Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 25, 2024

Shoulda started the recording a coupla minutes ago, so the grandkids can see what Gramps was REALLY like.

Don’t adopt an American child, they don’t need adoption. (I don’t get why people do this)

lol this humor between Mark and his dad is so deadpan!

Trying to remember the strip where a guy was openly musing about adopting an 18 y/o Asian girl…

You certainly haven’t any right to brag, if you voted for gov DiStupid…

I’m glad I was adopted. The only other option was to have my neck broken, be thrown in a food processor and fed to cats

My two foster sons grew up to be far better and more responsible adults than my biological son.

Here in the present, of course, we know that Mark and Chase never adopted and ultimately broke up. However, in the years when Mark was in denial about himself, he might have slept with a few women and he might have gotten one or more of THEM pregnant so buck up, Phil, oh, wait, you’re dead now, anyway.

We can still comment on Doonesbury?

Maybe Dear ol’ Dad would be more understanding if there was a surrogate involved.

As a step-grandfather I can assure you it is not the same thing. None of my wife’s children have contacted me since shortly after she died in 2006. My wife and I were together for ten years and I cared for her personally when she contracted ALS. Only one of the stepchildren assisted in any way with her care and another of them nearly had me arrested when I was saving her mother’s life every 20 minutes. So, they are not a great loss for me.

Who does Mark’s dad think he is, Mildred Natwick??