As part of the celebrations surrounding Doonesbury’s 40th anniversary, Garry Wills has an excellent overview of the strip in the New York Review of Books. I think Doonesbury remains a monumental accomplishment. I read it every day, and I’m continually impressed with how Trudeau skewers the issues of the day while managing a large – and organic – cast of characters.
Here’s a recent fave: http://www.doonesbury.com/strip/archive/2010/11/04
The Chicago Reader’s Ben Joravsky sums up my determination to hold my nose and vote for Quinn and Giannoulias in Illinois.
This headline pretty much wraps up my concerns about the coming election: Democrats: ‘If We’re Gonna Lose, Let’s Go Down Running Away From Every Legislative Accomplishment We’ve Made’
As the Chicago Sun-Times shares, student-loan debt is at an all-time high.
A follow-up to my letter in the Sun-Times about no-knock raids by the police: they recently raided (and trashed) the house of an 80-year-old married couple only to realize – whoops! – wrong house. Who’d have thought a jailhouse informant could lead you wrong?
At least they didn’t shoot any people or pets.