutely nothing to do with the fall of the Berlin Wall – he just used the fact that it was already on its way down to his political advantage.

Uh, Nemesys, I think that idle threats of bombing a country that lives in fear of your bombing it, a nation that has thousands of missles aimed at your people, while you are in the process of spending hundreds of billions increasing your own stockpile of missles aimed at that nation–an idle threat then is WAY stupider than President Obama’s ill-considered remark about a small, non-violent, misunderstanding in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

As for the fall of the Berlin Wall: To celebrate that occurance, means to celebrate Mikhail Gorbachev, not Ronald Reagan.

Maybe Nemster the Clairvoyant can inform the class of what GWB was “doing” on, oh…say…9/11/2001, for example. Many are still wondering.

Yes, Comrade Brian, we shall drink a vodka toast to Comrade Mikhail to celebrate the glory of his peeing in his pants and knocking down the wall after Reagan made that horrible blunder.

heeyuk, obviously GWB was busy masterminding the remote-control blowing up of the Twin Towers. Isn’t that what all good little Truthers believe?