Given your penchant for drawing the White House in your strips about presidents, I thought you would like to see this article:  It brings back memories of the wall around the White House that you drew back in the Nixon days.

I can't believe Trudeau learned nothing from the '70s. All Mike and J.J. have to do is have a Pina Colada.

Is this the same B.D. who wrote a biology paper called "Our Friend the Beaver?"

The pseudo-sciences have failed to explain the success of the sciences, and as far as I can tell, Trump. For him, you need fact-based conspiracy theories.

I highly recommend The Pogo Step-Mother Goose. His characters and drawings perfectly fit Alice in Wonderland, which I increasingly see as a pretty accurate representation of humanity in action, and far from being some irrelevant children's tale. And this is after buying the massive two volume set of the original newspaper Pogo.

I remember the Pogo strip where one of the characters says, "We have met the enemy and he is us." How appropriate, especially after this last Presidential election.

I like today's strip on the pseudo-sciences. I've known for years that the dinosaurs did not go extinct due to a meteoric impact, but rather as a result of bad financial planning.

When it comes to Nicole, Mike "did not have sexual relations with that woman." He was grappling with the idea of an affair, that's all, and it was Nicole's idea that they go away together. So where does J.J. get off calling him an "adulterer"? Suddenly the mere act of thinking about adultery, of "lusting in one's heart," equals adultery? Who is she, Jimmy Carter? And, irony of ironies, we of course know that J.J.'s the one who'll eventually commit adultery.

I grew up on Walt Kelly and his collections. Mr. Trudeau is to this generation what Mr. Kelly was to his. My blessings on them both.

It isn't just Walt Kelly's poem The Prince of Pompadoodle that is spot on for Trump, the Koch brothers, and many others, but the book that contains it: The Jack Acid Society Black Book, by Pogo (as told to Walt Kelly). It parodies the John Birch Society's Blue Book and its annual White Book. A while back I wrote about it here.

I'm glad to hear Pogo quoted once again. I wish Walt Kelly was still here. I wonder what swamp critter he would have chosen to represent Trump... I'm thankful we have Doonesbury to help us stay sane.

I'm also thinking a lot about Walt Kelly these days. For me, it's his paranoid Prince of Pompadoodle that leaps to mind.

I am grateful for the BLOWBACK post about Walt Kelly, which inspired me to go and discover that reprints of practically all of his books are finally available! Where to start?

I am actually laughing out loud. That was hilarious! I'm talking about Trff: "I'd throw him out of an airplane, sir." Oh man, who knew that Trff would rise again? It just goes to show that the swamp is alive with monsters you thought were long gone. I'm reminded of a little verse by Walt Kelly, on the frontispiece of The Pogo Stepmother Goose from the 1950s, accompanied by those ink drawings of monstrous shadows as only Kelly could do:

The gentle journey jars to stop.
The drifting dream is done.
The long gone goblins loom ahead;
The deadly, that we thought were dead,
Stand waiting, every one.

Some things just stick with you. Oh, throw him out of an airplane, indeed!

Ah yes, Deputy Director Trff, the only character better suited for the position than Uncle Duke. It's as if the job description was written just for him.

The Classic strips give us an interesting look back. Everyone is fallible. But, as we know, Mike moved on more successfully. One hopes that the product of this couple will not end up like J.J.

Perhaps some immigrants are useful after all? (I had never noticed that Duke's sunglasses were effectively one-way mirrors -- spook specs.)

Perhaps some immigrants are useful after all? (I had never noticed that Duke's sunglasses were effectively one-way mirrors -- spook specs.)

  When it comes to fake news, Zonker was about 45 years ahead of his time.