Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 15, 2011

…or if you need your depends changed.

How…supportive. Way to go, Alex.

Or suddenly forget what you’re talking about, like Whatsisname.

Alex seems to reduce campaigning to managing smoothly. She’s too cool to commit to a guiding idea or platform. At the same time, she’s profoundly conservative in her deference to age, in spite of her clear view of Gram’s vulnerabilities. Is this the political wisdom of Generation X?

 About now they could probably use the services of Honey Huan.

Senior momet happening

I was going to make a comment here but I’ve forgotten what I was going to say.

 gladlythecrosseyedbear! Where are you now that Joanie needs to be warned about her creator, the god / idol (take your pick) the evil comik bible inerrant & verbally inspired and “written” verse by verse, chapter by chapter, by GTB? He’s leading to us on to apartad (segregation of some brutal kind). Tell us how to stop him cold in his trax. And imprison him in his troll booth.

Comments on this site have repeatedly characterized Alex as a 1%er. If so, whence her money: cash? / credit cards? debit cards? genuine jewelry? / tuition at MIT? whatever?  Is her source her parents, Joanie and Rick? Now the 1%ers appear much much wealthier than the Redferns, members of King George II’s “have mores” as distinguished from his mere “haves”. They live in a house that Bill Gates, e.g., would consider a dog house, if that. 

C’mon all ye out there who dared to include her in the super-wealthy, “have more” 1%. Ditch your Vicks drops; cough it up.

I thought she meant protecting Joanie from upperclass hazing.

She must save her from senior……….zzzz…………moment.

Callow youths like Alex don’t realize how many great meds we seniors have to take care of those occasional problems.

Confucius say, “Old age and treachery beats youth and skill every time”.

The problem we Doonesbury pundits have with Alex — though we love her pretty much unconditionally — IS THE REASON I suggested Honey Huan. She has proven world-class in terms of saving Duke’s asinine ham hocks.

Senior stuff? Like blowing off half your classes, scrambing to find an easy PhysEd credit to fulfill your graduation requirement, and applying for Grad School fellowships?

(How long has Alex been at MIT, by the way?)

Do we know she hasn’t offered? Do we imagine Leo would accept?

Besides, (A), Alex isn’t part of the 1%, Mike is (or may be), so it’s not her money to offer; and (B) Leo’s therapy is undoubtedly being paid for by the VA, not out of his own pocket.

I seem to recall that Alex and Kim (and Mike) made (or are still making) a tidy sum from buying up the intellectual properties of busted dot coms and then reselling it. Seems to have gone quite well for a time. So Alex does have some cash of her own but hardly enough to qualify for the top 1% ranks.

We know that, when Drew moved out, Alex couldn’t afford to keep up the rent without a roommate, so she can’t have all that much for discretionary disposal…

To burst your bubble many of MIT students and Grads and Staff are part of the 99%. They are they best people I have ever met and I’m honored to claim them as friends. For myself I’ve got a Community College certificate and an Honorable Discharge from the USMC. I still have things to do.

No one wants a traveling companion that looks so slovenly. And someone who would probably trash a motel/hotel room. Yuck!

That the assumption is that anybody at an “elite” school must be wealthy is part of the problem. The best educational opportunities should be available to those most worthy of them/could most benefit from them, not those who can best afford them.

The top schools should charge tuition on a sliding scale, based on means. A guy from Bill Clinton’s background with Bill Clinton’s abilities should only have to pay about $20 a year to attend Yale. A guy from George W. Bush’s background with George W. Bush’s abilities should pay $2,000,000.

Gram, take Alex. You’ll need her if you forget the third thing…

HAving a senior moment now; slap that child. Oh, did I say that?

Not all. We used to have it (university education) free in Australia and the left wing Labor govt changed it back to an elitist system in the 1980’s. Who introduced it in the first place? The right wing Liberals in the 60’s. I’ve always thought that was a bit ironic, really.

More related to Yesterday’s strip, but here is the strip where Joanie joins Mark & Mike on their MotorCycle Road Triphttp://www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/1972/09/10 That road trip started a month earlier.In those days a storyline tended to continue for several weeks.

In some prestigious Russian and/or Polish schools of the late 19th Century, in order for a Jew to gain admission he (his family or community) would have to pay the tuition for one or more poor Gentiles. If a rich kid with bad grades wants to get into an Ivy League school, make him subsidize the education for a poor kid who deserves to be there…

Or even shorter, F.U.

I could walk to work, at least (I live about 4 blocks from there, and can see it from my living room).

And they walk around with their heads pointed down and their feet pointed up.

They have Christmas in summer!

Weird.

I don’t recall that Alex has ever been a real champion of organization. These 2 should make a good pair.