Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for November 18, 2021

If they disqualified every bicyclist who took steroids or doped, the only competitors left would be a bunch of 12 year-olds riding the bikes they use to deliver newspapers.

In other words, Kim, you were dating the French Lance Armstrong.

Oh, where’s the the time when French cycling champs ran on steak and Kronenbourg?

I get Mike’s reluctance. It’s easier to trust a stranger than someone who’s hurt you before, regardless of how beautiful.

Q1: Which of these have you heard the least about?

  A) Cheating in the Olympics: doping

  B) Cheating in football: deflategate

  C) Cheating in baseball: stealing signals

  D) Cheating in politics: gerrymandering

Q2. Which one will actually make a difference in YOUR life?

They could always get that kid from “Better Off Dead”…just pay him the two dollars…lol

Panel two, dangeling or setting the hook?

Super magnet mini motors and lithium batteries are allowing the bicycles to cheat.

He had other ‘shortcomings’ as well, obviously, if he was juicing.

I suspect after you dumped Mike for a French guy he even switched to Freedom Fries like those knuckle heads in Washington DC. Maybe that’s why we beat them on the submarine deal in Australia.

She could live with a mistress or 2, that’s considered obligatory for French cycling champs.

You seem to be implying that since doping is normal, we should give it a pass.

I’ve always wondered about any “sport” in which you compete sitting down.

“It’s the biggest dope ring in years.And this man is the head dope!”

Groucho Marx—AT THE CIRCUS—1939

Not to mention his shaved legs. Stubble can be a b***h.

Looking forward to the Organ Harvest games next year!

We are currently in the beginnings of the arc which, twenty-five years ago today, had the strip where Mike decides he’s in with Kim’s idea for their future.

Every boomer’s dream….hot younger woman begs the older guy to be taken back…..

He was a lousy lover.

And the steroids made his, oh you know shrink.

Doesn’t look like groveling to me.

One of my nieces was going with a guy who had dropped out of college but not told his parents, so that they would continue to support him. It didn’t take her long to think, "Wait a minute—if he’s lying to his parents, should I believe what he’s saying to me?