NPR tries really hard not to lean politically left or right, so it interviews people from all over the political (and economic) spectrum. And many of the interviewees are willing to put up with a few of the challenging questions that journalists with integrity throw at them as a small price to pay for the platform they’re given to sweet-talk people who otherwise wouldn’t spit on them if they were on fire.
Over the years, I’ve noticed that Trudeau only employs his ironic, satirical snark against conservative public figures, conservative issues, and conservative ideas. Never yet seen him satirize a leftist anything. Doonesbury isn’t a comic, it’s an op/ed in color.
I am constantly amazed and puzzled by commenters who insist a comic is not funny, is offensive to them, and they don’t like it. My question is, why the heck are they even reading it? There are many time many comics covering almost every taste. Why keep reading something that offends them?
These kinds of stock “bubbles” go back as far as the Tulip Mania of 1634-1637, which was based on no more than a fashion in tulips. Beware any new industry that develops its own jargon for existing terms to obfuscate its operations to prospective investors. Beware CEOs who buy yachts and overseas properties before the company shows a profit.
It’s all reruns, except for Sundays, so it’s EXACTLY what it used to be. You have changed, not the strip. You’ve probably just gotten more fed up, like everybody else has.
I was just thinking . . . a few weeks ago I found a little box set of thin paperback collections from the first few years of the strip (Kim coming to America as the last orphan out of Vietnam, BD and his frenemy Phred, Zonker and his plants, Joanie and the daycare kids…..). Those strips from the 1970’s have held on to their humor a lot longer than the story arcs I’ve been reading here.
BE THIS GUY 7 months ago
Dutchman isn’t going to lose his house because of how Mark “suckered” him in.
boniface22 7 months ago
This strip used to be funny most of the time, now it’s only funny once in a blue moon.
snsurone76 7 months ago
I wonder if Mike is listening to this broadcast.
eced52 7 months ago
As long as you’re honest about outing me for a fraud.
Troglodyte 7 months ago
To be fair, Mark’s only doing what Jim did to his investors.
zzeek 7 months ago
What goes around, comes around. But in his case he looses nothing. So much for balancing the scales.
tgg 7 months ago
Doonesbury is way beyond just funny, geez give it a break comic police.
The Wolf In Your Midst 7 months ago
You can’t criticize capitalism! All I need is one big break and I’ll be rich too!
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It’ll happen any day now!
[Unnamed Reader - 14b4ce] 7 months ago
Does George Santos still get his pension?
prrdh 7 months ago
It takes a suckerer-in to appreciate another.
Richard S Russell Premium Member 7 months ago
NPR tries really hard not to lean politically left or right, so it interviews people from all over the political (and economic) spectrum. And many of the interviewees are willing to put up with a few of the challenging questions that journalists with integrity throw at them as a small price to pay for the platform they’re given to sweet-talk people who otherwise wouldn’t spit on them if they were on fire.
zwilnik64 7 months ago
Trudeau really had his finger on the pulse of the emergent economy. Scams all the way down.
SamReeves Premium Member 7 months ago
Over the years, I’ve noticed that Trudeau only employs his ironic, satirical snark against conservative public figures, conservative issues, and conservative ideas. Never yet seen him satirize a leftist anything. Doonesbury isn’t a comic, it’s an op/ed in color.
sperry532 7 months ago
I am constantly amazed and puzzled by commenters who insist a comic is not funny, is offensive to them, and they don’t like it. My question is, why the heck are they even reading it? There are many time many comics covering almost every taste. Why keep reading something that offends them?
mistercatworks 7 months ago
These kinds of stock “bubbles” go back as far as the Tulip Mania of 1634-1637, which was based on no more than a fashion in tulips. Beware any new industry that develops its own jargon for existing terms to obfuscate its operations to prospective investors. Beware CEOs who buy yachts and overseas properties before the company shows a profit.
chaszigmund 7 months ago
It’s all reruns, except for Sundays, so it’s EXACTLY what it used to be. You have changed, not the strip. You’ve probably just gotten more fed up, like everybody else has.
PoodleGroomer 7 months ago
The strip has been decades of “The king has no clothes” and those around him are royal tailors or disparaged from telling the truth.
David Huie Green ForceIsAUsefulFiction 7 months ago
“Just so we understand each other.”
garibaldi99 Premium Member 7 months ago
Thank goodness it’s still honest, even for me, an Eisenhower Republican.
Eric S 7 months ago
Guess we won’t finish the Joanie storyline.
aerotica69 7 months ago
I was just thinking . . . a few weeks ago I found a little box set of thin paperback collections from the first few years of the strip (Kim coming to America as the last orphan out of Vietnam, BD and his frenemy Phred, Zonker and his plants, Joanie and the daycare kids…..). Those strips from the 1970’s have held on to their humor a lot longer than the story arcs I’ve been reading here.
eddi-TBH 7 months ago
This is why you never bet more than you can afford to lose. The game is rigged and it’s perfectly legal.