Doonesbury

I've been a Biden watcher since the 1970s and, although my disdain for him has ebbed and flowed, my opinion of him has never gotten as high as "tolerable"-- and most of the time it was far lower. He has never been someone I would have ever considered voting for-- and still isn't. The lesser of two evils is still evil... and Joe Biden is not some minor evil, not by a long shot.

For shame, Mr. Trudeau! Really now, talk about shameless pandering!

DOONESBURY     by G. B. Trudeau [Click to enlarge.]by KenNot so long ago -- a year, maybe? -- a known history with women like The Donald's would have been, by itself, an absolute disqualifying factor in an American national political campaign. (What about JFK's now-well-known philandering, you say? Of course it was known to insiders at the time, just as The Donald's was.

With Monday update (see below)DOONESBURY     by G. B. Trudeau[Click to enlarge.]by KenIt's another travel day for me -- all the way to Mystic, CT -- why, that's practically the Massachusetts Rhode Island border! [Oops!

DOONESBURY    by G. B. Trudeau[Click to enlarge.]by KenIt's one of those quirks of Modern Life: the way right-wing racists are so gosh-darned prickly about being called racists. You'd think the solution would be obvious: just stop being so fucking racist.

Plus some quick notes on my trip to WashingtonDOONESBURY by G. B.

[Click to enlarge.]Last week the Pew Research Center released a fascinating survey of voters that doesn't just inform us that Republicans' favorite and most hated candidate is Donald Trump. This one gets down into what makes voters tick.

Trudeau only meant the question to apply to the three "amateur" candidates. But is there anyone in the GOP candidate "field" who has a plausible answer to this question?

DOONESBURY     by G. B. Trudeau[Click to enlarge.]"We're capitalists, and we have to look at what the demand is, and we have to respond to the demand."-- Steven B.

by KenAs last week's Doonesbury Classic reminded us, there was a moment there, back in 1982, when the core players were contemplating the leap from college to the real world, when it looked as if Zonk's future might lie in -- surely the least probable of the callings he's bumped up against -- um, software?MONDAY -- "Maybe you can break the kiln"Doonesbury     by G. B.