Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 21, 2013

Testosterone v. estrogen?

What do fellow men prefer here; blonds, brunettes or redheads?

@pouncingtiger

Not on my primary list of issues. Need someone I can talk with – without getting a head cramp trying to figure out the conversation.

med students have no life. it is all about work and study. good thing too, since they will be fixing us up when stuff happens. after med school, rotation, internship, residency, fellowship, passing the boards, and finally get that license.

Are they going to play doctor?

“It was a very bad breakup. In fact, she killed herself. She texted me all about it. And I never got to meet her in person.”

So when is GT going to have Drew come out of the closet?

What’s the matter, are you bored, can’t find anyone or anything on MSM to disagree with and need a liberal to rub the wrong way?

Advertisers: If we click your ad away the first time – that means no. “Post-it,” take note: I’m done buying your product. I’ve had to click away the same ad five or more times each morning trying to read the comics.

Its a double whammy day for the TROLLS.

Psyche had the same problem. beauty & goodness that causedd people to stop worshipping @ the shrine of Venus. & Venus was not amused. no woman approached because of her looks can ever assume that a man wants her for her whole being rather than for eyecandy, status. this kind of man will dump her & replace with younger beauty in the later on years. lucky she has a girlfriend who is not so jealous of her smarts & looks that she is unable to stand the comparison, being ignored while hardons make their smitten advances .

What? Nothing about the inauguration today? Maybe when they go to a new setting, they will have the inauguration festivities being broadcast on tv.

Tucci, why don’t you ask the thousands of real world kids currently enrolling in medical school, or those fewer kids who managed to get into MIT? You might learn something about how ridiculously out of touch with reality your ideology is. You might have to admit you don’t know everything, which could be a challenge for you.

Oh, and she gladly voted for Obama again.

She’s so pretty, her future sick patients will take one look at her and be cured. Well, the men will, anyways.

Don’t be too hard on Tucci; he’s just having a meltdown because the American people TWICE elected Barack Obama President, and he’s here to try to pathetically convince himself that he’s still right.

Because that will never happen, despite your fantasies. And if there is a doctor shortage, it will be because so many older Americans will be needing more healthcare than ever before. But don’t worry, your beloved insurance companies will undoubtedly continue to reap obscene profits.

“Oh come on! She’s not that cute!”

I think that’s mostly due to Trudeau’s limitations as an artist. He’s not able to draw her as cute as she’s supposed to be, so we must judge her beauty by the reactions she causes and otherwise suspend disbelief.

As for the blonde/brunette/redhead question (and its corollaries), I won’t be so disingenuous as to claim that looks aren’t a factor, and certainly it’s the first judgment available to be made (unless I’m flirting by email). If I were to build a girlfriend from scratch, she’d be a willowy blonde, but better a Plain Jane that I get along with than a goddess who bores me or pisses me off.

PS: My ideal fictional ladyfriend is Diane Chambers, from Cheers. Jess Day (The New Girl) is a new favorite, but the things that WOULD annoy me about her are more off-putting than the bits of Diane that would annoy me.

Hi babygirl,

“I just hope Uncle Stupidhead doesn’t try to hit on Drew—again!”

Aw, and here am I hoping he does! But comix are as comix do. Sooo, guess we’ll both jus’ hafta wait.

Hey reichwingers!

Here I am. Uncle Pincushion. A lib, a lefty. Just waiting — along with St. Ron Paul no less — for Bronco Bama to pull our dudes ‘n’ dudettes in uniform outta obscene foreign wars!

Jab away!

Drew is in med school, and seeks intelligent conversation. She isn’t impressed by ignorance or b.s., which is why “tucci” need not apply.

BTW, cadavers AREN’t the only bodies “getting action” in med schools.

Are you saying that the medical schools can’t get enough applicants to fill their classes? I’m not sure that’s true.

I believe you will find the residency programs that are hardest to fill are the lowest-paid specialties, like family medicine and gerontology.

I’ll vote ‘yes’ on that.. My ‘conversations’ with relatives that are of the left-leaning persuasion always plague me with questions instead of answers; ie; “have you ever read the latest book by (fill in the name) lately?” Intimating that I’m too stupid to form an opinion or write a book all by myself. A pox on them.

As soon as I see ignorant name-calling I don’t even read the bs that follows. At that point, I can skip posts with certain avatars and not even read a word.

