Doctor: ‘On Behalf of Gov. Rick Perry, May I Welcome You to Your Compulsory Transvaginal Exam’
See the earlier strips from this censored series of Doonesbury, by Garry Trudeau, here at Slate.com.
Transcript:
Day: March 14, 2012
Study: Eating Red Meat Is Slow Poison
father grandfather of Peter Benchley, author of Jaws — at the Garden of Allah Hotel on the Sunset Strip in the 1930s could not stop herself from scolding Benchley about his drinking. Those martinis he was consuming by bucket load, she told him, were nothing but “slow poison.”
‘That’s okay,” Benchley replied, “I’m in no hurry.”
Having enjoyed a meat-free diet for 35 years, I admit to some fuss-budget tendencies about this issue myself. Avoiding meat is healthier for our bodies and reduces karmic burdens on the spirit. Equally as important — if millions of us stopped eating meat, the reduction in waste and pollution related to raising livestock might just save the planet.
All that said, I have no hope that this new study from Harvard will change any minds:
Zombie Clown Gingrich Vows to Stay in the GOP Clown Car – Will Deliver Nomination to Romney, No Matter What!
As the Republican primaries grind on, it becomes clearer by the day that Mitt Romney is the weakest GOP frontrunner since former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole ran against Pres. Bill Clinton, and lost, in 1996.
The comparison with Dole presents a historical paradox. One of the biggest factors that hobbled the Senate leader’s campaign in 1996 was his close association with his counterpart in the House, Speaker Newt Gingrich. While Gingrich was not on the ticket that year — Dole’s running mate was a GOP liberal, Jack Kemp — the Clinton campaign deployed a relentless barrage of television ads that tied Dole to Gingrich, who was, and remains, the most unpopular and divisive figure in American politics.
The irony lies in the fact that, in the current cycle, Gingrich is playing a role opposite to the one he played in 1996. His campaign for the nomination, which should have died before it began, is now the key factor propping up the campaign of Mitt Romney’s favor, the putative frontrunner.
In primary after primary, Gingrich has peeled off votes of the GOP’s teavangelical, neo-Confederate base from Rick Santorum, often denying Santorum a win over Romney, as he did in Ohio, or nabbing delegates that would have otherwise gone to Santorum, as he has done just about everywhere else, including in Alabama and Mississippi last night.
