Todays strip is brilliant. Really brilliant. Thank you.

Today's strip: Respectuful, or chicken?

The Joanie lament goes on at some length. This we know because between the third and fourth frames, the bread sack has been closed and the toast is burning.

When I moved to Salt Lake in 1976 I had to take both the liberal Salt Lake Tribune for real news, and the LDS Church owned Deseret News for one thing; Doonesbury. Thank you for all these years.

What a difference 33 years makes. Those $60 floral arrangements are nearly extortionate today. ($60 in 1982 = $150 in 2015). On Feb 14 this year I bought a dozen red roses, which were on the verge of opening, in an Alaskan grocery store, in the dead of winter. I got to pick the best roses and paid $20 and small change -- about equal to the $8 Lacey wanted to spend.

Don't ever change, Jeff.

As Jeff met with publishing success, his hair crept down the back of his neck towards an adult look. Now it's been shaved again. Up for regressive mischief?

Today's strip just reminds me how much heart Garry always has, as well as head-oriented humor.

Renewing acquaintance with Dick and Lacey is so great. When I read this series the first time, I was so much younger. Now, I'm - uhm - in the peer group, and love how GT captured the romance that still burns with age. As for an earlier BLOWBACK comment about "girls," most of my female friends and I refer to ourselves as "girlfriends." Even the ones who are ardent feminists. And we'd sure rather be called "old girls" which has a more affectionate sound than "old women," which is completely other. Thanks for Dick and Lacey; she's a great old girl!

I always enjoy Doonesbury, even though I don't follow the detailed story line enough to recall everything about the interesting characters and their relationships. I really enjoy the points you make about all kinds of issues. For example, I was very impressed a year or three ago when you made many salient points about disabled veterans, in several ways and over a long time period.

I am not sure where you are going with the latest foray, this time into birding, but so far you seem to be pretty much trashing those who do appreciate birds, in the most trite and overworked way. As a birding enthusiast and Doonesbury fan, I hope this will lead somehow to something more deserving of your really great reputation for bringing important issues to the attention of your readers.

I read an interview some years ago in which you stated that your father's advice was that life is not meant to be enjoyed, and that you just have to find a way to get through it. You have done so much more, and I am confident that you will continue in that direction.

Re MUDLINE: I have asked myself for years whether it is legal to be so stupid in public. How did these people get elected, and what does it say about the people voting for them? George Carlin had an answer to that: "Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that."

Dick and Lacey. What a wonderful romance of the ages. I always enjoyed seeing them and I've always hoped for what they had. I do miss them terribly, and am so glad to see them again.

Re GIRLS: When females refer to themselves as "girls," they are not setting a universal standard. Oddly enough, this is clearly understood when men refer to themselves as "boys."

Mr. Trudeau has devoted his career to showing us that life is one big foible.

I'm always fascinated by the "Mudline" and the "SayWhat?" quotes. In the two countries that I've lived in, Australia and Germany, any of these quotes would be enough to kill a politician's career. These sort of quotes would be a once in a year occurrence, not a daily one.

Talk about dramatic foreshadowing. Don't do it, Dick!

In today's strip reference is made to Bachman's warbler. I hope Dick got to see it. It's considered to be extinct now.

Oh dear. I remember this story arc from the first time it ran, and then I reread it in a collection, and here I am getting the tissues again to wipe away my tears for what I know will be happening -- the sweetest, most wonderful, most natural, and yet saddest moment in the strip up until then.

I expect men will stop referring to females as girls whenever females stop referring to "a night out with the girls."

I find it so wearying that Americans especially persist in referring to all human females as "girls." I'm especially disappointed to see it in Doonesbury, even though Mike is a dork; how old does a female have to be to be considered a woman?