You think Obamacare is “grinding away to destroy not only the economy in general but the health sector particularly?” Wake up, Americans! Your country is the only developed country without a decent public health care plan for all the people! Obama is trying to civilize you.

“we kept our focus on the individual patient in every case, not on the herd as a whole.”…and that focus was on the size of the person’s wallet. Money determined the quality of care that a patient received.

Ouch! That really hurt!

A READ ‘N’ WEEP FOR U.S. REICHWINGERS

“Nazism used elements of the far-right racist Völkisch German nationalist movement and the anti-communist Freikorps paramilitary culture which fought against the communists in post-World War I Germany.6 It was designed to draw workers away from communism and into völkisch nationalism.7 Major elements of Nazism have been described as far-right ….89”

¶

“Nazi Führer Adolf Hitler had objected to … “Socialist” in its name [National Socialism] as Hitler at the time instead preferred to use “Social Revolutionary”.14 Upon taking over the leadership, Hitler kept the term but defined socialism as meaning a commitment of an individual to a community.14 Hitler did not want the ideology’s socialism to be conflated with Marxian socialism, and claimed that true socialism does not repudiate private property unlike the claims of Marxism, and claimed that the “Marxians have stolen the term and confused its meaning” and said that “Communism is not socialism. Marxism is not socialism.”15 …."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazism

Notice ALL the men are looking at her.

Many remember when Prez W.Bush said he wanted America to become “an ownership society”. But few understood at the time — or even now — what he really truly meant, deep down inside, by such a phrase. Here it is:

The 0.1% OWNS the 99.9%! A true unrestrained-“market” plutocracy masquerading as “conservative”.

Accomplished via clev mechanisms. Examples:

• Redefinition of corporations as “persons”, enabling• Mega-giga-even-tera contributions to tea-partier candidates for legislators, governorships, and most especially the U.S. Presidency.• Use of millions-$/yr. lobbyists instead of legitimate Congressional / State legislative staffers to WRITE the actual, relevant, end-use legislation (which a sock-puppet President MUST sign or suffer impeachment by the House). • The gutting, capping, or even outlawing of protective consumer lawsuits for redress of consumer grievances (e.g. “underwater” housing mortgages). (But, lo, here she is, Sen.-elect Elizabeth Warren, now that we really truly need her!) • Wage slavery. (Rem. Tennessee Ernie Ford singin’, “I owe my soul to the company store”? Well, y’all ain’t seen nuttin’ yit. Nuttin’!)

To mention only five.

Question: How does a Doctor, who purportedly has a thriving practice, have the time, during what would be office hours, to write long screeds against progressive thinking ? How many people are waiting interminably in either his waiting room or freezing, half naked in an examining room, while he writes these lengthy diatribes ?Wonder what kind of a doctor he is ? Just asking….

“a nasty medical condition” = a lost license?

If the healthy and the wealthy don’t contribute with the sick toward healthcare cost- then the healthy and the wealthy are the only people that will enjoy healthcare, leaving everyone else to do as best they can …

VDRL = venereal disease research lab

Just tuned in, and am wondering whether “Tucci” is the same angry M.D. we had around here a few months ago.

Aside from name calling, what have you got ? You’ve never answered the question as to what kind of " doctor " you purport to be, and whether you practice, and have a valid license to do so.If you weren’t so rapt up in your delusions of intellectual superiority, perhaps, you might deign to come off of your cloud, and enlighten us poor mortals to your true qualifications in the medical field.

@Retired Dude

Darting back to the other theme of the strip today, thanks for your blessing on gray-haired women! Those of us who decline to take up the current fads of teeth-whitening, hair-coloring, skin-bleaching, plastic surgery and so on may still have plenty to offer. Forty years and much life experience hence, Drew may look much like Joanie – and bring far more to the “relationship table” than she could even dream of now.

First rule when lossing an argument – name call.

Still no answer regarding your bona fides ! Perhaps your credentials are as spurious as your arguments ?

@TucciSir, would you, could you, do a public service by directing your venom at the predatroy insurance companies and the corporate owned congress, President and media – please …

@Tucci Good for you for noticing that no one has called you any nasty names! Now, how about returning the favor?

I was the office manager for three family physicians in my working years. One was constantly angry. He knew that he was probably going to develop Huntington’s Chorea and would have to quit. It happened, and he was ordered to surrender his license. Maybe Tucci is fighting a medical problem (he says surgical) that will affect his career. He certainly is angry, and might as well blame the government as the cause of the anger instead of another source.

