Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for September 27, 2011

I am pretty sure 5 of the Supreme Court justices agree with Perry.

Now we know Jeff gets some (a bit) of his humongoid naiveté from his father. He thinks Gov. Perry will understand what the term “law of gravity” means, not to mention the difference between politics and physics. Still, it’s refreshing to see four panels of biting humor without the “dim bulb”. (Sorry for posting that Becca babe might be romantically interested in him.)

Perry is too confused by language to query Rick’s false analogy (political fame = a physical object). If GBT is looking for a real duel of wits, he should avoid an unarmed opponent.Besides, Obama has already shot down this clown with his remark that Gov. Perry, even though his state is on fire, continues to deny global warming.

Polly want a cracker?

We though the expiration date was January 20, 2009 but Perry came along and renewed it.

Gravity. All those centuries and still only a Theory.

No politician should be able to run for office while continuing to hold another. As with switching parties, they should be required to resign and then run.

Perry denies global warming and his state goes through a drought. Then he leads Texas in prayer and the state catches fire.Then he says God wants him to run for Prez and he flubs the debate, and he’s smoked by Herman Cain.Somebody up there doesn’t like him!

What does gravity have to do with poll numbers?

Why not? They’ve already repealed Murphy’s Law and the Peter Principle.

The gravity of the situation lost this week. The free pizza party topped all expectations. What makes texans compelled to stare at the sun?

@AlbertNonyMouseOBA sounds like Maxine, so would her worshipers be Maxineians?

We wouldn’t be served these warmed up leftovers if Perry hadn’t jumped in the race.

Albert – Thanks, that is a deity I could believe in!

Also, speaking of Dunning-Kruger, go read “The Peter Principle”.

Less a joke at the Texan’s expense than the entire Republican Party’s. A wholesale repudiation of all scientific principals when they don’t agree with the Bible, the Book of Mormon, or Corporate Interests, tends to make them look like a row of bad jokes.

We are SOOOO tired of “dumb Texan” jokes, but they keep cranking them out!

But to answer your question, I believe the expiration date for “dumb Texan” and “dumb Minnesotan” and “dumb Alaskan” jokes will be the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November of 2012

There are too many Texans supplying too many ready targets for the “dumb Texan” jokes to be retired.If Texans can ever learn to stop treating their own residents like scum and pretending they’re better than the rest of the United States, then we’ll agree they might be growing up at last.

On the other hand, I’m not holding my breath about Texans growing up, becoming reasoning beings, or developing any sort of political acumen that doesn’t victimize the rest of the United States at their expense.

The Dunning-Kruger Effect …interesting. It does explain a great deal of American society and politics. Also interesting: that it may be primarily an American phenomenon, suggestive of the deep historic anti-intellectual bias in our culture.

Polly is a cracker

“I’m crackin’ ’em up in the aisles.”.Crackin’ up peanuts again, Polly?

“Have you noticed the sour taste?”.I don’t eat spoiled peanuts, Polly.

“GT ripped this idea off from a fake internet story …”..And a Perry flunky faked the I-net story?

Here in Texas we don’t teach theories, just facts, like bushes and asses that speak.

Perry knows the difference between Politics and Physics, Politics is real!

In many drought prone regions fire is part of the natural ecology. Some seed husks are too thick to sprout until scorched or cracked by fire. It reduces competition for limited water. Abrasion from sandstorms & flash-floods, which carry the seed far from the parent works, too. Particulate matter from brush-fires could seed the clouds. Man-made climate change is a seperate argument as old as the Sahara forest.

Texas has a nasty drought roughly every fifty years, and has had since folks started keeping records. Last one was in the 1950s — we were overdue. It’s normal.

@Pokerfaced Parrot,

There is no expiratiion date.

Chuckliti, Dasmann and others did show that “Man made” climate change DID alter the climate in the Med and increase the size of the Sahara, significantly. This was shown back in the 1950’s. Denial of science, as opposed to challenging or investigating “hypotheses” is NOT the same thing. That folks “believe” texts and myths written down thousands of years ago by goat herders instead- is stupidity.(Even if, like crop rotation, there are valid lessons to be learned, insisting the Earth is only 6,000 years old and dinosaurs wore saddles, is insanity.)

much easier to just declare paleolithic science a fraud and secede from the US. heh.

next up: Bachman and whatshername from alaska. hahahahah

I know Parrot must be talking about all those, “Somewhere in Texas a Village is missing an Idiot” T-Shirts. I can visualize him as Davy Crocket on Halloween.

Great link Mouse, I didn’t know Kruger Dunning was the word for it. I always thought it was blowhard, i.e. “Scientific data shows that Texas has the nation’s highest rate of blowhards, both analogue and digital.”

If Christie gets into the race, shouldn’t he get Haley Barbour to balance out the ticket? (get it, balance ha, ha, ha)

I have not made one comment regarding Perry’s intelligence. You aske about the expiration date and I told you that it was renewed when Perry entered the presidential race. Every comment I have posted as been in direct reference to either the strip or a comment posted by somebody else. I am willing to argue facts and ideas, if you wish. I will not take part in personal attacks. It seems your primary goal is to censor the posters you disagree with by engaging in diatribes and personal attacks. I believe no positive purpose is acheived by interacting with you and I will no longer respond to your comments or questions.

@leftwingpatriot (re pokerfaced parrot): WELL SAID!!!

Nobody has to worry about my comments. When I don’t know what’s going on, &/or I don’t have anything to say… guess what!!! I don’t say anything.

Wouldn’t you like to be payed by the number of comments per day?

“Boy! my computer has 91 comments on it today. I think I’ll take tomorrow off.”

Well, if gravity is so universal, then how do you explain upsidaisium? I rest my case, your honor!

Hang tough, LWP. I salute you for your self-restraint. I have a terrible problem wanting to respond personally to personal attacks, and end up deleting posts after I have thought them over. RinaFarina has also won my respect in this regard. And the common core of responders, through their own self-restraint, keep this blog above average, in my opinion, by not sinking into the gutter of multiple personal attacks.

It’s too much to hope that Dunning-Kruger Parrot (DKP) will grow tired of posting his non-thoughts. DKP is not interested in listening, just squawking. Maybe he’ll get laryngitis, or choke on one of his rancid stereotypes.

.LWP, DT and Rina,

I was about to post my plan to ignore juvenile sniping that doesn’t even make sense. Spot the moniker and move on.

Per the comic — Naw, it’s just another Theory.