Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 05, 2015

Yup, spending time with your child is right down there with taking a tour of some Third World country.

Slumming? Wait a few years Rick when you find yourself Tweeting for a living…

Ahh, the 80s! My ex was a naval officer, and at sea 75% of our sons’ childhoods; i.e. I single parented during those deployments and work-up periods. However, the ONE time I needed to attend a 6 day conference, he took LEAVE to take care of a 3 year old a 5 year old… vacation time!!! The eldest was in kindergarten and the younger in preschool…

This satire still works because nothing has changed in thirty years. How depressing.

But if a woman says she has better things to to than take care of the kids she produces (all by herself, apparently, if you listen to a lot of the right-wing rhetoric), then she’s a horrible person, bad mother, sinner, etc ad nauseum.

Rick is worse off than I thought, if he thinks you put talcum on a baby’s tummy after a diaper change.

Rick is the Anti-Tolstoy.

true… but maybe that’s because so many mothers/women refuse to really let their husbands do anything without constant critique or criticism for not doing it their way, thus they choose to do it all themselves.

@Timothy Madiganouch

The world joins in prayer that you never, ever spawn

You need help

Hoping next week sees an end to this boring, self-involved arc.

BTW, it’s the lioness who hunts for the food AND takes care of the young. Absent father, or sleeping, Roaring and killing the occasional tourist or guide is hard work.

It’s the beer and TV football for our species…