Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 04, 2015

Zeke still has hope.

Zeke is a "conservative"…

I can’t stand people like this, and believe me, I have met a lot of them in my life. Zeke is the type of person who thinks he can get anything and everything he wants because he wants it, and because he wants it he has a right to it.

I can understand that it didn’t work out between Mike and JJ. What I can’t understand is what possessed her to return to this creep.

Montessori Teacher,Just want to let you know, you are missed..LWP

Especially after reading all these comments I realize that everyone is having the same sort of “flashback” experience. We all, or mostly, read this story the first time around. This time we are reading it with prescience and it’s a whole different experience. Maybe this is all some sort of karmic payback for Joanie’s wrong actions, with Mike and Rick both just bit players.

“Hope is a tease designed to prevent us from accepting reality.”

In the style of the era, he calls her “man” in each sentence. I always thought that was funny. Lot of guys still do it. I always had a problem with calling a girl or woman “man”, just never seemed right.

Typical lazy parasitic slug that our social programs unfortunately support, along with the people the program was designed for.

The way Uncle Stupidhead sees it is based on the well known song with the lyrics:.“Try to see it my wayOnly time will tell if I am right or I am wrongWhile you see it your wayThere’s a chance that we may fall apart before too longWe can work it outWe can work it out”.And even after time shows his way is wrong, he continues down the same path.Consistent.

Zeke Brenner, the King of Denial.

Yet many manage

I seem to recall coming across people like Zeke. Having to end almost every sentence with “man”. It was a noun, verb, adjective and pronoun. And it drove me crazy. At the very least use it on the correct gender!….. I did on a few of these ‘dudes’ say "you mean ‘Woman’ not ‘Man’ don’t you? Like talking to head filled with air. sigh.

Zeke doesn’t “seem to understand” much.

Well, I politely disagree. As a fringe hippy in the 60s, it was very common. For some reason, a lot of black guys still do it. It just seemed odd. For the sake of the argument, let me rephrase; guys would interject “man” as though it were punctuation, even when speaking to a female, making it appear as though he was calling her “man”. How’s that?