Hello! I drew some fanart of Alex for you. You can see it here. The other girl in the picture is Sulla from O Human Star, it's a really good comic which you should read if you have the time. It's less than 150 pages right now and it's about love and robots.

I know exactly how Alex feels! When I received an M.A. (as the first in my extended family to graduate from college and the only one to go beyond) I was told by family that it wasn't a "real degree." When I graduated from law school a year later (M.A. and J.D. programs simultaneously as a single parent) the entire family initially had excuses not to attend the graduation, and only attended after serious coercion. It still stings after 25 years! J.J. just has to set aside the experiment in extreme narcissism for a moment and show up! C'mon!

Well, it has taken all these years but now I truly hate J.J.  Genius line, GT.

Doonesbury: Next Generation!  I love the concept, but I have a feeling we'll need to factor in GBT's willingness to do two strips. Get Sid's lawyer to amend that contract! I want to see the twins grow, and I want to see if Zonker ever ages.

I am amazed at how well you maintain a balance of the characters, but please don't break it up. It's one universe, one extended family, one story, one Doonesbury!

Fantastic idea to do a spin-off. Then the characters can visit each other in the two strips. Can't wait!

Please, please, please let the twins breastfeed! Please!

Is Gen-Z supposed to be the last generation, the generation of End Times -- as in Z, the last letter of the alphabet? How about suggesting a leap towards a new beginning with Gen-A -- the generation that will figure out how to undo the nasty beast in us, that will realize both the attitude and the technologies that will balance our relationship with the rest of nature, with a sense of renewal in sharing its resources, that will realize the human in humanity -- or at least bring it into some consummate perspective by which we may envision, empower and live by what we all share as beings over what are our differences. If not, Gen-Z is an apt bet.

Please. Alex should be nursing the twins (if possible), not giving them formula. It's better for the new arrivals physically and psychologically.

No bottlefeeding! Alex is much too savvy. She would know that "Breast is best!"

Like many, I would have expected to see Alex breastfeeding, but I guess some people aren't comfortable looking at that, and we all know Trudeau wouldn't want to upset anyone's sensibilities. Right? Then again, some people just can't breastfeed, for various medical reasons.

Not to get too crazed, but I nearly dropped when I saw Alex bottlefeeding. What's she think those new, Busty McChesty things she's been so happy about are for, anyway? Please don't cry me a river about twins. My mom was born with one breast, and managed to nurse all six of us just fine. (Okay, not all at once...)

Alex bottlefeeding? No way! As a scientist she is surely up to date with the latest data that breastfeeding is important for brain and immune system development. Not to mention much more economical for someone who is unemployed.

I hope that the Gen-X strip is real! How cool, very cool.

Bottle-feeding?! Say it ain't so! So much easier to juggle the warm noisy things when you can just uncover and feed -- no washing, sterilizing, mixing, filling, storing, retrieving, warming... while they're crying! Football carry, two at once, no problem!

Spin-off? Noooooooooooooooooooooo! Sorry, that is articulate as I can be on the subject.

"Up, up and away, in our beautiful balloon…" I love what you've done with Congress this week. While the White House is heavily rooted in some attempted reality, always looking staid and conservative (the actual, not political, definition of the word), Congress is floating up in the clouds. It's evident that Congress heeds no laws, be they Newton's or the Constitution's, Biblical or Mathematical, no, not the laws of physics or numbers. Instead they float where their hot air keeps the billowy dome inflated with whatever reality they're up to creating. Beholden not even to the laws of math, they're already up to 110% of whatever deviltry was deemed possible, and they're just getting warmed up! And so the big Dome blows wherever the strongest wind takes it; anywhere but down there where real people have to walk. "Up there… is it Smoke? Is it a Cloud? No! It's Congress!" GBT, you're a genius. Congress? Mehh… not so smart. But they get points for creativity.

Re: TO GOVERN. Let's reread Article 1, Section 8. Here's just the first bit: "The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; To borrow Money on the credit of the United States; To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes; To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States; To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures; To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States; To establish Post Offices and post Roads; To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries."

Re: TO GOVERN. The Constitution assigns duties to both the executive branch and the legislative branch to govern the USA. Yesterday's strip is a bullseye. The Republicans are determined to prove Mitch McConnell correct and deny Barrack Obama another term in the White House, LOL.

Today's strip is a classic, and I hope it's saved for posterity. President Obama will go down in history as one of our best presidents, and the invented, hateful, envious comments against him will look even more foolish than they do now.