Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 23, 2010

Oh no, this strip is going to launch another infinite set of theological arguments and biblical quotes! I’m sure that there will be learned discussions about the Talmud from the usual suspects.

@Horace: Quite.

Sheik: relax. GT’s Sunday strips usually aren’t tied into the current dailies, because many papers only carry Doonesbury on Sunday. Look at the Sunday strips for May, and you’ll see they’re not directly linked into the preceding or following weeks.

Although a murderous sociopathic thug, we tend to forget that Trff Bmzklfrpz, a.k.a: “Excellency”, is also pretty sharp. Neat the way Excellency first built up Duke and Earl with a complement and then jerked the rug under them with his little observation.

Of course, it goes to illustrate just how much research Duke and Earl actually performs that they overlooked a small detail like the ethnicity of the rebels.

Um, Josh? This is a comic strip, not a political manifesto. Cojones do not and should not come into it.

pksampso, for some people, everything is about cojones. “When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.”

Debating learned discussion about a comic strip. Perfect.

OF COURSE cojones come into it! It’s a POLITICAL comic strip, or at least it used to be. (Confession: I’ve been reading it for over 25 years.) That’s why so many papers moved it to the Editorial page from the Comics page.

Since the Big O became president, it took GT approximately forever to start to remove the kid gloves, and he still has them only halfway off.

One of the erstwhile hallmarks of GT’s humor was his willingness (or eagerness) to poke pins into the President’s balloon of authority and competence. That’s been sadly (almost completely) lacking since the last election.

James Taranto has an interesting theory that the press’ general hesitancy to engage BO like a regular President is contributing to the hubris that seems likely to be the cause of his downfall.

..it’s better without the last two panels…

Time to throw some Tala-mud in their faces!

Catholics all week, Jews on Sunday? They will work for us that day. I know. I Protest-ant too much.

Briss-tling with controversy.

I suspect GT didn’t remove the kid gloves cause he may feel like the piling on from the right needs a little yeast to leaven the bread, Jeffie. Maybe he also felt we needed to wait and see if the left can repair the mess the “wrong” left them. (Biblical reference for Sheik’s sake. I’ll find a Koran reference to please him sometime.) Also GT has a famous wife , too, so he can relate.

Very hilarious, GT.

It’s getting harder and harder for me to see anything funny about what these two (three) slime-balls do.

There must be a point here, or maybe it is funny. Oh wait…this is GT in 21st century. Never mind.

@freeholder

Both Jesus and Paul adapt the proverb, “A little yeast leavens the whole lump.” But where Jesus (Matt. 13) compares the yeast to the Kingdom of Heaven, Paul applies it to the sexual swingers in his Corinthian congregation (1 Cor. 5) and to the Judaizers trying to corrupt his flock in Galatia (Gal. 5).

Which of these diametrically opposed leavening effects–the healing or the corrupting–did you mean to impute to GT’s political satire?

It what happens to every message board I’ve seen that isn’t closely monitored and edited – the Crazies eventually take over. Why should the Doonesbury board be any different?

As I said in a post earlier this week – GT manages to insult everyone eventually. That’s why it’s so much fun. Better learn to laugh at yourself if you want to read this comic.

lindz.coop said, “As I said in a post earlier this week – GT manages to insult everyone eventually.”

I am very sure GT would disagree with you that he insults people. But you are right. GT’s strips these days are reduced to hurling out insults. And that’s why it’s no longer funny.

I’d agree that GT appears to have abandoned the obvious political targets from decades past. Maybe he wanted to give legs to Obama’s promise of bipartisan leadership. Whatever his motives, GT has replaced his vital slapstick with a more reflective, bemused kind of satire.

Nowadays, instead of making us laugh at the improbable, GT invites us to weep at actual absurdity. For example, this strip mocking Duke and Earl trenches rather close upon Obama’s troubles in bringing Karzai to heel.

GT has extended his political satire to political allegory. He’s not as funny as he was, but his bite is more telling.

How about Berzerki Diamond Merchants? It worked well for Al Sharpton.

http://dir.salon.com/story/news/feature/2003/06/20/sharpton/print.html

I think I’ll go mock some spiritual beliefs…

Non-theism is my spiritual belief.

If there can be “Russian Mafia” why can’t there be Jewish Taliban?

airjordaner (from about 3 hours ago) just flagged. They don’t learn, do they?

AVOID www.jordaner.com and www.bccboots.com…

Take the ‘Boulder Pledge’ – don’t do any business with spammers, ever!

…this strip is as good as it ever has been..just a great comic..

When I was young I wanted GT for president. As my hair grew thin I wanted him tarred and feathered Now I want him back Come on GT, you haven.t got a rise out of me in a while.

Will today’s strip be available today? Still reading yesterday’s…

Yeah, where’s today’s strip?

Lew, I’m glad that you re-appreciate DOONESBURY. It is, with CALVIN & HOBBES, one of the two greatest American comic strips in the last fifty years.

Don’t you just love how the smallest detail can make the greatest significance?

Are there any radical extremist Jews that GT needs to watch out for?