Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 05, 2013

Gray power!!!

If that brunette was a man, Joanie would have decked him.

Oh Sister ! You have just put your young foot in it ! If you wish to continue living in your idealistic youthful bubble, you’d best shut up. You don’t realize what a riled Joanie Caucus will do to you. She will show you what a true Gray Panther is !!

So an Intern is about to get choked, good to know.

Okay, this newbie-know-nothing has got to go. Even interns are expected to be schooled in politics. If this is Washington, D.C. that this storyline is happening in, then this assistant doesn’t seem to get that there’s ‘binders full of women’ willling to clamor for her job. Her ‘I-don’t-need-to-know-anyone-who’s-not-hot’ attitude is more befitting for working the velvet rope of a club.

Oh, my, this girl is quite incompetent. First, she mistakes Joanie for the Senator’s mother (apparently unaware that her boss’ mother is dead), then she insults her for being “old.” I’m sure the Senator can find better staff than that.

She had red hair yesterday. Garry!!!

No, it’s the same one, wearing identical duds, and if you go back to yesterday’s GoComics, she’s now got brown hair.

Isn’t Liz Warren in her sixties?

The young know everthing, anyone over 30 is completely clueless. Every teenager knows this.

And this people is why the animals eat their young…. LOL

Uh oh, someone needs to go to “sensitivity training”.

youth is so wasted on the young. lol. such clueless ness. makes me think of Les Nessman of WKRP in Cincinnati.

lovely cartoon. but we need more right wing bashing, lol

She looks the same to me.

Joanie will have a word with the boss about her.

wasn’t she a red head originally?

Yes, Sen. Warren is big on diversity. She hires the young and stupid.

The comments today leave me with the feeling that a lot of older folks forget what it was like to be in their 20’s.

Joanie should sic the Gray Panthers on this nitwit!

In my twenties, I used to stand in the grocery line thinking, “Oh, no! I’m right behind some little old lady fumbling around in her change purse!” In my seventies, I stand there behind thinking,“Oh, no! I hope there’s no one behind me in a hurry while I’m fumbling around in my change purse!” Oh now one’ s perspective changes! Or not.

@MiepRI just clicked back to yesterday’s and the hair is brown!

Seriously, didn’t Joanie’s and my generation say the same about older people when we getting involved in politics 40 years ago? (and the answer is “YES”) payback hurts..You might want to remind that little tart just WHO wrote Elizabeth’s speach!

or her speech!

perks of the golden years. also, invisibility

Morons are people, too, which accounts for how the intern got there.

Of course, diversity in the workplace leads to mediocrity in the workplace. I always tried to get the very best people to work for me and not necessarily a person from every category the government could dream up.

What professional would ever hire such a tactless bunch of people for their office to talk to the public? And, Joanie…you need to get a stylist, pronto. And maybe a vat of Avon’s anti-aging products for the face and neck.

Early one morning the sun was shining.I was laying in bedWondering if she’d changed at all,If her hair was still red.—Bob Dylan

And the republicans wonder why they’re losing elections…“The Lamestream Media won’t get our message out.” No, it’s because there isn’t one, if this is all they’ve got. And it is.

Once again, Doonesbury passes the Bechdel Test.

Teleprompter! 57!! Love Story!!!

I know someone who spoke to older folks this way and with that stupid down talking ‘voice’. She herself is now older but instead of seeing how she was, she now treats young folks as if they are idiots.

Remember when we were young and stupid?

You’re gonna be old someday too, you snarky bitch …

Re: The red hair vs. the brown. This is intriguing. I dug up yesterday’s Tampa Bay Times, and the young twit’s hair was blazing red, as it was in GoComics when I first looked at it yesterday. I just looked at the Monday GoComics strip again, and presto-chango, the hair was brown! In the Monday comments, @MiepR said something about the red hair early on. Then someone else told Miep that it was brown. (I don’t recall looking back at the strip again – who’d expect it to change?) So wha hoppen? Was Garry playing a little joke on us?

Definitely an “ouch” moment. At the age of 60, I’m having to get used to the idea of young people offering to help me get up any time I am lower than chair level.

People try to put us down.Talking ‘bout my generation.Just because we get around.Talking ’bout my generation.Things they do look awful cold.Talking’ ’bout my generation.Yeah, I hope I die before I get old.Talking ’bout my generation.—Pete Townsend (This opinion may not be operative at the current point in time.)

The question “Did she take her medication this morning” is always asked before surgery, not afterward. Therefore, it is probable they were treating her like an idiot before any anesthesia was administered. Not to mention the fact that many day surgeries use milder forms that allow the patient to be fully alert within an hour.

Kid’s just as clueless as everyone else who voted for the democrats

At least GT is addressing the real issue of diversity!

When you have old-people affirmative action, everyone assumes you were hired BECAUSE you’re an old person.

Issac Asimov once penned a limerick dealing with such a situation. I cannot quote the whole piece,but I think the ending fits perfectly, “… with one blow I killed that rotten kid.”

Joanie might be thinking of these immortal words from Maltby and Shire:

“And these sweet young things who hire me now,These MBAs making fifty thou,*Who smile and ask what I have done,When THEY GOT THEIR JOBS THROUGH THE FIGHTS I WON!”

.*it was the 70s

OMG this is so much worse than getting ma’amed!!!! GT is hysterical!!

Preach elsewhere? Come off it. What do you do except preach the Gospel according to Sean Hannity?

You’re young and you’re guy; she’s old and just a woman.

A speaker on gender issues, youthful and pretty, described being interviewed by a bank which was trying to “break” the glass ceiling that was maintaining an all-male high echelon. Every question and statement made by the bank representative was directed to the young man with her as her assistant, even when he repeatedly redirected the statement to his boss. This is the mindset that goes unrecognized in many if not most conversations in which the female is the relevant authoritty and the male an assistant.

And even ‘modern women’ can be fools.

Too bad she hires people that don’t “get it.”

Said the incredibly wise poster!

Dying your hair doesn’t fool the young’uns, Joanie.

and you thought Alex was bad!