Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 14, 2016

Elmont should’ve been the VP candidate.

definitely comparable craziness

That great emphasis disconnected the mic so he talked to the wind

Good to know that Alice & Elmont survive. He was clearly a sage.

Elmont was made for Facebook.

Can’t believe they made it through all the supposed super storms.

As I recall, Alice froze to death on a park bench over a decade ago. This “Alice” must be a second companion: a “reboot”.

Elmer is a member of the new GOP conspiracy party.

Has Trump been preaching to the homeless?

Elmont seems to be far more interesting than Pence.

You could bring CO2 levels back down by switching from soil-depleting industrial agriculture to raising livestock on pasture which builds soil and thus sequesters carbon. You’d put Monsanto out of business in the process. Main thing it’d take is ending federal farm subsidies. But that would fix the problem cheaply and simply and that’s a bad business model in the modern State.

Wish GBT would kill off Elmont. His only character I can’t stand.

With Hillary in the white house, what will GBT do for plot material?

> The science minded “skeptics” are much harder to put down..If you’re not skeptical, you’re not scientific. The whole point of the Scientific Method is that a small bit of solid evidence to the contrary invalidates a theory, no matter how popular it is, or how much evidence there may be in favor of it..History is littered with Phlogistons, Humours, and other theories that were widely accepted by scientists for decades before another theory came long that better explained the small amount of contrary evidence. Students today (I taught Physics) ask “how could they have been so stupid?”.In a “normal science” world, the Warming theory would be frequently adjusted to take into account the (numerous) difficulties with it, and might be on much more solid scientific ground today..In a “political science” world, the supporters of a theory refuse to admit any weakness in it, or the validity of contrary data, keeping the theory from developing, locking it in at an early stage where it can’t possibly be right..I went to great pains to avoid using “dustbin of history”..If you’re paying attention, you might notice that precisely the same thing happened with Evolution in the U.S. No serious biologist believes the simplistic version taught in high school, but the political cost of changing the theory presented to the masses is just too high..See Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" for how this works in more detail.

Oops typed elmont showed up as elmer

Forget VP. He’s the Presidential candidate. Oh wait, that’s Trump.

There is no doubt that the GOP is funnier these days.

Why won’t Elmont show us his tax returns?

Science is based on experimental, observational “proof” – skepticism also requires the same – otherwise, it is just “Denial”.

I read that we should not call Trump crazy. From now on use the word MAD. Even Trump should agree to that. Mad as hell at Cruz, Hilary, DMC, News outlets, Republicans turned redcoats, They are all crooked and cheaters. It’s all them and not Trump.

Apparently being homeless and crazy grants people immortality. Those two haven’t aged a day.

Night-Gaunt49 said,@LameRandomName“You do realize that we have been under the Solar Minimum for some time and it is still globally getting hotter? The lack of sunspots.”.Which according to NASA corresponds to a one degree warming of the oceans versus temperature during high sunspot activity..http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2013/08jan_sunclimate/.“According to the report, when researchers look at sea surface temperature data during sunspot peak years, the tropical Pacific shows a pronounced La Nina-like pattern, with a cooling of almost 1o C in the equatorial eastern Pacific.”.They don’t believe this is affecting the climate in a major way but admit they don’t understand all the workings involved. It definitely changes weather patterns, such that specific places become wetter or drier. Those who want to “prove” anthropogenic climate change latch onto every weather event as solid proof..Others, of course, do the same to reach opposite conclusions. We all tend to see whatwe want or expect to see.

I think Elmont has been pulling on port for too many years….

And they want to deport US!?!?