Gil Thorp by Henry Barajas and Rachel Merrill for June 29, 2018

She doesn’t have to write anything.

Saturday’s strip: P1 we see the newspaper, P2 we see BADER jr see the paper and P3 we see him screaming like R2D2 on crack.

Hey Jay nice pose in P1, trying to cover up that tent you’re pitching?

“Barry Bader will have to live with what I write . . . but what the hell. Broken eggs and omelets and all that. Hols the presses!”

P1, Guys really like it when you hold them in your palm, Double D.

P2, So will you, Double D, so will you.

P3, Or you could write a story about the prom and leave the Baders alone. Or here’s a news flash, it’s nearly July 4th, why are you writing anything at all for The Strumpet?

How about writing about your academic All American?

Face it Thorpalcholics, there is no Milford CC AGAIN this year due to the aimless baseball/softball seasons, launch angles and convict Where Are They Now? student newspaper expose’. What it would be to have Coach Glory visit as Pedro and Mimi jettison to the Baja Peninsula for Summer, Molly Kinsella is hired as Assistant G.M. at MCC, Carl Peake still dresses like it’s 1981 and a fundraiser return match with Herk is long overdue. Am I asking for too much?

Actually, this is a high school newspaper, and no, you don’t have to write an expose about a student’s father. In fact, most high school newspapers wouldn’t let you.

In all reality , How about writing about the disappearance of the Thorp kids and their parents many heart wrenching attempts to find them. Never mind ,the Trumpet doesn’t print false news .

Is DD’s desk next to an escalator? Now BB can go up on her !

P-3: DD is encouraged to drop the news story and write a Dr. Seuss story.

or: BB complains about how short he is and he isn’t tall either.

…Or tie in some Russian collusion for some quality fake news.

Maybe the illegitimate president will pardon barry’s drunken daddy.

Well, this is why in the real world, little kids aren’t allowed to write about such personal stories, especially, as has been pointed out, one involving a student and his convict father. Daffy Duck Dafonte is figuring out that no matter how she spins it, no one is gonna win.

DD writing what she saw and heard would be reporting; laying her opinions/prejudices on what she saw and heard is something else.