The Stupidity Trifecta

How can the Dumbos read (or hear) Bushisms — the idiot blather from the Idiot in Chief — and live with themselves and their votes in 2000 and 2004? The Dubster's gubernatorial wins in Texas in 1994 and 1998 can be chalked up to the Texas preference for having idiots in the Governor's Mansion. However, some other Texas idiot recently torched the Governor's Mansion (vacated for renovation — including, duh, a fire-activated sprinkler system) and the current idiot, Governor Goodhair — although residing in a $1M+ loaner/rental just outside Austin — was in Stockholm winning Swedish hearts and minds (and meatballs). Governor Goodhair is fortunate, too, that he is an Aggie and has been spared having a classmate who constantly skewers Aggies like Trudeau gigs other Yalies. (Perhaps Aggies are so dumb that one might as well attack dirt.) Garry B. Trudeau (Yale '70) is brutally disdainful of both Bush 43 (Yale '68) and Bush 41 (Yale '48). His take on Poppy Bush, though, is far milder than his savaging of The Dubster. The irony in Trudeau's work is that The Dubster's own foolish babbling serves as the cartoonist's weapon of choice. If this is (fair & balanced) comic stripping down into the emptiness of The Dubster's brain, so be it.

[x Doonesbury]
By Garry B. Trudeau

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[Few aging agitators are as unreconstructed as Walden Commune Alumnus Mark Slackmeyer, and fewer still are as proud of it. Known as "Megaphone Mark" during his campus activist years, he was on the national organizing committee for the Vietnam Moritorium, and was interviewed after the massive anti-war demonstration by Dick Cavett. Adopting the on-air moniker "Marvelous Mark," Slackmeyer created a distinctive campus radio program that was influential during the Watergate period, though he was widely censured at the time for some of his editorial comments. After stints as a bricklayer, a computer operator, and a part-time bartender, Slackmeyer returned to broadcasting with a post at WBBY. Sensing there was nothing wrong in Nixon's America that wouldn't become even more deplorable in Reagan's, he chose to stay permanently and professionally mad, and went to work for National Public Radio. Activist folklore is the richer for it. Still making waves on air, he combines probing interviews with "Lite 'n' Easy Rock," for the generation that still gets down but can't catch up. Mark is the only major FM disc jockey known to have outed himself on the air. He and his life partner -- conservative commentator Chase Talbott III -- appear together on NPR's "All Things Being Equal" (not "Considered"). Update: Mark Slackmeyer's pursuit of a divorce from Chase Talbott III is complicated by the fact that their marriage was performed by an airline flight attendant in mid-flight over the Pacific. Stay tuned to "Doonesbury" for further developments.]

Copyright © 2008 Garry B. Trudeau

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