For Trudeau, road to comic fame began on York Street
This is an incredibly inspirational article and it made my day!
If QB Brian Dowling was BD, who were Mike and Zonker?
Good article (although a bit heavy on the adjectives). Also, I think the penultimate paragraph suffered some faulty editing.
Who among the current crowd will be as powerful or persuasive as those mentioned here?
Mr. Trudeau has given as much (joy, humor, insight, intelligence, political clarity, war sensitivity, altruism, sociology, psychology, law and order) to our country as Bush has stolen (although Bush is pretty much a joke all by himself).
Well-written article. It wouldn't hurt to mention that Reed Hundt was the Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission during the Clinton Admin, as a matter of context.
More to the point, Mr. Trudeau's gracious and respectful portrayal of the ordeals of Iraq War vets in the aftermath of their service is just one more instance where he has served the public and the truth well through "Doonesbury." Bravo, once again, G.B. - you, Sir, are one of the (many) reasons I came to Yale.
I'm pretty sure Trudeau's name is on the wall at Wolf's HEad.
I believe the hospital is called Walter Reed instead of Reid. Oh well, an Ivy League education can teach you only so much.
The name "Doonesbury" is a combination of the word doone (1960s prep school slang for "someone unafraid to appear foolish") and the surname of Charles Pillsbury, Trudeau's roommate at Yale University. "Doone" usually refers to someone socially clueless; it's sort of like the Yiddish "nebbish".
Funny -- that means that Bush didn't live in the Cottage. I always pegged Bush for the Cottage.