I can relate to today's strip. My wife asked my mother-in-law a political question recently. My mother-in law replied that she would not discuss politics. My reaction was to pick up three oranges out of the centerpiece and start juggling. 

Yikes! It's Honey! (It took me two panels to realize that.) And all I can think of is the decades-old daily strip where she tells Ambassador Duke that she's sort of running the country, and the Sunday one where she explains she didn't demolish the Great Wall. Good times.

You have done a valuable public service by drawing attention to BRI. There are BRI projects under way or in the works all over Latin America, and they are happening mostly under the radar screen.

"Colonized Tonga"? Ah, so that's where Minister Honey plans to put the three million people she wants to displace!

So well put! Just three years ago it was USA with TPP leading the way, and now...this. How far and how fast we have fallen! Climate change will be the great leveler, so we can still reclaim a leadership role if we do a better job voting and voicing. America does love an underdog story. It's now or never.

Wow. In the last strip on today's Flashbacks page ("Even revolutionaries like Chocolate Chip cookies"), Mark says "We'll have to fight to the death to make this country great again!" I would never have picked him for an early Trump supporter!

Reading Franklin Foer's eloquent recap of Paul Manafort's amoral career, I had the strange life-imitates-cartoon sense that I was actually reading Uncle Duke's bio. We all knew Duke's character was initially inspired by Hunter Thompson, but I always assumed that Duke's over-the-top pursuit of corruption and profiteering had no single real-life counterpart. Turns out it's way funnier in the comics than in real life.

Gosh, it looks like it was a lovely, early spring (45-years-ago-today) day at Walden when Roland arrived, especially considering he'll soon be introduced to the commune's "marijuana plant" in full bloom.

How sadly ironic that the joke of the 40-years-ago-today Flashback strip — Duke saying the NRA wants to bring gun sportsmanship into our once-proud schools — is the reality we now live.

"When was Rosie born? How did I miss this?
-- Jan, Vancouver, CANADA

"Were did Rosie come from?"
-- Tom Tingley, Florence, KY

"I realize we have all been distracted, but did you skip an entire pregnancy? Congratulations, Alex and Toggle!"
-- Chris, St. Augustine, FL

Wow -- Alex and Leo have a third kid already? Awesome. I remember reading when she was born (and I don't mean in the Classics series -- I mean on the original publication date). Time sure flies. 

With Sunday's strip and recent classics, we get a non-topical two-fer. The Boopsie/B.D. reprise trots out many of the usual tropes regarding grownup couples (okay - the Warren Beatty crack was "topical"). The latest Doonesbury grandchild exaggerates precocity to a new multi-syllabic, multi-word level (and okay - "wall" is topical, too). 

Try as you might, the Boopsie/B.D. relationship will never reach the soap opera heights Luke and Laura attained. 

Rosie, you rock! Today's strip takes me right back to Ellie announcing "It's a baby woman!"

Go, Rosie! Happy to make your acquaintance. I can see you're going to be special...!

I wonder if I am the only reader who sees echoes of formulaic "made-for-TV" movies in this week's Classic strips, in which the ham-fisted B.D. and the long-suffering Boopsie seek to get their relationship back on track.

I am disappointed in your strip this past Sunday where you indicated that a veteran would be willing to kill a member of Congress. This is highly immoral and does not represent the values of our servicemen and women. I have enjoyed your strip for many years but I think you hit the wrong note on this one.

Oh, oh oh! Can I be the first to say, Go Melissa! I know I'm not the only reader who wishes she was really in Washington making a difference.

Back in the day when I scraped for food, cadging cigarettes was the only source!

I am so relieved for Mike that although he could only afford to give his daughter a stolen box of paperclips for Christmas, he can still afford to smoke. Things haven't changed much in the years since the strip was first published.