Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 18, 2011

Shut up Alex! (Rick Perry joke too obvious)

Here comes the “senior stuff” Alex mentioned three days back. “If you blank . . . I’ll keep everyone calm,” she predicted.

Alex is getting a mite…irritating, isn’t she? Where’s all the maturity of the last few years?

Shouldn’t we be making fun of Joanie for freezing up in mid-speech and forgetting stuff, just like we make fun of Rick Perry and Herman Cain?.Just trying to be nonpartisan here …

Alex is so not helping, and rayannina, she didn’t freeze up, she lost her place.

Alex is making fun of her Gram. Check out 11/20/2008 for another example.

Alex is not intentionally making fun of Gram.That would require intentions.

A certain percent of people have alzheimers. As size of the goverment increases it becomes obvious. Main purpose of their aides is to cover for them and run things.

 THREE POINTS First, Trudeau draws for fun and profit, but also to score political points against his political enemies, often the Republicans. What with more than forty years of steady success in the comic-strip world, He obviously knows what he’s doing. Let Trudeau be Trudeau. Second,  remember, my dear fellow readers, that Doonesbury is a comic strip, not Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Brothers Karamazov. It behooves us, then, not to probe too deeply into this genre, into these simplified, stylized, CARICATURES of much more complicated real-life people, such as Rick Perry. Third, and the uh, uh, what’s the third one there? … And let’s see. I can’t, the third one I can’t. Oops.   

Every passing day provides fodder

Perhaps the important thing to remember is that Joanie is a cartoon character who is not running for office. Though I have yet to say one word publicly or privately about Rick Perry’s goof (since people do forget things from time to time), one should note that he is a real person running for President of the United States. He will be expected to be “on” 24/7.

If this IS intended to be a reference to Perry, I’m impressed with how quickly he got it in. That was what, 10 days ago…? And since Trudeau DID set this up earlier in the week, it suggests that he did the whole week’s strips in, like, two days.

It’s possible that he was able to do some last-minute tweaking to a plot that he had worked out beforehand, but I’m inclined to believe it’s simple coincidence.

And let’s face it, it wouldn’t have been very funny if Joanie had broken a hip.

Yah, ya better watchet. Whoops, Democracy Now just started. Gotta check out the demos. See Ya.

Bepaws wouldn’t have worked as well.

Alex would make a wooden person nervous!!!!

Maybe Perry is just what they want. After all, Reagan was their favorite

I have a healthy scepticism about troublemakers these days. When I heard Scott Walker reply to someone he though was a Koch brother about thinking about seeding “troublemakers” among the Madison occupiers, I knew they would stoop to anything for power. The “anarchists” that were spraying paint the other day were all masked. Wonder who they really were….

Or I suppose it’s possible they’re just people who like to raise hell and know it will be blamed on someone else…

Troublemaker: New York’s police commissioner’s son, a Fox station newscaster, casting false news about protesters intending to shut down the subways. One wonders where he got his information (Daddy), because no one else seemed to know about it, including the protesters.

“I think Alex—-unintentionally—-is making fun of her grandma.”Right, lwp. GBT allows her entire generation, with its Leos and hot redheads, to make fun of GBT’s and Joanie’s generation by condescending to their seniors.

One, two, five – three sir – three!

Hey, maybe Joanie and Rick Perry are the key to budget reform…

A caricature is a portrait that exaggerates or distorts the essence of a person or thing to create an easily identifiable visual likeness. In literature, a caricature is a description of a person using exaggeration of some characteristics and oversimplification of others.1Caricatures can be insulting or complimentary and can serve a political purpose or be drawn solely for entertainment. Caricatures of politicians are commonly used in editorial cartoons, while caricatures of movie stars are often found in entertainment magazines. —Wikipedia

“… the ending showed us we are all prisoners if we let it happen …”

The Stoics (determinists or fatalists) of antiquity held that we are not free; we only THINK we are free but we do what the Fates want us to do and think.  Reformation Calvinists thought that we are destined for heaven or hell in a life after death; God knows where we’re going, but we don’t. The Elect are PREdestined to go up; the Damned are PREdestined to go down. This is different from the underlying philosophy of “The Prisoner” drama.  

Here’s a provocative comment by Shelby Steele in the WSJ. It’ll give the anti-“exceptionalism” libs on this forum something to chew on, if they haven’t all gone to bed by now.“According to 21st-c. liberals,” Steele wrote, “America’s exceptional status in the world follows from a bargain with the devil — an indulgence in militarism, racism, sexism, corporate greed, and environmental disregard as the means to a broad economic, military, and even cultural supremacy in the world. And therefore America’s greatness is as much the fruit of evil as of a devotion to freedom.”Obama will have to reaffirm this “exceptionalism” if he expects to win reelection next year.