From a Doonesbury.com daily dose, Doonesbury Flashback, Jan. 29, '06.:
Bush doesn't think about anything -- he just believes things, so he's never conflicted by reality. [Gary Trudeau's emphasis.]
Trudeau is making progress:
Hebrews 11:1 KJV Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:3 KJV Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
Hebrews 11:6 KJV But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.
Proverbs 3:5-6 KJV Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. (6) In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
But Trudeau is a bit retarded for one over 40:
"A man who is not a socialist at 20 has no heart. A man who is still a socialist at 40 has no brains." - Churchill (but originated with a French statesman, I believe)
His predecessor as America's most popular and highly accurate social commentator, Al Capp, was also a late learner.
But Capp was living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the Sixties. And the behavior of the students of America's preeminent university accelerated his education.
Capp appropriately rewarded the students whose behavior improved his worldview by featuring an inspired version of their activities in Li'l Abner. There, they were known as an activist group, "Students Wildly Indignant about Nearly Everything", usually abbreviated as "S.W.I.N.E.".
(The Harvard-inspired student activist faction is not to be confused with the excellent Storm Region real-time strategy game, also called S.W.I.N.E., which involves a highly disciplined group of actual pigs who are involved in a conflict with bunny rabbits.)
So there may be hope for Gary Trudeau. Stay tuned.
