Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 08, 2013

HE’S BACK!!!(Sundays only for the foreseeable future)-Hope the brave firefighters don’t have to take drug test, soon. Hate to be found guilty of a contact high.-GO GIANTS!!!

Don’t eat yellow snow, or well, inhale a burning forest any more?

Saw some Marines ordered to burn a field in ‘Nam one day, their CO didn’t know “plant communities”. He ended up having thirty guys running around deeply inhaling from their “Zippo raid”, a happy break for them. I don’t think the idiot CO ever did catch on.

Go Leftwingpatriot! Good to see you again.

Just another version of an old, old joke.

Next year’s crop should do well. The lads will need to work in all thar additional charcoal.

Wait’ll the firefighters come down and discover it was the “cultivators” that started the fire.

Is this GT’s take on why the 19 died in a fire?

So, you can turn a forest into a bong.

The Firefighters have the MUNCHIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

mmmmmdonuts.mmmmmm

The first new Sunday Doonesbury episode in 3 months!

don’t get out much.

Catch up, Susan, catch up! Yosemite is only the latest.

Yes, someone had speculated on how the fire started in Colorado, saying it was due to pot farmers. However, this was disproven. GT just couldn’t resist the story of what had been assumed earlier. Can’t say I blame him. And no, it had nothing to do with another fire in which 19 firefighters died. Welcome back LWP! Glad to see a current strip from GT!

I work with a guy who wholeheartedly believed the pot farmers started the Yosemite fire. Went on and on about how bad the clandestine farms are for the environment. (and yes, like most commercial farming it is). Now that it is a hunter, this guy says he doesn’t trust it, that ‘they’ always lay the blame on whoever they want to and as there is a large coalition of anti-hunting types in CA…..

“One day the rope factory she catch fire n’ he runs back on in to save his lunch – he’s got two sardine sandwiches – runnin’ back on in to save his lunch he gets inside n’ there’s all this funny smoke floatin’ around up inside n’.. he gets some of this funny smoke up inside his head n’.. he sit down in the middle o’ de’ fire n’ he say, ‘shhhhhhhhhhh** baby, I ain’t gonna make rope no more!’”Jamie Brockett – Ballad of the USS Titanic

“Never affected me that way. Must have been my peculiar biochemistry. The same with LSD.”-So THAT’S why you are as you are.Not that we don’t all love you.I had a neighbor who never quite came back from an LSD trip. She often called 911 to report aliens were trying to steal her perspective.

Look at my avatar.

Welcome back to LWP and AnnieB. I’m still here and throwing a clinker in every now and then. Hope y’all are well. I’ve not changed much. I like to see the debates.

So we are now saying that farming starts fires? I had not heard that one, unless it is being implied that they were started in order to cover illegal activity of growing pot. In any case, that is not what happened. However, Mother Nature can have wildfires at times. Growing practices can be tricky and if an area is prone to wildfires I suppose this could cause danger, but one could also say this about timber, for example. But again, the pot growing theory has been disproven.

WOW!!! The first actually funny Doonesbury in years! Just like old times! And non-political too…..

Like the joint scene in History of the World Part 1.

Darlin’, you REALLY NEED to get out more!!!!! You Easterners know very little about your own country!!! There IS a world out there beyond NYC & the original 13 tiny states. There’s one county in California that could absorb nearly ALL of New England!!!!!

well about the ’he’s back for Sundays only’ he is old after all at least as old as me – isn’t he married to Jane Pauly?

@dtroutma – only thing my late ’Nam vet husband [Agent Orange got him] ever mentioned burning were the 55 gal. drums full of…………..

Soil destruction, air pollution, water contamination….I’d say having his grow-op destroyed by fire before too long is a wonderful thing for all concerned.

Does anyone else think this is a rather derisive treatment of the devastating effects of wildfires? Because I think I do.

As the daughter of a firefighter (long before SCBA, helmets, turn out gear & when asbestos was thought to be the fireman’s "friend), the mother of another and having worked as a “social member” of a fire department for many years, I find todays strip highly offensive. Maybe I missed the “message”, but it’s long been known that firefighters (and yes, police), rush in when all others rush out ( REMEMBER 9/11???), I’m very offended by the attitude todays strip seems to portray. Anyone of these brave men & women, if told when sirens wail and pagers tone, that they’d not be going home this day, almost without exclusion they would tell you “ok, but if I can save one life today, mine would not be lost in vain”. I personally think the author of this strip and the papers who printed it should be put on a fire line or asked to man a hose while entering a burning structure — then perhaps they’d put out the apology I feel is more than necessary!!! Remember, just a short time ago 9 brave men fighting to save lives and property gave theirs in that service. Apologize, at least, to their families and all those who perished on 9/11.

It may be satire, and not news coverage. Do you think?

Not funny after Yosemite and the false rumor about how it started.

This column, with the firemen downwind of the burning weed is a rip off of one of “Travels with Farley” by Phil Frank who died in 2007, shame on you Garry Trudeau;

Glad to see you back, Leftwing Patriot! Always cheer when you come in first.

Was that discovered by scientists, or by someone who accidentally dropped some into the Friskies? And how could you tell whether or not a cat was trippin’? Even without acid, mine used to attack what I could only assume were hallucinations, then go hide from them under the bed.

How can you tell?

At least we know they made it to Colorado and not back to Walden.

Why doesn’t an old dude like Zonker have grey hair?

He was hunting Democrats?

About GD time!

Uh Oh — Munchies!! I don’t think GT is saying the pot growers started the fire, just that they lost their crop.

How ca you tell?

Or so you perceive

Agree.

The police department came and gave us the “talk” in 8th grade. Toward the end of the talk, he lit about an ounce of pot on a screen over a coffee can. The whole class got real close to make sure they knew what it smelled like.

Even the cafeteria food was good that day.