Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 08, 2013

Way to rock the snark ? I love it. Good one kiddo !

How true. And a bad habit to break. I am working on it.Kind words are a choice.

“Just don’t give me your ’do, dear.”

And on all those notes, I’m off to dream of snarky carpish harpists. ’Night, all:-)

I wish Alex would give herself a new ‘do… she’s had that one since middle school, I think.

Doctor’s oath: First do no harm. Makeover artist’s oath: First, harm no ’do.

Could not have said it better myself.

“Attitudinal” – that’s a good one, too!

@susan mewman she needs a nice fattie.

She is looking pregnant.

Reading this reminds me how basically nice and kind most characters in this strip actually are. With the exceptions of REALLY bad guys and creeps and jerks (personally, I put JJ and Zeke at the top of that category) we see them being nice to each other. Well, the Red Idiot is pretty thoughtless, but even BD has learned to be kind.

Just found a website for a new company relating to kindness http://www.kynded.com/welcome/ —it will be interesting seeing how the concept works.

I hope Alex’s babies aren’t born with little braidy things in their hair.

@diggitt I checked out that site, and while it is not all “up and running” yet, it’s an interesting and laudable concept. My local newspaper often runs letters to the editor thanking people for acts of kindness. Sometimes they were nameless strangers who appeared, helped out, then disappeared; other times they’re public figures, teachers, or others who can be identified. I think people do want wider channels for the expression of gratitude, appreciation, supportiveness, and so on. We are flooded every day with evidence of man’s inhumanity; this morning all news channels I looked at were simultaneously delving into the inhumanity of the Dorner case in California. We all need relief from that, and reinforcement of the fact that the vast majority of us really are kind and caring!

Alex’s sweetness with her grandma reminds me of my own college student, who also had to deal with a divorce in her childhood and one disappointing parent, but who has blossomed into a gracious, loving young woman who reaches out to help others (including that parent!).

The “young” among us are notoriously self-absorbed, and Alex has expressed her share of that, but her good qualities are steadily coming to the fore. Along with her unique hair.

Ah to attain such heights of compassion, forgiveness, love.I continue to work on not being snarky to watch my tone, and also reacting with aplomb to snarky when it comes my way. I like attitudinal too.

Baby bump…

Twin baby bump is cute.

The lyrics are derivative of Sean Hannity and the beat was taken from a Lee Atwater bootleg, but since you can dance to it, I’ll give your song a 75 on the rock that snark meter.

Where has DTΠ gone?

Hang in there. It took ove two years and and a inside whistle l blower to surface the Watergate coverup. Only problem is the Clintons make Nixon look like cub scout so it may take time and a run in 2016 to get the facts.

Careful there. You may have unleashed the gerbils of war. All the little conspiracy weirdos are revising their Vince Foster monologues. Of course, they may injure themselves by abruptly switching from Kenyan communist Benghazi cover-ups.

@mythreesons That is indeed sad. Let’s hope whatever’s coming next will help him find his original better self again.

@leftwingpatriot Just thinking this morning about your “sabbatical” and hoping it’s going well. Nice to “see” you again!

‘Rock the snark’?

You know, “rock the snark”. It’s next door to the Casbah.

Snark is a portmanteau of “snide” and “sarcastic”.

@wildcatherder “Snark is a portmanteau of “snide” and “sarcastic”.”

Thanks! I’d always wondered about that. And Lewis Carroll’s “The Hunting Of The Snark” was of no help, of course.

But then, why don’t we spell it “snarc”?

I love that; two incomplete sentences with a world of meaning.