Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 10, 2024

Flight attendant to flight risk

Duke promises big, but can he deliver???!!!

I just hope she gets a nose job.

I am uncertain if the phrase “movin’ on up” applies here..

Right before she goes to prison for blackmail?

As the ‘bimbo’ turns. She turned out to not be so stupid, she knew what Jim Andrews was all along.

Didn’t one of them commit suicide?

Flight attendants see and hear all humanity at their best and worst. They must quickly see that knowledge can be power.

‘What an unusual story…’ Duke is dismissive of life stories that do not start, ‘When I recovered sufficiently from my zombie phase’.

Still more money in a book deal – and less chance of being an accomplice after the fact.

The Enron Scandal—2001. Just one mega-scandal among so many.

As a flight attendant, she’ll be prepared for Duke’s usual crash-landing

And may I note that the reporters and weathercasters covering the hurricane from the outside did NOT beg off because of bone spurs.

I designed many power utility control systems during that time. We were starting to use computers so that energy could be monitored and optimized over large portions of the grid. Enron used the techonology to “game” the grid and manipulate rates to maximize profits. It took a long time for their crimes to catch up with them.

and the plot thickens

I remember rolling blackouts and that Ken Lay died in prison

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! NO NOSE JOB! For a DOONESBURY character, that is a BEAUTIFUL NOSE!!!!!