Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for August 03, 2012

I knew something was missing!

Hints from the ole Master.

Or go the route I use for my strip – zero budget. Looks grainy though :|

The value of Doonesbury has never been in the art, but in the skewering political commentary. One line of evidence: the reich-wingers who sometimes squawk on this website, hiding their pain with bravado.

End this already…

“Grifter” today is yesterday’s “con man”. “Gestalt” is a German word with psychological connotations, meaning roughly “wholistic”, referring to therapy for the “whole person”. In my opinion George W. Bush and Condoleeza Rice are two grifters of historic proportions. I don’t see that Trudeau treats “grifters” wholistically. I don’t think he cares about such constraints. He doesn’t have to care. He just unsheathes his rapier.

One week of this fourth wall routine is quite sufficient, Gary…

Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy Pi…when did you get back? Missed you, man.

Alright, GT’s gonna continue this. I’m gone.

Wake up, Michael! Summer Daydream almost over! Please, please, please!!!

‘wholistic’ is not a word.

Somebody wake me when this is over….or maybe it’s a ploy to get the righties to go away?

love this. & the crack about how expensive it is to “render”…

Quite the double meaning.

con men. that is America, getting over, lol the American way. ask the native indians about getting over. lol, the slaves, the poor, the rest of the world. lol.

getting rid of the background, lol. great symbolism.

So that’s one of the practical reasons for dropping Jeff! He’s not only a douche, his McMansion costs too much to add.

I liked the Jimmy Crow arc. Where is he?

Re: Today’s strip: reality intrudes.

So that would make Jerry Seinfeld the patron saint of nihilism.

Next week he’ll be back to the presidential race.

Now we know what the sound of “one hand clapping” is. Hopefully Trudeau will quit when he needs glasses.

Just do what the Benders do, recycle backdrops.

Just woke up. Sorry about my intemperate posts of last night before I collapsed abed. (I have GBS which punches me out with fatigue and pain the later it gets after a night’s sleep.) Not sorry enough to remove the posts, though. Just sorrier about some of the terminology, like “riech-wingers”, than the content. Which I still hold true. (Maybe I should have said, “rich-wingers”? Dunno. Or just Homer’s “Duh”, maybe?) πHi, babygirl Susan! Good 2CURN the mix still.πLove the handle “Timeweaver”. Reminds of ol’ Pete Seeger’s “Dreamweaver” theme song. Is that mighty lover of all decency and hater of all “me firster” supply-siderism still sniffin’ the roses rather than pushin’ ’em up? πGood post, Beleck3. Insightful.πThanks for the shout-outs, Tacopielvr, MiepR, KingShark, and Gokie5. Goodbye, Randywriter; come back anytime!

Wait until she see’s the room with stock backgrounds or the burnt-down mail silo! I wonder if they ever solved whom burnt it down?

Somebody let me know when Alex goes away.

The question becomes is this a new “beginning” or just a take on running a business you didn’t do?

^ I think “C.R.” is “Condoleeza Rice” (supported by “condidate”)…

Drop the background art?! Sounds like Garry’s ready for partial retirement.

@DylanThomas3,12159 & @MiepRThe “Value of Doonesbury” is deeper than just economic, political and social commentary

@mcmcwholistic is an alternative spelling of holistic

He was ready a long time ago.

Nihilism a philosophy that holds that there is no objective basis for moral truths, and therefore traditional values are meaningless.