Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 02, 2010
Transcript:
Man: So after President Roth banned you, we re-named the festival "Ze-who-must-not-be-named Day"! Zonker: Nice. Man: They made us change the name of Duke Day, too! Zonker: Duke Day? Wesleyan also honored my uncle? Man: Every October for 30 years! Zonker: Wow... sounds like a special place. Man: It was, but then the darkness came. Help us, dude!
ransomdstone almost 14 years ago
Clark. I believe you refer to the totally “wrong”?
Sandfan almost 14 years ago
They’re on to us, guys. Warm up the black helicopters.
Wildcard24365 almost 14 years ago
“Duke” Day… I’m thinking, I’m thinking…
Nemesys almost 14 years ago
Clark, in the 60’s the far right was represented by entities such as the Ku Klux Klan, whose members were largely Democrats. Some of those Klan leaders (or “Exalted Cyclops”) were elected to public office, where they voted against every black nomination to the Supreme Court (including Justice Marshall) and filibustered to block progressive human rights legislation.
ronebofh almost 14 years ago
Uh oh, mightaswellbe is indulging in that well known liberal vice known as “facts”. Hide the children.
ChiehHsia almost 14 years ago
@ mightaswellbe, that’s how I remember it too, and I was old enough that I think I remember it correctly.
Nelly55 almost 14 years ago
mighaswellbe is right
they were called “Dixiecrats” back then and they bore no resemblance to the Dems of the rest of the country at all.
I’m really old enough to remember
Chrisnp almost 14 years ago
The “solid south” was solidly Democrat and solidly segregationist from the end of reconstruction through about 1948, (Remember, Lincoln was a Republican) then the right wing tried splitting off the first time as the Dixiecrats, They came back to the party weaker, and by ‘61 they were able to sucessfully run a Catholic for president. That wouldn’t have happened 12 years earlier. I think the event that sealed the Dems fate as being the liberal/civil rights party was the Chicago National Convention in 68, where all he!! broke loose.
freeholder1 almost 14 years ago
fb/Chris: You are referring to Dixiecrats who are no Republicans. times change, parties change, evil hearts remain the same. And they left because the dems voted in JFK (an evil catholic) and one of their own passed civil rights laws.
rick: it doesn’t matter. You wouldn’t remember what happened afterward anyway.
freeholder1 almost 14 years ago
Richard: USSR is now our “ally” and we are owned by China. And Saudi Arabia. Please keep up. :-)
diggitt almost 14 years ago
Wesleyan’s president must be plotzing. At least, I hope so. What a humorless jerk! I thought a key ingredient in intelligence is humor, even whimsy.
I guess the president of Wesleyan is one of those life-is-real-life-is-earnest types who always lead their constituents off the deep end.
Dirty Dragon almost 14 years ago
I presume “Duke Day” is bring your own needle?
T Gabriel Premium Member almost 14 years ago
It’s funny to read all of these comments from so many two-dimensional or even one-dimensional thinkers and juxtapose it with the storyline they seem to be trying to keep up with.
Yawl a funny bunch!
Nemesys almost 14 years ago
legacyshooter, even one dimension is better than none. You may not agree with what others have said, but you yourself said nothing at all.
Radfish, are you suggesting that RNC Chairman Michael Steele has trouble with white males?
jollyjack almost 14 years ago
Michael Steele works well for whites, they do not even require that he grow a beard.
jeanne1212 almost 14 years ago
One of the fun things about surviving into my 80’s has been watching how History re-writes itself every decade! And how everybody reacts as if every change is Final – and/or destructive.
May you, too, live in interesting times, with a well-kicked bucket.
RinaFarina almost 14 years ago
@Nemesys; legacyshooter did say something - he pointed out that everyone was so busy arguing they stopped bothering to follow the story in the strip.
U think anybody would have noticed, if not been told?
jeanne1212 almost 14 years ago
RinaFarina … with this crowd they’ve mostly ignored the fact that it is a COMIC strip, too
Which is half the fun in itself.. giggle giggle.
Good Old Boys at work and play.
FriscoLou almost 14 years ago
All that’s missing is the Mighty Mouse music.
Legacyshooter needs to patrol the forum a little more often. Some of us need his MC jolt. He reminds me of that DI therapist from “Mamby Pamby Land”
… ooops, now I’m doing it.
tcambeul almost 14 years ago
Too bad that the “pinko. commie, liberals” weren’t the targets.
Dragoncat almost 14 years ago
“Ze-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named”?
Reminds me of Horace Rumpole (Rumpole of the Bailey). Love that show…
He had a lovely wife named “She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed”.
pbarnrob almost 14 years ago
^”Ze…” of course, the -other- reference to (shall we just say it? VOLDEMORT!) from the Harry Potter ouvre… which if my poor command of any of the Romance languages serves, adds up to ‘Full of Death’. Appropriate in the current sequence!