Just so you don't have to research it: The book with metal covers that Alex is looking at in the 25-years-ago-today strip must be Sex, by Madonna. Originally $50.00, copies are now offered on eBay and Amazon for a bit more. My education continues...

A 900 number! I had quite forgotten about those. Another one of those things that a younger person wouldn't know about.

The 10-years-ago-today-strip... I've been working up to it with a lump in my throat, for the second or third time. Upside of the IED; one of the strip’s most likeable characters, and a side of B.D. I didn’t think he was capable of.

In today's Classic strip from 1989, Mark appears to have his hand up Gail's sleeve. No wonder he's looking smug!

In the strip, society seems so orderly and organized, unlike the chaos of the real world under Trump. Can I come live there please?

Roland's "Dibs on his office (after steam cleaning)" is quite an appropriate little gem considering all the boorish behavior exhibited by our "leadership," in Washington and elsewhere, that has recently come to light.

Today's Phil Slackmeyer line ("Mark, I didn't plan for this to happen...Well, yes I did.") is, for my money, one of GBT's all-time funniest.

Well, well, well. It looks like one of Sam's rivals in the holding area for American girls who wanted to marry Harry has got there.

Go, Roland! It's wonderful how much irony you can do with no sense of irony. Props to "failing cartoonist."

I see what you're doing there. A few weeks ago, Roland seemed actually to twig to Trump's crooked agenda. Now his tweets reveal what's really going on: even @realRBH can't put lipstick on a pitbull anymore. #TheTruthIsOutThere

*Spellings from R. S. Grumet, 1981

Thanks for taking us back to the Loma Prieta earthquake with this week's storyline. There have been so many disasters since, one forgets.

I love today's Persuasions video. Frank Zappa was a fan, and produced an album called "Frankly Acappella," where they performed his music!

I just turned 50 years old a few weeks ago. As an individual whose parents did not encourage television, when I was still in elementary school I found Doonesbury -- a comic I still enjoy, both in the newspaper and in the books I own. Your work is wonderful! And Uncle Duke is in the dollhouse I built and decorated on my own. Fare thee well.

I presume that Mr. Butts knows that what he's saying is right-wing Reaganite propaganda. In which case it doesn't make much sense for him to be spewing it to the one entity(?) in the world who more than anyone else knows just how true it isn't.

Good to see that GBT was (in the guise of Mr. Jay) the voice of calm rationality vis-à-vis pleasure drugs. The contrast with the blustering prohibitionist (and tobacco propagandist) Mr. Butts was (and still is) illuminating. Butts may be right in one narrow way; given that Prohibition makes pot and the rest of the pleasure drugs more available to kids than liquor, pot may actually be a "gateway" to booze.

Trump not funny? Maybe not intentionally. But pointing out his absurdities in GT's incomparable way is what many of us fans live for!

To paraphrase yesterday's Say What? Trump quote: "While in the Philippines I was forced to confront reality, which I have not done in months, and again realized how bad, and fake, it is. Loser!" Please keep punching. Looking back, via the Doonesbury Flashbacks page, anyone can see how you keep on a theme for multiple strips. It's an education in recent history.

Yesterday we saw Mr. Jay pinch out his smoking tip, but in today's strip, Duke is sucking that end...

I've looked at your old comics online; they used to be funny. Please make a new type of comic not involving Trump, because whenever I read the comics Sunday morning it's not funny anymore.