Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 18, 2015

The real world awaits.

The real world is for those hopeless saps who can’t handle their pharmaceuticals.

If it hasn’t been for luck and being a fictional person Zonk might be living the street life

IIRC, Zonker’s life goal was to be a permanent professional student. Graduation would ruin all that!I was getting that feeling, while working full time and taking one class a quarter, graduation a decade away… New job (less pay) and rising tuition put an end to that plan.

If the 1% would only pay their fair share (99% of everything they own) to support those with liberal arts degrees and no marketable skills, then it would be much easier to get by without having to actually work for a living.

Perhaps Zonker should talk to some of my former classmates about how ceramics is an unfailable class.

I wonder whether rp read any of the replies to her comment on Pearls Before Swine yesterday.

Zonker, why not just go for a Doctorate in Ceramics?

What’s everybody griping about???It SHOULD save Zonker from the world and the world from Zonker.A small price to pay..(And it’s not a straw man argument, you know perfectly well that some here want 100% of the 1% wealth and to kill them for the sin of wealth.)

Kill the kiln.

Where would this country be without the ex professional students that live in mom’s basement? They might even try to get into the job market. That is what college is for, to keep employable teens and 20 somethings from entering the job market. That way, the people too early to retire can work and support those that should be taking their jobs and supporting them.

Zonk, if I know then what I know now, I would break the kiln!

I would have flunked my ceramics course if I hadn’t dropped it. The prof showed up the first day and the last day, but no days in between. She set another novice and me the task of “making clay” the first day. When we finished the entire room had to be hosed down and so did we. My pots broke in the kiln, my glazes turned to powder in the kiln, and the one thing I really wanted to make turned out to be impossible.

@marzipANn“And you appear to be personally an argument for the rest being heartless and uncaring monsters; you dismiss the hungry children as mistakes made by their impoverished parents, not human beings sharing your world.”.There are several flaws in that claim.The first is that I don’t care, I’m a very caring person.The second is that I represent Republicans or the one percenters or whichever boogieman you are down on, I don’t.The third is that I claimed they were mistakes just because their parents produced them without being able or interested in providing for them a decent life. They may have, but I have not claimed they did. It is possible they intentionally produced children to live in poverty as you imply.If so, it is very sad..My point about the fact that some in the top one percent of income are obviously caring and helping the poor not just in this country but around the world is that the blanket condemnation of all of them is false — if we looked, we might find a fourth caring person in the group, Jane Fonda, maybe..

@QuiteDragonTaken from the followup from the following day:.“QI): This paragraph denotes the “liberal or conservative” part (and by stating that the conservative side is “rare”, you imply that the liberal is not, reinforcing the idea that the outliers are representative).”.“All your words. All your contradiction. ’Nuff said.”.You obviously have more straw than you know what to do with..If I am reading what you write correctly, you are claiming that the ones who think the solution to the world’s problems is to take all from the wealthy is a “liberal” idea and the ones who don’t think that crazy are all conservatives..Again, I have made no such claim, yet you keep claiming I do. I just think it is nutjobs, but if you insist on identifying the concept as liberal, that is on you, not on me..’Nuff said?or more to come?