Blowback
Blowback
A clean, well-lit place to vent
Please feel free to contribute to this frequently-updated forum, which posts selected commentary on our favorite comic strip. If you'd like your critique to be posted, please note that civility, if not approbation, counts. Click here to submit a comment.
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DONORSCHOOSE.COM
Oh wow! Im so glad that you are publicizing Donorschoose.com! I teach preschool disabled children in a 'title one' school. There is no money for supplies, period. I have put up two projects on the site, both for supplies adding up to $300. Within a few months, generous donors made the projects reality! Donations do not have to be big -- most of mine have been in the $10-25 range. Please continue to make this site known to others who wish to help teachers and their students!
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A LITTLE CRAFTY
Thanks for using the strip to support DonorsChoose.Org. They help so many schools in need. And thanks to Zonker for doubling my donation to "We're A Little Crafty" in South Carolina; the teacher describes it here.
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TWITCHES
Regarding today's strip, I'm once again left to wonder how Jeff could be Ms. Joanie "Libby" Caucus's son? It's certainly not out of character, but that four scantily-clad, cowering bimbos were the only characters he could think of for women to relate to caused a few twitches.
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MATCHING FUNDS GRANT
Just want to thank you for featuring DonorsChoose.Org in the strip. Two people donated to my American History classroom in Rio Rancho, New Mexico, after reading about the matching funds grant! Thanks to you and these two fine folks, my students will have new materials that were badly needed to teach an interactive history class. I can't thank you enough for what you did for us, and for what you are undoubtedly doing for many, many students! Huzzah! :)
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THREE CHEERS
Thanks for matching my Donors Choose donation. That was so nice and very much appreciated! Three cheers for Zonker!
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MAKE A DIRECT DIFFERENCE
Wow! donorschoose.org is a great idea and a great web site. (As a geek myself, I have to say that -- I was blown away by how well-integrated, engaging and easy it is!) We must all be on the alert for ways to make a direct difference in what matters. Thank you so much for publicizing this one. Bet it will trend on Twitter thanks to Doonesbury.
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THE ZONKER CODE
Thank you so much for the DonorsChoose link and the ZONKER code. My son's gift card amount for his birthday was doubled so that I could send a card to my daughter also.
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CHICAGO TRIBUNE
The latest post at the blog Subversive Speech describes how the Chicago Tribune presented its dropping of today's strip as an act of journalistic virtue.
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THE CODE
I am pretty sure the code referred to in today's strip is "Zonker" because it's easier to spell than "Doonesberry," er, "Doonsbury".....whatever.
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THE YOUNG B.D.
I'm finding the 40 year flashbacks particularly heartbreaking/warming -- the young B.D., completely boneheaded but also strangely noble, definitely in a world of his own but not altogether a bad world. And forty years later here he is, slowly transformed by huge changes and trauma like a rock in an arctic river, into the exact same guy but with real self-knowledge and compassion. Who says nobody's writing the Great American Novel any more?
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DONORSCHOOSE
Yet another creative dimension of social advocacy leaps from the page today. Thank you for bringing donorschoose.org to a new level of visibility and remembering the needs of our public schools and our young. The future thanks you!
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NEWSPAPERS
Wait, people still read Doonesbury in newspapers? I haven't bought one of those in years.
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THE CODE
Your boys are too late! I saw the code in today's strip -- when I read it on my laptop.
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A TOAST
A toast to GBT for thinking inside the box.
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HEY, IT WORKED!
I dragged myself off the couch, dug through drawers and found an old pair of 3-D glasses. Hey, it worked! Thanks for the twist.
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PLAYBOOK
Reading today's obit of Jonathan Idema in the NY Times, and couldn't help thinking he must have taken his playbook from Duke, with a bit of the Red Rascal thrown in for good measure.
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3-D
I'm not reading a mailbag comic in 3-D! Next thing you know, the comic is gonna start talkin' when I mouse over it on my 'puter.
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MORE OFFENDED
I wonder who were more offended by Sunday's strip; Assad's supporters or Gingrich's?
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FORGOTTEN
Wow! I had forgotten that whole plot about Duke and Newt's orphanage. Which is, of course, how Duke met his son. Nice callback, and it fits so well with Gingrich's recent statements about making poor kids work as school janitors.
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THE MEDIA
Roland Hedley's treatment of Ron Paul is quite reflective of the media's treatment of Paul in general: an almost desperate insistence on dissing and dismissing him.