Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 15, 2012

I guess, Alex didn’t take Romance 1.01 at MIT.

The closest I ever got to MIT was a Red Sox game at Fenway in ’87.

I’m introducing to the world the newest textspeak abbreviation: BSF. Stands for “But Seriously, Folks …” Pass it on.

The way this is shaping up, Alex will be carrying Leo over the threshold.

Living in Western Massachusetts, I just have to say how happy I am that this strip does not reflect what the weather is here. That was our winter last year, and, thankfully, not now. It just bring back bad memories…

My offer to drive still stands!

The car must be treated with Snow-X.

It’s only in the South you are stranded if the snow covers the ground. In Michigan I have driven when I leave a flat lane behind me because it is higher than the ground clearance of the car. When it piles up in front and comes over the hood you have troubles.

Alex is just adhering to “Don’t Text and Drive”

After the Skype weeding, you can go on a virtual honeymoon! Then, after an appropriate amount of time, have a virtual baby…

This is one continuous conversation, right? so it’s only taking a few minutes to get the last 3 strips worth of dialogs, if you were talking “real” time. I think that the snow is piling up, but slowly as it might really do.

love the differing m.o/focuses of these two generations, and that they can (for now) still communicate over the not-a-gap-but-a-chasm

The most intimate decisions made publicly and over long-distance electronics. New paradigm for choices.Still: suppose a drama-queen flibberty-gibbet WERE facing what could be…might be…death…she MIGHT think of someone she loves more than anybody…maybe she’s growing up. Consider the source and the culture…

Me…? too bad I couldn’t marry even all the great women I really admired and loved…women have so often been a full -time occupation, I don’t understand how anybody can find work as interesting…King bee. Of course i didn’t work…there were so many interesting and fine women, who could have time to work?

Dat’s a fact Jack! I watched my Grandson wit his phone doing dat text thang. Dey got dey own language on dere. Some kind of hieroglyphics or sumthen. Dey use little short words and different looking faces to say hello to dey friend sitting right next to dem. Loady! Loady! I been sending dat boy to school for dat?

Leo hasn’t asked Alex to marry because getting married isn’t something the new generation does.

Only backward-looking romantics like gay couples, or the supporters of Rick Santorum, or Alex (but not Joannie, notice) dream of becoming a “family.”

When a majority of adult society no longer believes in “family,” marriage will be nothing more than a quaint option, like observing Valentine’s Day.

“Way of my people” LOL

Some people have nothing better to do. Like reading comics on the Internet for instance. It’s free and easy to do.

Does Alex not realize that the thing she is holding is a phone, and she could actually talk to the man she loves?Not that I’ve ever heard her say the word…

Climate change.

We’ve all been influenced by Uncle Remus stories, some more than others and at a convenient time too. So, how’s your Black History Month been goin’?

The way of her people? What tribe is Alex? North Americus Self Absorbus?

Geek love couldn’t have waited until February 29th, I guess.