Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 18, 2011

But think about all the jobs the 400 create: nannies, chauffeurs, private security, cocaine dealers…

I like movies with happy endings!

DTπ,

Hope to see you here in the upcoming week.

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE meets BRAVEHEART? Didn’t Mel Gibson do that on The Simpsons? Oh wait – that was MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON.

It’ll make you forget about Thermopylae, and the ascendancy of Western Civilization.

I’m not sure who Jon is.

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I can’t imagine the 400 top families being spartan.

The sequel could be called “The 1200”. It would be all about the ex-wives of the 400.

An excellent strip: We should enact that movie in real life right away, firstly, in our voting. Elect only candidates who will tax “The 400” and use the money to help the other 300 million

Not without capital they can’t.

tigger: don’t forget about taxing the 60% of CORPORATIONS who pay zero taxes…

America was founded on a rejection of traditional European class structure which was bad enough for being hereditary but worse for being a literally ruling elite via monarchy and the nobility.

Of course there is a class structure in America, but it was a ruling class only in the imagination of those stuck with a European mind-set, and it remains a class system in which people rise or sink on their merits or mistakes. It is strange to see a mere cartoonist who has earned his status as one of the upper class turn on them like this.

We’ll see less and less of them as they move to up and coming places, like Brazil and China to use their money more wisely.

I could Iive with the US turning into Sweden or France. I think that is far more realistic than another Argentina or Zimbabwe. In fact the rest of world in general is more equitable than the US.

Tigger,there is no one who doesn’t pay taxes.. There are all kinds of taxes and anyone who pays a phone bill, electric bill, buys a gallon of overpriced gasoline, pays a federal tax. If you buy food, you are paying tax..

Sammy should just put a sock in it and get a life, elsewhere. Those who build their houses of straw men should stop lighting matches.

Betcha I know where leftwing was yesterday.

Hopefully GT’s arc on The Rogue has become history. Today’s NYT has an article on the book’s author, Jo McGinniss, whose 1969 book The Selling of the President was a brilliant study detailing how Nixon was packaged like a celebrity.McGinniss has fallen off so badly that his latest subject, SP, refused to acknowledge his reporting. He was forced to write instead about his stalking of SP. As a book-about-writing-a-book, The Rogue aims at the same reflexivity that we often find in Doonesbury (Jeff, Mike, Trudeau himself).It’s no surprise, therefore, to discover that McGinniss sought out GT to help promote his contribution to celebrity politics. Here’s the last part of the NYT review:“She put me in the story,” Mr. McGinniss said to me. He meant that she had gone too far when she publicly objected to his close presence, implying he was stalking her. Perhaps. But it was he who chose to live near her. . . .“I was offended,” Mr. McGinniss said. No doubt. Yet the episode furnished the narrative force his book otherwise lacked. . . .Just before I left, Mr. McGinniss led me to a computer. “I probably shouldn’t show you this,” he said. It was an advance sampling of “Doonesbury” with references to his book — the first phase of the selling of Joe McGinniss."You can read the review at:http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/sunday-review/the-political-provocateur.html?scp=3&sq=The%20Rogue&st=cse

See also, “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe, “The RInging of Revolution” by Phil Ochs and “Freedomtm” by Daniel Suarez.

Tanks for the update leftwing, love hearing about the “old country”. As long as B&H Photo is still on 9th Ave everything will be alright.

Demand is the only Job Creator.

Here’s an idea…if you don’t like living in America, why don’t you just go somewhere better?

Well lwp, first there’s the unofficial GoComic Pibgorn site that I used to use, but doesn’t work so well for me any more, since GoComics changed their format. Then there’s the Redcloth Textile Reference Manual that I’m using now, and has a link for making embedded links and a ton of other stuff. If one site doesn’t work then maybe the other will.

I still say, if you don’t like America, why don’t you go live somewhere better? No one will try to stop you. And take Obama with you, please.

Please quit flogging the 48% notion. It was never more than a piece of propaganda by the extreme right to justify the destruction of medicare and social security. A length article supported with actual authority appears here addressing this urban legend: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/business/economy/14leonhardt.htmlOf course those who wish to continue to believe the legend won’t read the article, perhaps because they can’t, but the rest of you might enjoy it.

@sammysock you have stretched this old talking point completely out of proportion. The actual figure is around 47% who pay no INCOME TAX at all. The reason the number is so high is because they pay something called PAYROLL TAX, which the republicans, including Regan, never had a problem with raising. They just don’t include all of that info on the “fair and balanced network”.

I love it, a real “feel good” movie.

Every time a bell rings, an angel gets his wings. Mell Gibson might get horns!

pschearer….you are one of the cluless!!!