In the wake of Margaret Thatcher's death, Britons are taking "Ding Dong, The Witch is Dead" to the top of the music charts. I remember Lord Zonker leading the House of Lords in that very song!

AOWG has a nice ring to it. Maybe Nugent would front that band. They could open for NKOTB.

Angry Old White Guys is good, especially since Grumpy Old Men is already taken. And then there's Mike Huckabee's band, Capitol Offense. Freebird!

"Angry Old White Guys" is a brilliant band name. They're so ephemeral. I once believed "David Axelrod's Mustache" was the perfect band name, and now it's too late.

I'm a progressive, but even I know that Jon Voight should have been on that GOP Master Celeb list! He may not be the A-lister he once was, but the guy does have some cred left. I mean Midnight Cowboy, Catch-22, and Deliverance alone place him as a real American film icon. The guys on Sid's list aren't even be in the same room with Voight for talent.

Chuck Norris "off the charts, and not in a good way" ? You're a brave man, GBT, talkin' smack about a man who makes Sorkh Razil look like a cream puff.

Some celebrities might flip, at least for one night, if the Repubs change some policies. I could speak to Hugh Jackman down here in Sydney in exchange for some carbon emission reduction, and maybe he'll sing and dance for them.

No A-Listers? What about Clint Eastwood? That embarrassing performance with the empty chair might suggest he's losing his marbles, but the guy still has more charisma than the rest of the GOP put together.

Re MOTTO. I don't mean to horn in on your gratitude, but for most of my 54 years I always heard that that was the motto of Arkansas!

Those complaining about Sunday's strip seem to be forgetting that humor has always been one of the most effective ways to make people think seriously about racism. Think of Huckleberry Finn.

Here in Alabama our Unofficial State Motto is "Thank God for Mississippi!" They keep us at #49 or #2 on so many awful metrics.

Slavery. Wage slavery. Whatever. Just so long as we're the land of the free -- with a good work ethic. I refer fellow readers to the Pulitzer-winning Slavery By Another Name and the splendid, all-too-tellingly-subtitled Confederates In The Attic: Dispatches From The Unfinished Civil War.  In several passages, the latter delves into how undead the myth of the Happy Slave remains. Bottom line: while respectable pundits, history teachers, media outlets, and even Barack "Post-Racial" Obama turn a blind eye, a localized quasi- (or not-so-quasi) religious fervor remains squarely on the side of Tara/Scarlett/Robert E. Lee. In such a still-riven land, for prevailing kings of "comity" to wring their hands over how on Earth we can stay so polarized is downright risible; kudos to GBT for culling laughter from a touchy, taboo, still-entrenched tradition.

I usually enjoy most your strips, but yesterday's I found particularly inappropriate, offensive and unnecessary. Civil rights, slavery and racial mistreatment I do not see as appropriate to joke about. These are very sensitive issues. I showed it to my dad and he agreed. I do not support using humor as was used in this strip, and find it quite offensive. I will no longer look at Doonesbury the same way, or think of at the same standard. Sorry.

I love the efficiency. A triple play of negative stereotypes! Yesterday's strip not only depicted white Mississippians as racist, but black men as ignorant and Hispanics as in-the-field only! Good hustle, GBT. Roland's employer would be proud.

I was wondering how Mississippi's 13th Amendment SNAFU got past GBT. I should have known he would not let it go without a comment. This is about the best take I've seen on it. There's just not much funny about that situation, yet Trudeau managed to make me laugh. To commend Mississippi on rectifying their 148 years of ignominy, on paper at least, I've bought pages of stamps from the Post Office, whose offerings this month have been the Emancipation Proclamation and Rosa Parks. I intend to put those on every letter that goes to Mississippi.

Living in Australia, I hear some U.S. news but not all. I hadn't heard about Mississippi finally ratifying the 13th Amendment until today's strip. Better late than never, I suppose.

Often I wish we readers could express wonder and excitement over the strips that touch us the most, via some kind of ongoing poll. It's frustrating to not have a way to say "Wow!" Maybe the answer to just to do this. Thanks for your work!

I sure hope someone tells Zonker that firing union organizers is an unfair labor practice!

Speaking of unions, after Zonker moves to Colorado he may find this story useful.