Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 07, 2011

Send out Change of Orientation cards to all who need to know.

Good point, lwp. Her old acquaintances will yawn at the news, and any new lovers would take her as she is. Nothing has changed for Roz—-coming out makes her neither more nor less loveable.

Is she going to change her mind in a few years and marry a guy, like Sheryl Swoopes did?

Leaving to one side the problems for military personnel that this policy change will inevitably cause, would YOU like to fly in a helicopter that was maintained by people whose minds were obviously on other matters (like this conversation) instead of concentrating on what they were supposed to be doing?

Call the Westies. They’ll start a protest and her problems will be over.

What about the punchline which pokes fun at human beings having to ‘market’ themselves to the world that we live in. To have a public image. GT is getting us to look at that and hope we say…Who Cares! Facebook must Die!

Way to go, Tex!

Jg, in my time in the military I found that NO ONE thought about their job 24/7. Or do you think a 19-25 year old straight guy is not going to be thinking about girls half the time he’s working on those choppers?

According to Senator Santorum, military personnel who are not married don’t have sex…. Of course Rick has never served in the military… Wonder what McCain did while he was in the military during Vietnam?

jgcp1— this is such a stupid remark I have to assume you’re a troll. Or else, you were never a man under 90. Or in a flight crew, or a mechanic’s pit, or assembly line, or around the water cooler, or the directors’ dining room, or an all-boy catechism class. Last I heard, studies showed that across the board, post-puberty males think about sex every five minutes.

@ TexTech, Alms4Thorby, and diggitt, Thank you!

Actually, under the “Cheney/Rumsfeld” military model, CONTRACTORS would be doing all helicopter maintenance, and support, even in combat zones. We wouldn’t be worried about “military” personnel "orientation’. The contracting model goes back to Viet Nam era in fact when stateside contractors did the (poor) maintenance on our birds. “Halliburton helos” ARE the corporate objective.

I thought Mel was of the flight-line after being promoted? How did she get away from her desk job?

Fourth panel: What’s with the marks on Roz’s cheek and arm?

@Stephen G – it’s called “dirt”. Comes from working on machinery, as these two evidently are doing.

if you really want to get the slant on these toons, go to the .com site for it. trudeau is just plain strange. he even hides the turkey-flab on his chin in his photos. he’s so far Left he’d scare Lenin into the GOP….

“Trudeau is so far left…” – right, and Mike Doonesbury – the cartoon’s namesake – happens to be a Republican. It sounds like you don’t really know what left really means. If I had turkey flab I’d probably want to hide it too.

Drome, neither Strauss-Kahn nor Clinton has criminally assaulted a woman. I do not necessarily approve their relations with women, but they have not been found to have committed criminal assault.