Hi Garry. I love the strip but today's installment troubled me. Showing the assassination of the leader of a foreign country could serve to "normalize" the possibility. Because there is no critical context for the action depicted, this could further trouble Iran's leaders. There's a similar problem with Mark Tatulli's strip Lio and his frequent depictions of nuclear rockets and mushroom clouds. Neither nuclear war nor the assassination of foreign leaders are laughing matters.

We all have our reference points of sanity and Doonesbury has always been one of mine. I've been a reader from the early '70s and when Mike (and I) graduated from college in 1983, I endured many of the same job market struggles in NYC as he did. Thank you Garry, and please hang in there, because we need you now more than ever.  

It was great seeing GBT with Jane Pauley on CBS Sunday Morning again yesterday! I gotta tell you, when he read out the strip of B.D.'s grievous wounding, I got goosebumps.

Another GBT crystal ball home run with the 15-years-ago-today Flashback strip. A most sad prescient view. 

First, a salute to “Ole Guy” (below). As a 72-year-old aspiring curmudgeon myself, I identify with him as if he were my father. Like Ole Guy, I could not have made it this far and kept my sanity without the conspiratorial observations and humor of you and Colbert.

It was great to see Lacey in Sunday's strip even if she was a figment. I had been hoping for an appearance. For me, she was the last good Republican, a symbol of the old WASP upper class. I remember the day when, as she left to work on taxes and deficit spending, Dick reminded her that they were rich. The real world version was G.H.W. Bush, and Lord knows, he compromised his principles to stay in the Republican game. If Lacey's people had stayed in control of the Republican Party after 1960, I could have imagined being one. I watched the Party go evil from a prime seat in the South.  

No, no. Joanie supported Elizabeth Warren back in the day. I hope she hasn't really come to think that centrist not-making-waves is the way to beat Trump! ("The country yearns for calm, for decency, for common sense!") 

Today's Classic Doonesbury strip may be where the education of the general public about medical marijuana really got started. It was sort of vaguely known that marijuana helped with chemo side effects, but this storyline seems to have brought it to the forefront.

Thanks!! As a 94-plus year ole guy -- a true curmudgeon -- thanks for makin' me laugh every mornin'. I love you, Garry; your strip has as much to do with my longevity as anything I can think of -- except my two-plus years in Paris, my 24 years as an ex-pat in Mexico, and finally, my almost 69 years of wedded bliss with my wife Harriette! Thanks from one curmudgeon to another.

-- Emiel aka Emiliano aka ole guy 

#@*! For the first time in nearly fifty years I'm identifying with B.D. Baby ducks, baby ducks, baby ducks...

Mike and Zonk are reading the wrong letters. I've been reflecting for months on the subtle nuances in your drawings. I'm amazed you can communicate the poignancy of humanity so accurately. Thank you!

I quite agree that the deplorable "dudette" disrespectively diminishes "dudess" -- though I like a well-placed solecism as much as the next corrupter of standard usage. For instance, I once heard my daughter exclaim to her mother: "DUDE! MOM!" 

Today's strip, last panel: I love this self-referential humor. This is the best example I've seen in a long time.

Good to see in a recent Doonesbury Classic strip that Zonker is using the proper feminine form of "dude," which, ever since Mark Twain, should be "dudess." It is a deplorable solecism to use "dudette." Some dudesses are large. To squeeze them into a dimunutive like "dudette" is disrespectful.

I just realized that Joanie Caucus made her debut on 9/11 (in 1972). A positive moment to hold up against the more negative later associations with that date.

Good to see the voice of Joan Baez featured on your front page. When Dylan sang "the times they are a-changin'" who knew they'd be changin' toward the Trump era.

Poor Mr. Butts. The new kid gets all the attention, so much that Butts doesn't sleep well these days. Not only that, Butts doesn't even get a mention in his own nocturnal production. The Sunday strip is so steeped in irony that we need not fear for GBT's peace-of-mind -- his alter-ego is his sleepless stand-in. It's not ironic that various public-health protectors (FDA, NIH, Surgeon General, et al) refer to tobacco-less vape-products as a "tobacco product." Other adjectives better describe that notion. 

Re MADE ME SMILE. Thanks for your kindness to those of us who faithfully, every Saturday, followed the news from Lake Wobegon with another visit to the Vinyl Cafe. You know, if you ever visit Nelson BC, there is a record store with books and coffee that could have been the model for Dave's Record Store. Stuart McLean traveled all around Canada, to all provinces and most of the small towns, bringing Canadians together into a single culture that well could have been pen pals with that tiny town in the fold in the map. I miss them all: Stuart, Garrison, and the daily dose of Doonesbury. Thanks again for bringing Stuart back one more time!

Watching Zonker pack before Boopsie calls for help made me smile. Whenever I run into a similar situation I think of a certain character in a Stuart McLean* story. Sam, a ten year old boy, visits a fortune teller and afterwards tells his best friend Murphy that he can see the future because he’s “psycho”!

* McLean was a writer, broadcaster and storyteller who had a show on CBC Radio called “The Vinyl Café." Each show featured a story about the family of Dave, Morley, and their kids Stephanie and Sam. Dave is the owner of a record store that is the source of the show's title. Its motto: “We may not be big, but we’re small.”