Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for January 18, 2012

A bit too skinny…

Look at it this way: because of Obama she has work.

 Wasn’t expecting Toggle’s remark — it made me LOL — brilliant solution!

Yesterday Skye said Sherm was “sweet”; today he calls her "darlin’. If a romance is brewing, I’d bet on Sherm rather than Leo.

This reminds me of why I didn’t make the first million in media. There are a few other places, too. There are some things I know I won’t do. That’s one reason I can’t ever be a Republican or conservative…I won’t take advantage of the weaker or poorer…so Skye is, in her ‘professionalism’, already a sell-out, and untrustworthy.

@DylanThomas: Bolocks! Didn’t you see how Leo looked at her in yesterday’s strip? I bet Sherm calls everybody ‘darling’.

By the way, jrmerm, what if there was some underarm hair? We’re born with it, you know. Even women. I hope Europeans never get as inhibited about body hair as Americans.

Could be a boy named Skye. Girl’s names do happen to boys. Johnny Cash sang about “A Boy Named Sue”. Then there’was Billy Grahan’s iconic singer George Beverly Shea. And I worked in periodical publishing with a very masculine guy named Shirley who was a typesetter.

“Does everything have to have romance attached?”As one politico might put it “Only as long as there are men and woman”…..Rapunzel,Rapunzel,“let down your underarm hair”?

She looks like she’s on something.

In Panel 2, is that herpes on her right of the mouth?

@Dean, it’s a lip ring. Goes with the tats.

Lotta hating on Skye today. You’re really not sure of her gender? Really?

Yeah. She’s a woman. I’m pretty sure she taught figure drawing in my art school.

You’re supposed to sound like a female Darth Vader. Find your dark side. Your dark, sultry side…

If Skye has to find her ugly, she doesn’t have far to look.

NG49, 22 million jobs were created during the Clinton years. I didn’t always agree with the Big Guy, and I’m not sure how much credit he deserves, but those were the Golden Years.

I don’t think Jane Pauley would approve.

“Because of Obama … " "Because of Bush … " We all give the politicians way too much credit/blame. Probably because we don’t want to take any responsibility ourselves. America’s problems are the result of billions of decisions and choices made by millions of Americans over the course of many years. America’s accomplishments ditto. But we can’t admit that. We want villains, scapegoats, and heroes. All so we don’t have to admit that we had anything to do with it.

“Ah, Mr. Dooley, we are as the Lord made us.” “Now, Mr. Hennissy, let’s be fair. Let’s take some of the blame ourselves.” Finley Peter Dunne.

“The fate of the country does not depend on … what kind of paper you drop into the ballot-box once a year, but on what kind of man you drop from your chamber into the street every morning.” H. D. Thoreau.

Ameriquest mortgage closed all their retail offices May 2006. Citi CEO Charles Prince forced to resign November 2007 due to mortgage crisis. Citi did not turn a profit from 2007 to 2010. Bear Stearns folded March 2008. What you said was campaign tactic started by Karl Rove in October 2008, before the election, to blame Obama for the crashing stock market. You make a fine parrot.

“Businesses began to address the threat of an Obama administration well before Inauguration Day ’09. "

A little ere Obama took the Oath,The graves stood tenantless and the sheeted deadDid squeak and gibber in Washington streets:As stars with trains of fire and dews of blood,Disasters in the sun; and the moist starUpon whose influence Neptune’s empire standsWas sick almost to doomsday with eclipse…

Good one fritzoid, that’s how I remember it, “… graves stood tenantless …”.

My gay cousin’s name is Skye, but then he’s from Montana.

Those numbers sound about right. It is the middle class that creates a thriving economy. America was thriving in the 50s when the top tax bracket was 90% because working class and middle class people were able to afford homes and cars. The GI bill provided fixed rate loans that veterans could afford to pay. The GI bill also created a new educated population.