Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for June 18, 2017

Don’t worry, the dog is looking after them.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=M3BDuFhSLuM

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I’m relatively new to Doonesbury, is she the baby in the current old strips?

@RandallW Correct! Excellent guess. And welcome!

and yesterday’s baby is alll growed up

Depends on the parents, depends on the children as to how they turn out.

Is “balance” now a dirty word? We either neglect the kids completely or we don’t let them breathe on their own?

As I’ve come to realize and pass on to others: It doesn’t matter what you do or don’t do, it’s either right or wrong to everyone else. One can only do the best they can at the moment you do it!

Happy Father’s Day! To free range and helicopter parents alike!

It’s no wonder liberals want free health care and daycare paid for by someone else.

Sort of a spoiler for the daily retros.

We liberals are willing to pay with our taxes for health care for the poor, using the power of numbers to get price reductions for the services, so that we don’t live in a plague-ridden society with a disabled work force.

Not sure of the conservatives’ motives for fighting for conditions that will bring about the opposite. Jesus? Apple pie? Tax cuts for the rich?

Yes, we liberals would rather pay with our taxes for education, health and welfare, rather than tax cuts for rich and the overblown military industrial complex.

I love the Roland hedley tweet at the bottom. The teacher of the year with the fan, bless his heart. Donald did say he liked the fan. He wants the window dressing of supporting certain ideas without really supporting those ideas, i.e. Here is a photo op, but let’s not support gay rights or whatever. Roland hedley decided the teacher was fanning the prez, despite AC in the White House since 1930. Lol.

Wait a minute! Last time the twins were featured, weren’t they preschool-aged!? Keep the timeline straight please; it’s hard enough bouncing from the late 80’s to the present every Sunday… :) My own Alex was born in ‘85 and his brother in ’88. They settled for Master’s degrees, not PhD’s. Maybe if I had provided such a dysfunctional environment they’d have “Piled higher and Deeper” like Alex Doonesbury did.

My first impression of this day’s strip is that it justifies breaking the weekday retros to do a week of fresh daily strips covering this theme.

BTW, Alex exaggerates negatively on her parents. There are plenty of strips from back then of Mike at home listening to the TV, and Alex was shown to have great rapport with her step-mom Kim.

Though I don’t agree with the politics of RP Murray, I am not disturbed by anyone making a political comment on this page. Doonesbury is, and always has been, political. The raison d’etre for Doonesbury was originally political. We have issues like Vietnam and Watergate to thank for the very existence of Doonesbury. The Vietnam and Watergate era were a tough time when it was fairly impossible to escape politics. I would argue that right now will also be remembered in that same way. Unfortunately, these are not ordinary times. We can’t keep our heads in the sand. That is what the trumpsters of the world want, but it is not what they shall have. Changes have to be made in order to avoid another joke election such as the one we just had. The electoral college needs to go the way of the dodo bird. We need to hold onto paper ballots to verify our choices in elections. We need to make sure that all have the opportunity to vote, not just those who are in suburbia with plenty of access. All of these things must be discussed. There are plenty of nonpolitical cartoons, such as Family Circus, Beetle Bailey, Peanuts, and others. I enjoy seeing the political comments by Mr. Trudeau in the sequential format of his strip, rather than the usual presentation of editorial cartoons. Doonesbury is not entirely unique in this way, we once saw a strip called Pogo which also was presented in this way, but Doonesbury is somewhat unique in the way it is presented in comparison to many others and I appreciate that very much.

Which all reminds me to ask: anyone know what happened to Jack’s World and Lame Random Name? They never comment anymore, and all of their past posts have disappeared. Did their contracts run out on inauguration day?

I just realized that this, too, is a rerun, if not as old as the dailies. It’s from June 15, 2014. That explains why it depicts the twins as younger than when last seen.