Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 03, 2009
October 02, 2009
October 04, 2009
Transcript:
Sam: "Etruria. Indigenous to loamy Turkish hillsides, these dazzlers are endangered, thus rarely seen. Ours are individually hand-wrapped in soft linen and lovingly sumggled into neighboring Bulgaria... where they are graded and shipped in hollowed-out cheese wheels to our vendor in Newark. Limited availability." You bought a hot bulb? Zonker: I can protect it better than the Turks. Plant: Got deer?
Garry Trudeau is NOT boring! He just doesn’t always stay with political topics. He’s a creative person, and less limited in scope than most other comic strip writers.
Come to that, the last time I did not enjoy this strip was when he portrayed a house where sinners went to be forgiven (notice I did not say ‘to repent’). Something about the Republican party. I did my best. I faithfully read the strip every day. But I just wasn’t able to get interested in the doings of right wing people.
Actually I’m not sure I believe they exist. I remember the first time I met one. I just stared at him, trying to grasp that he was real, and that he believed what he was saying… And don’t forget that as a Canadian, what Americans call ‘middle of the road’, I call ‘somewhat to the right’.
But the fact that I wasn’t interested wasn’t Trudeau’s fault!