Appealing though the hell-hath-no-fury image of Becca may be, why doesn't she send a lawyer?

Glad you posted "Reg Kehoe and His Marimba Queens" as today's video. On YouTube someone commented, "I'll have whatever the bass player was having."

Boy, let Becca eat up Roland quick. Please! Living in Italy I just can't wait to see a mass-media prima donna being handed a righteous spanking.

Becca! Best new character in two decades. Love her!

I hope Fox News has been watching. Roland's spin is a riot, great humor!

If it costs you every fan in the US and every newspaper client, please oh please remain true to your Muse. Draw what you see fit to draw. Caption what you see fit to caption. Anything less, and the terrorists win. I actually liked Sarah Palin from the minute McCain introduced her at the convention until the minute I realized that the GOP would never have allowed her nomination unless they were up against the first viable black candidate. Since the thunder-theft role is long gone, so is any credibility she may have once been permitted to presume. I just hope the book lives up to your hype. Oh, and B.D. sure has grown.

The public editor at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution offered an op-ed on why the Palin strips were dropped from the AJC. You can read it here.

My money's on Becca in any smackdown with that tweet-twit Roland.

The next twenty-four hours is going to be very long indeed. Hear them bangles jingle.

I read today's Doonesbury cartoon having just finished reading, The Jungle, by Upton Sinclair. While  much has changed since the early 1900s, it still led me to thinking that the American economy runs the risk of regressing toward such a scenario. People need to understand where we have been in order to comprehend the implications of unchecked/unregulated capitalism. America needs an economic model/plan that allows for the benefits of both capitalism and socialism. Such a model/plan needs a name, free of the connotations associated with either capitalism or socialism. Someone needs to release a movie version of The Jungle to help people understand where we have been and just how bad things were (and can be again) without government intervention and social safety nets. 

Thank you for reading The Rogue so that I don't have to. Your comics are all the information that I need on that subject (and more).

It's a hathos festival! Three-in-one: McGuinness, Fox, Palin, in any combination or all together. GBT, you are to be commended.

Despite all the people writing to urge distance from McGinniss's book, I'm actually finding it hilarious, both for the subtle satire embodied by Roland, but also because she just sounds like the throw-down freak I've always suspected her to be.

Re: SARAH PALIN. After reading Doonesbury off and on for 30+ years I never assumed hate towards any individual. Someone once said, "Life is a tragedy for those that feel but a comedy for those that think." Doonesbury is a 3-D living color representation (sometimes in black and white) of that statement.

TRIBULULATIONS

Satire some editors can't seem to grip
Sends us online for redacted strips.
What a sorry life for mass detailin'.
We're all high, inhalin' too much Palin.

Anyone who thinks this week's strips are about Sarah Palin and not a satirical look at the way conservative players become apologists and spin doctors are completely missing the point. Personally, I'm far more concerned that Jeff won't get his book published.

You really do hate Sarah Palin, don't you. You are calumniating her again in yesterday's strip. Blessed is Sarah when Trudeau reviles her, and persecutes her, and speaks all that is evil against her, untruly, for Jesus sake: Be glad Sarah and rejoice, for great is your reward in Heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets before you. Thank you for elevating Sarah to the company of the prophets. May you one day be so elevated yourself.

With regard to certain newspapers not running the Rogue strips: Once again people are missing the finer points of GBT's satire. If you read Roland's attempts to "re-characterize" the book quotes, you can't help but notice how outlandish they are even in their original context. The funniest part of the whole series is his attempt to re-spin the spin. Unfortunately, seeing the subtleties of satire (as well as filtering the hyperbole from both the right and the left) seems to require a level of critical thinking that the editors in question are incapable of, which in turn is preventing their readers from exercising that part of their brains as well. And so the "dumbing down of America" continues.

I enjoy Doonesbury tremendously. I think you are a brilliant humorist, and, as well, a humanist and a kind of cultural historian for our several contemporary generations of Americans. I despise Sarah Palin and her like in modern public life, and was happy to see her pilloried in the form of your evil Sarah Palin doll character. The recent strips are wonderful in several respects, not least as an illustration of the misuse of language for propaganda and manipulation of opinion, which permeates all aspects of our culture, and of course is ultimately the work of Mammon. But I wish you hadn't associated yourself, even for the purposes of satire, with Joe McGinniss. Whatever his success in unearthing authentic information, he also uses the reprehensible trick of sourcing innuendo and unverified ‘facts’ to the utterances and gossip of third parties. This kind of indirect tactic is virulent in our modern political system, employed by sleazy operators like Karl Rove to discredit perfectly respectable people. It should not be tolerated, even in service against public enemies like Palin. It is a truism that people love to think ill of other people. They will all too often interpret a fact in the worst possible light and build a house of scandal on a twig of misunderstanding.