Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for July 30, 2011

My compliments to all GBT Doonesbury readers who commented on the previous strip. Basically, everybody got it right! It’s all in his head. Whatta bright group!

It’s sad. It’s pitiful. It’s Jeff Redfern.

Remember in The 70’s Show, every time someone was getting stoned the camera angle would change and every thing would get a little weird? They never showed the bong, but you knew it was code for what was going on? It’s the same with Jeff. Every time you see him dressed like a Mullah you know that’s code for, “Jeff’s trippin’.”

Love the name of Sorkh’s steed, easily shifted to “Betray Us”. Love the empty beer cans in panel 4. Unless they’re Red Bull or something, our dude does indeed drink alcoholic bevs.

Dylan, those look like beer cans to me as well. I read the horses name that way as well.

At some point, some one is gonna come looking to make a name for himself, and that won’t end well for Jeff.

Good points, Pal and Rob. Still, I think GBT has bigger plans for Jeff — like becoming a published writer. No immortal like Cervantes, to be sure, but successful enough to make a living at it.

I left. Just got back from Cowboys and Aliens. Jeff, please get some help.

Petreaus = Betray Us. OMG,that is soooo clever. I am just impressed with your cutting wit. Did you think of that all by yourself? Wow. Could I please have your baby, like, now ;) I bet you are one of those clever people that calls the Tea Party believers Tea Baggers too. No wonder the left is winning the intellectual battle. Keep up the good work!

Am editing a book, and can’t keep my eyes open any more. Do appreciate your remarks on Doonesbury, though; they give me welcome breaks. .Night all, .dtπ

Bucephalus would be another good name for the horse.

How about Lassie? There’s trouble?

Now discuss the Jungian implications of riding “The General” over the rooftops of Arlington back to his house.

I wonder if a game developer could use a CIA dropout.

Left-wingers who call tea-partiers tea-baggers are as intellectual as right-wingers who call President Obama a Muslim socialist. Both sides should just stop the name calling and grow up.

There’s a saying that God looks after drunks and fools..I foresee Jeff’s fiction writing making him millions. He does come from good writing stock…and I’m sure Sid Kibitz is due for another project…Redfern, Redford, Redding..soundtrack by Simply Red..It’s a killer!

Good morning all…

“Bucephalus or Bucephalas (/bjuːˈsɛfələs/; Ancient Greek: Βουκέφαλος or Βουκεφάλας, from βούς bous, “ox” and κεφαλή kephalē, “head” meaning “ox-head”) (c. 355 BC – June 326 BC) was Alexander the Great’s horse and one of the most famous actual horses of antiquity.1 Ancient accounts2 state that Bucephalus died after the Battle of the Hydaspes in 326 BC, in what is now modern Pakistan, and is buried in Jalalpur Sharif outside of Jhelum, Pakistan. Another account states that Bucephalus is buried in Phalia, a town in Pakistan’s Mandi Bahauddin District, which is named after him.".Source: Wikipedia @http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucephalus.So while he was conquering the then-known “world”, Alexander the Great would call out, “Oxhead!”, and the giant steed would come loping over. Whatta horse, huh? Shows that Coyoty Smurf has some “learnin’” inside him.My opinion, after sleeping for 6 hours, is that Rick and Joanie should try to help Jeff. First, they could recognize that he spends long hours working — writing. .There is a great prejudice against stumbling young unpublished writers in this country — that what they are doing isn’t “work”. Bzzzzzt — Wrong! I’m a writer, and I can tell you that real, creative writing, even if never formally published, is harder work than woodmill work, maintenance work, construction work, and “dorm monitor” work, all of which I did while I was working my way through boarding high school, and boarding college..Furthermore, most writers, unless they are at the level of J. K. Rowling in that “golden circle” with successful professional actors (like Jack Nicholson) and vocalists (like Lady Gaga), etc., are vastly UNDERPAID compared, say, to electronic or computer engineers. Even plumbers! .Ease off, America! WRITING IS HARD WORK.

Just wondering whose “Autobiography” would make a better movie. The Red Rascals or Bucky Katt’s from Get Fuzzy? I figure if it’s an action movie it’s probably this one.

In retrospect, that the girls commented on the color of Sorkh Razil’s eyes as he entered the nightclub wearing sunglasses was an obvious give-away that this was a complete fantasy in Jeff’s mind.

Let’s examine Jeff’s situation:1. Attended Walden College (Yeah, that’s an asset)2. Kicked out of Afghanistan, and, I assume, the CIA also3. On the blacklist of a mercenary company4. No obvious technical skills5. May have, to a degree, some language skills (he was in Afghanistan ostensively as a translator, although not a very good one)6. Close to 30 and living at home7. Wears his sunglasses at all times (Who other than dorks and psychos does that?)

Yeah, the future looks bright.

Citation needed, Blue Raven. I doubt Tea Partiers adopted it first, any more than the real Sarah Palin (not Tina Fey) said she could see Russia from her house.

This being Saturday, I expect the number of comments will be high. I’ll be away in meetings all day, so won’t see ya till evening. .Buy (economy needs U2),.dtπ

@waitingman: i agree with you wholeheartedly. @dtpi: how refreshing to read a comment in which someone is not afraid to put greek letters. could you tell me how it is done? i have a feeling i heard of it before, but i can’t remember how. i like this style of using the shift key as little as possible!! however, i will not use it all the time. doing any one thing all the time is too boring.

Whattaya mean, “In his head!” MIchelle Bachmann reported him to the police in Arlington because she saw him damaging roof tops- she even has the broken “roof tiles” to PROVE it! And Sarah saw him weeks ago from her porch, invading Russia!

Yes, exactly like Tim DeChristopher.

I’d worry. He’s too close to the screen

OK, I just had to Google [“Tim DeChristopher”]; he’s the ‘Bidder 70’ on the (illegal) oil and gas leases auction back in 2008 (to draw attention to the huge rip-off of public lands by the oil barons).He was just sentenced Tuesday the 26th in Salt Lake to two years, though the damage he may or may not have caused is questionable at best.More at His own activist statement (long, worth reading) at sentencing.“We gon’ make an example outta you, boy!”

Jeff’s fantasies are always fun. His parents should help him get paid for his writing. Then maybe they could charge him rent.

BlueRaven:“Sorry, but the Tea Party called itself Teabaggers first.”… Sorry, no. “Teabaggers” is sexual slang used by those opponents of the tea party who have the vocabulary and courtesy of some of the worst 15 year olds. You could find Fox News repeating the term maybe once or twice before someone told the anchors what it meant. It’s no better than replacing, say, Obama’s name with, say, F%*ker. Which any decent person would also object to. If a person is capable of logic and reason, there’s little room left for obscene namecalling. And vice versa.