Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 26, 2024

Ah, Connecting with your teenager…

This could be happening right now. Our society is so Fd.

Isn’t this around the time Mike and Alex visited a coffee shop where everyone was packing heat? I can remember that arc.

Can’t understand how a father and daughter can look exactly alike—yet Mike is handsome and Alex is ugly! Must be the noses.

Of course, those safety-minded parents are making the streets less safe for other people…

I remember a cartoon in PRIVATE EYE magazine showing a dozen parents driving their kids to school in huge SUVS, all of them saying in unison: “He can’t walk to school, the streets are too dangerous!”

She didn’t ticket any Canyoneros?

Ohhhhhhhhh, it’s a good thing he didn’t read over your shoulder or talk out loud. NO parent would allow that to continue if they knew that was happening.

Ford Excursion, otherwise known as the Ford Zip Code.

The true American mindset: “I have a gun, and that makes me right.”

Is this a repeat? Back around 2002 there was a website, , where you could get these SUV tickets. You could also get square stickers that read, “ONE LESS SUV” that you could put on your smaller, more environmentally friendly vehicle. But the website has been defunct for a LONG time.

The real culperts are the $75k pickups that you need a step ladder to get into.

gosh, we’re actually being allowed to weigh in on weighty issues. Should we exercise “free speech” for the nonce, the nonce being the interval in the dwindling days before inauguration of the South African billionaires? Or continue the self-censure of pen & tongue which may have destroyed our “freedom” whilst postponing our (1) censure (2) capture. how will we communicate with other generations across the generation chasms? but I digress. must hide knuckles lest someone rap them.

Cambridge, Massachusetts is considering an ordinance to ban autos and bring Rickshaws to town. It would be nice in the Summer, but a little cool for this time of year.

True Fact; you may not drive a heavy truck through Cambridge, late at night or early Morning. Cops will give you a ticket.

Last panel almost made me choke on my toast. Funny, insightful, and sad all at once.

I thought that Ford should have kept going in the “E” alliterations of model names: the Ford Extreme, the Ford Excessive, and, of course, the Ford Egregious.

This should be happening right now!

Alex doesn’t know anything about the business of transportation. Maybe she should buy some books on the advent of automobiles. Learn about the manufacturing and marketing, and why some car companies are now defunct, or will be soon.

Yeah, those guys are pretty funny. Just brandishing can get you put away for years, far from your treasured vehicle.

I have mixed feelings on the topic. I have a PHEV (Prius) for driving around town, almost always in EV mode. I also have a Subaru Forester, actually my second Subaru Forester, the first having been totalled by a 500 pound deer. We use the Subaru for trips, we live in the mountains of Oregon and we need the all wheel drive capability and the higher profile kept us safe when the deer could easily have come through the windshield of a lower profile car. So no regrets on either choice. If you need it, you need it. No need to be ashamed of keeping yourself and your family safe.

Hey Alex, don’t fight the future, they’ll just start calling them something else, crossover comes to mind ! ;-)

Where I live, if you did what Alex does, you’d have a .38-caliber hole in your forehead, without a single word spoken. Deep, DEEP ‘red’.