and along the same lines

For full size, see Doonesbury, March 5, 2006.

I've really gotten hooked on Doonesbury in the past year or so. Okay, sure, the strip practically writes itself in the current U.S. political climate, but still, Garry Trudeau has shown himself willing to take on some pretty serious topics (see, for instance, B.D. losing his leg in Iraq last year). I used to be pretty intimidated by this strip because of the enormous cast of characters, but I've slowly figured it out (with a lot of help from slate.com -- here) and now I think that as much as anything that lets the strip go in a whole bunch of directions, which keeps it really interesting.