Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 18, 2024

Things get in the way.

It takes money to make money. The rich get richer and the poor dream on.

Yeah, running a taco stand can be quite time-consuming—especially when you don’t have an adorable chihuahua to help advertise it.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation….

I have measured out my life with coffee spoons….

In the bleak midwinter there’s nothing like a comic strip to cheer you up, is there, GBT?

There was an episode of ‘Malcolm In The Middle’ where the parents, for medical reasons, can’t have sex for a month. By the end of the month, the house and garden are looking magnificent, both have gotten promotions at work, and the kids are doing great in school. As soon as they can go back to the old routine, everything falls apart again.

In panel 3, Daddy’s silhouette looks a lot like Mike.

Never stopped long enough to buy a lottery ticket?

Zipper is Zonker’s nephew. So that makes it a 50/50 chance Daddy is Zonker’s brother. I am having trouble wrapping my head around that one.

Well, he raised a couple of good kids and Zipper.

And really, why even live if you’re not rich?

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans – J. Lennon

He made the mistake of not paying his workers minimum wage and no tips.

I’m wondering how Zipper is expecting to get through to his junior year in college. He doesn’t seem like scholarship material. :)

There are some things you simply need to make time for. I also forgot to make time to become rich. Oh well….maybe tomorrow.

Ask a German bank for a huge loan and then develop amnesia

So easy to make money==so annoying to have to spend it.

Didn’t we all.

I’m recalling something I heard a few months ago on why socialism never really took off in the USA. American’s don’t think of themselves as middle class – they think of themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.