Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 26, 2024

Some parents’ passings are mourned more than others’…

i’ve always liked Mark, but now I really appreciate him even more because he told the truth even to his abusive dad.

I unfortunately had a father like this. He died alone. There are 9 of us kids. He pushed us all away with the attitude displayed in this comic.

I hope that SOB kicks the bucket tomorrow!

Dad… have you tried NOT being a Republican?

I hope that apple rolled as far away from the tree as nature would allow.

Some legacies need not be carried on.

“Gee, Dad, I’m your son. Born of your genes and raised by you. How could I possibly have turned out like this?”

That’s right, never put off telling your relatives how you really feel. Cuts down on holiday shopping and other b.s., too.

Been there and done that. Not fun.

Not a political comment. This old guy is feeling pretty good lately. What more valuable gift, can we give to the young ones, than Democracy?

Isn’t doonesbury funny today? A nasty bigoted old man who hates his son? Please vote. It ain’t over yet.

Repeated failure as a husband. Failure as a father. Couldn’t write a decent memoir about his time in the war. This guy is a total loser.

Always a good move, telling your kid they’re a disappointment.

My nephew is a single, gay man who adopted three boys from the same family. He’s giving them a life and opportunities they would never have had.

Ignorance. Mankind has suffered for ignorance since our beginnings. Why is it that some people prefer to dwell in the ignorance of denial, embrace the ignorance of hiding the truth, thrive on the lies? We’ve had gay leaders in the U.S. since our founding, more open then than after the Victorian Age of conservatism, that ignorance putting them in the closet. Why does it bother anyone what someone else does that harms nobody? Whose business is it what others do or prefer for themselves? Bigotry and racism are ignorance. I know of no one who was asked before they were born how they wanted to be born. Most would have chosen movie star looks and multi $billionaire parents, and some would say white, male and straight. Yet we have those who would tell others how to live, when they don’t do a very good job running their own lives, and what choices they are allowed to make, when their choices cost us freedom and lives, or that one is better than another.

I’ve often thought that fear is borne of ignorance embraced. I’ve often thought the fear of gay is fear of self. Do the loudest and most vocal opponents in reality doubt their own sexuality? The only ‘threat’ to someone else is that they might be gay themselves. Fear induced bigotry, racism, misogamy, elitism, are all borne of ignorance. Knowledge is the only way to defeat ignorance.

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men (updated to all people) are created equal”

This Great Nation was founded on this profound knowledge. We’ve yet to practice it fully. We have those to this day who oppose that knowledge. Those who would take us back to a time before that profound knowledge was spoken. ‘WE, the People’ must embrace the knowledge, defeat the ignorance to be what we claim we stand for.

Happy belated 76th birthday to Mr.Trudeau

Republican National Convention selling Donald Trump’s used sneakers for $600.00 a pair.“The collected poems of Donald Trump”(?) sold for $45.00

Mom always like Mark best.

Parents. Can’t live with them (even when you have to); can’t live without them (hmm, why not?).

Oy, what a pair these. One thing, One thing, leads to another, another ……. ;-)

Impressive when you think about it.

yup. some dads are just terrible, because THEY were raised by terrible parents. Kick The Dog syndrome.

Closure? Yeah but for who? Besides, Mark did not need to be told he was a disappointment to his father. I’m sure his father had shown how disappointed he was all during Mark’s growing up and beyond. (Of course, this is assuming his father was around to display his disappointment.)

Is that recorder on?

I’ve always found people who want to keep their bloodlines pure in whatever way …. completely ridiculous. No matter how much you try not to, you will at some point have relatives that are gay, non white, feminist, different religions, trans etc. It’s literal insanity to think otherwise. Learn to love and support people for who they are.

‘Not a close relative, but the offspring of my uncle’s sister (I don’t know what that’s called – some kinda cousin?) who was declared a boy at birth – was sad and lonely all through high school and college – but later in life became one of the most beautiful women in our family!

Life is full of surprises. As a girl, Sophia Loren was called “Stechetto” – Italian for “stick” because she was so skinny. Cameron was called “Skeletor”.

Now cut him out of the will.