Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for April 16, 2015

Lebanon is on the same sea as Italy.

The machine that’s running moves from the middle to the end in the last panel.

So is Egypt, Morocco, and a host of other nations. Your leftwing?

It was listen to this moron or get shot. She did the right thing.

You know she’d rather take a bullet, than do the “Lady and the Tramp” thing with the spaghetti!

What a waste of good spaghetti.

Must be the “no spin (cycle) zone”…

Lebanese Spaghetti

Now to answer the most pressing question: What brand of laundry detergent are they using, the bottle with the blue label?

For the love of Sam, Roland, SHUT UP!!!

today’s doonesbury reminds me of joss whedon’s home-made 2008 cult classic “dr horrible’s singalong blog”, whose opening musical number was LaundryDay. won an emmy before getting on the tube. check it out (literally) from most public libraries.

I love this arc.

NG49, Chinese with modifications

Borntalking, or others’ jokes, a handicap.

Kaffe, What makes you think Roland didn’t move her head and finish off the spaghetti? His well known sense of decency?

First-time commenter. I’m pretty sure my first exposure to Doonesbury was ‘Talkin’ ‘Bout My G-G-Generation’ but it might have been ‘Welcome to Club Scud’ or ‘Dare To Be Great, Ms. Caucus’. I was roughly 5-6 years old and didn’t understand a thing I was reading, but I had an intuitive sense of both absurdity and irony – or at least the ability to know something was intended to be funny even if I didn’t actually ‘get’ it – which, at that age, was enough. I was also drawn by how ‘real’ it was compared to the other comics I had been exposed to at that age. Long story short, I have followed Doonesbury loosely throughout my life (I am now 30), so I was delighted to discover that GoComics has the entire archive (or close to it) available for free online. It’s taken me about two weeks, but I just finished reading through the entire archive here. I hope this archive is available for many years to come. I anticipate that Mr. Trudeau will retire, as he richly deserves to after so many years, but I will miss Doonesbury immensely when it finally comes to a full stop, and archives like this will be of immense value. Thank you, Mr. Trudeau, for all your years of creativity, and thanks to GoComics for hosting the archive.

Probably self-inflicted.

Beirut used to be compared to the great cities of Europe, Paris, Rome, Madrid: romantic sidewalk cafes, great restaurants (yes, serving Italian), five-star hotels. It was struggling to regain its reputation when it became another battleground for Israel and Hezbollah. Anthony Bordain was filming an episode in Beirut for his “No Reservations” show when he and his crew were forced to evacuate.