Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 31, 2014

He does look pretty pale.-Cornell is Zonker’s childhood friend. This strip takes place in California, while the previous strips this week were back in Walden.

Well, that’s pretty obvious, even to those of us in the UK, There must be some pretty thick people out there.

Be nice if the colorist paid some attention to the contents.

This was before spray on tan became a big deal. Zonk believes in if you can’t tone it, tan it.

Except Spicoli barley graduated high school, Zonk went to Yale.

I can actually (vaguely) remember Prop 13 and its intent to cut state spending in California. I thought it was aimed more at colleges (and it succeeded in cutting into college funding, as I recall, so that some of the best universities had to close departments down so they could ‘terminate’ otherwise tenured faculty members). But I didn’t remember that there were state funded tanning clinics. That sounds like something that the Congressional budget provides for members of Congress, not something that a state would provide for its everyday citizens…

Nah, perpetual rejuvenation would be better.Then the things you learned wouldn’t be lost in less than a hundred years.

John Boehner should give him some stiff competition.