Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for February 19, 2014
February 18, 2014
February 20, 2014
Transcript:
President King: By re-imagining Walden as a profit-driven institution we'll be able to shift scarce resources from instruction to marketing! However, the transition to proprietary education will be challenging, the Walden of the future is not the one that accepted all of you! Zipper: Think they'll try to buy us out? Friend: They have to. To make room for all the suckers.
A few comments, if you’ll permit me:
(1) Pretty much this entire “discussion” has been a huge troll, by the strictest definition, since GT and Doonesbury have been mentioned only in passing, and it’s the Doonesbury comment forum, after all. Obviously, “trolling,” by that definition, is not always a bad thing.
(2) McEldowney explained: “So, I objected and objected and objected as time went on and the tenor of posts became subject more and more to abuse. I wanted my work to appear as it did in the beginning, alone, without a raging public forum affixed to it. It was like looking at a work of art with the walls about it scrawled densely with graffiti.”
(3) Since his drawings are often, shall we say, sumptuous, they tend to bring out the puerile side in lots of (mostly male) commenters. Personally, I was pretty tired of that.