Doonesbury

With a Doonesbury bonus: The deep rootsof modern conservative policy-making"None of the leading Republicans," says E. J. Dionne Jr., is willing to offer a more fundamental challenge to the party’s rightward lurch over the past decade." "Unfortunately for the Republican Party and the country, [Wisconsin Gov. Scott] Walker’s careful parsing of shape-shifting counts as one of the cerebral high points of the debate among the party’s 2016 presidential candidates."-- E. J.

The Red Rascal was the protagonist ofRed Rascal's War: A Doonesbury Book.by KenIt's funny how, in my particular Doonesbury world, most paths seem to lead back to Joanie Caucus.

DOONESBURY by G. B. Trudeau (Jan. 18) [Click to enlarge]by Gaius PubliusI wanted to point out this nice Mike Lux piece, at Huffington Post and elsewhere, because it makes an important point.

DOONESBURY by G. B. Trudeau - Monday [click to enlarge]by KenTo the best of my recollection, the last time we checked in on the Classic Doonebury reruns, it was to return to yet another critical moment in the life and times of Joanie Caucus.

Red Rascal, (self-created) mythic scourge of the TalibanWhere do future self-mythologizing CIA-intern-washout anti-Taliban fighters come from? Doonesbury's Jeff Redfern, a legend in his own mind (and on his blog, of course, which as any blogger knows is almost the same thing), is the son of Joanie Caucus and Rick Redfern.by KenAs Mr.

by KenIn this brave new world of Permanent Except-on-Sunday Doonesbury Flashbacks -- er, "Classic Doonesbury" -- there is consolation in the reality that the Doonesbury archive isn't a bad place to be stranded.

The Caucus family treeby KenI've made no secret of the fact that of all the Doonesbury characters, it seems to be Joanie Caucus who exerts the strongest pull on me, and one thing that the apparently unending world of Doonesbury weekday reruns archival flashbacks has made possible for us is to revisit the long path Joanie has traveled, from her flight from an abusive husband to the position of day-care provider for the Walden Commune on up to her coming out of retirement to join

DOONESBURY -- Way back whenDOONESBURY -- Friday, February 8, 2013Top: When last we left "historic" Joanie, she'd entered the day-care industry at Walden commune.

What's driving Mike Doonesbury to all this soul-searching?Dooonesbury, by Garry Trudeau, today [click to enlarge]by Ken"You want a good economy again?" Ian Welsh asked in a recent post.

You remember this Doonesbury strip?DOONESBURY -- Monday, Februay 4, 2013[Click to enlarge]by KenAwhile back, pursuing an earlier fit of Doonesbury nostalgia, I offered "Our own Doonesbury flashback: When Joanie Caucus joined El