Tucci actually claims to have actually “posted here [anything] pertinent to the history of medicine, the laws of economics, and other facts of reality ….” Logically, this reduces to a claim to have actually “posted here [anything] pertinent to the … facts of reality ….”

And yet he appears to have failed to have convinced hardly anyone of hardly anything that would qualify as fact.

Why? Some have suggested anger. But if anger, then from whence doth such anger arise? A lost license to practice medicine? A lost clientele? A seismic rift with the medical community? Apparently, no one here knows, and Tucci sho’ ain’t talkin’.

Still, a doctor who fails to have patience will ultimately fail to have patients.

Finally: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.” ― Daniel Patrick Moynihan.

What does any of this have to do with a cute blond, with dating problem?

I do not love thee, Dr. Fell.The reason why I cannot tell;But this alone I know full well,I do not love thee, Dr. Fell.

— Translated from Latin (1st century CE)

Maybe she’ll settle for $200,000/yr, and she cares about people?

@jimbo

“What does any of this have to do with a cute blond, with dating problem?”

Nothing, obviously. Our newest troll has hijacked the thread, using it as a forum for publicly practising his smarmiest insult words. As there is no substance to his rants, I’ve been observing his style; how his insults are constructed, how frequently the same words appear, and so on. The phrase “wonderfully idiotic” is mildly interesting. And, of course, like so many seriously-but-irrationally angry people, he is very fond of accusing others of misdirecting the conversiton.

Woops, that last word should be “conversation.”

Do you ever get tired of be so demonstrably wrong. You have made me so weary of reading your unending BS, that I am just flagging it.

PS. I hope you enjoy this day. The day that one of the greatest Presidents of our generation, begins his second term. I know that you will!

Defrocked priests, disbarred lawyers, disgraced politicians, and disenfranchised doctors all have a special place in Dante’s inner rings of Hell.You have amused us with your rants and ( in your own opinion ) " well reasoned" raves, today, Dr. Tucci. Now crawl back under whatever Troll Bridge you currently inhabit. You have usurped enough of our precious time. Time is precious, as is energy. Both too precious to be wasted in trying to impress us on how brilliant and superior you think you are ! Please don’t waste either. I suspect you have very little left. So save that vigor and vitriol for those who are impressed. We are not !

Nice looking woman? I’m off to the interrnet “card catalog” alluc(dot) org where I can find on veoh The Avengers from 1961 and oogle Dianna Rigg. TTFN

Some of the young folks I know have made the conscious decision not to date much, if at all, while in school because they think romantic involvements would take too much time and energy away from the work of pursuing their academic and career goals. They’re confident about deferring that whole thing until later, apparently having no doubt they’ll find it at a better time. Others are in school partly in search of romantic involvements, with future career concerns running second. When I was in college in the late ‘60s, there was a classic joke about how so-and-so was going to school “to get her MRS.” Not Drew! She may get one of those, but not until she’s achieved her other goals first.

I considered it “compassionately Christian.”

If your guilt about how badly W. blew our nations security, that you have to mention that disputed event, go for it.

If folks who are educated enough to be doctors can’t get past the grade school name-calling stage, I’m pretty sure I don’t want them working on me in a medical situation.

Tu, Tu, Tucci Goodbye!!!!!!

Is everybody happy ?

This has been a most entertaining day on here. Just to add to the mayhem, I think that “Dr. Tucci” must have had a visit from Nurse Ratchett. It was probably time for his meds. Perhaps the surgery was to be a frontal lobotomy and he had to get it all out before it was locked away in the crevices of his mind. Or perhaps thrown into the crevasses of his mind.>>Hey Linguist, no worse for the wear I see. Glad you survived those broadsides. No leaks in the ship?

My favorite product with dire side effects is SNL’s Happy Fun Ball. Do not taunt the Happy Fun Ball!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gzDC-2ZO8I

Noblesse would not oblige to do,
to blame it all on med-stu Drew.Let’s put the gooon Doctor Tu.

@DTPi Followed by a generous application of Goo Gone?

Or would that be Tu Gone?

@DTPi Now there’s a thought!

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Just came in from a late errand…the sky over Denver is crystal clear, with constellations crisp and brilliant. Here’s to a beautiful night for all.