Shouldn't some fellow patron bring Mister Covid a booster seat?

Wow, that Z&Z packs a wallop!

Re today's SayWhat?:

"They are trying to demasculate the young men in this country because they don't want people who are going to stand up. And so all you moms...if you are raising a young man, please raise them to be a monster."  -- Rep. Madison Cawthorn

Surely Cawthorn has it backwards. It's the real men who do stand up, and they stand up against the "monsters" of Cawthorn's imagining.

Of course there are still a few "buds" in the system.

What country is this? It's Texas, of course! Is it too late to undo admitting them to the Union?

Today's Sunday strip now has my vote for saddest Doonesbury ever. It's not the poignant, tear-jerking sadness of Andy's death, or the sweet sorrow of Dick Davenport's. It's not Alex's desperation when Kim leaves Mike early in their romance. It's just dry-eyed, sickening despair. What country is this?

Did Doonesbury just reveal the source of the "Q" in Q-Anon? In the 1996 Classic strip that ran on Saturday, Phred is wearing a hat featuring that infamous letter. Knowing that the "movement" stole so much from sci-fi shows and other pop-culture sources, this would not be surprising.

The Bachman's warbler has officially been declared extinct. It makes me so sad. Thanks for your part in keeping its memory alive.

Today's 25-years-ago flashback from September 28, 1976 is funny. Historically, it’s brutal. I was a college frosh and naïvely believed racism was ending.

Re the 35-years-ago-today strip: For the record, the haircut J.J. gave Mike was way better than the dorky one he had in the early years. 

Unlike the base, at least Mr. Covid speaks some truth. (Sad.)

Re today’s Say What?: Pretty early on in the pandemic I realized that the thing to do was listen to Trump and do the opposite of whatever he said.

The Flashbacks page also recently featured the 50-years-ago introduction of Boopsie (who then apparently spelled her name "Boopsy").

There's a nice synchronicity on the Flashbacks page today: the 21 September 1971 introduction of "uptight end" Zonker and the reminiscing "football star" Zonker of 21 September 2001.

I really like the "blood on his hands" depiction of Trump. Bravo, GBT!

"When you're a star....You can do anything." From admitted carnal assault to orbiting untethered by tax, billionaires do well of/by/for themselves. Like Zipper, the rest of us wish upon a star -- and need to start doing better.

Seeing the family last Sunday was just so fantastic. Clearly, we're living in the future. How did that even happen?

Let the record show that I am not a Trump supporter, regardless of what today's strip might indicate. 

I am "pleased" to "see" that you are still "bashing" former president Trump in today's strip. This means that you agree with President Biden's withdrawl from Afghanistan, the killing of hundreds maybe thousands of Afghans (and Americans), and the total, utter and complete humiliation of the United States by President Biden...

In 2016, back in Nam for the first time in 42 years, I finally understood the Domino Theory: There's a Domino's Pizza in Hanoi.