[LEMONS]


8.19.2003

Why... It's Duke

I've been reading Doonesbury since I was a little kid, although I didn't get most of it until I was in junior high. The characters in the strip are, by now, old familiar friends I look forward to seeing every day. Michael, Zonker, B.D., JJ, Mark, Boopsie, Sid, and of course Duke. Duke has always been my favorite.

If you don't read the strip, Duke began life as a Hunter S. Thompson caricature. And although he never abandoned his guns and drugs persona, he quickly moved on to be so much more. An ambassador to China, a sports medicine doctor for the Redskins, A CIA operative, and an overly-(self)medicated hostage in Iran. He hasn't been around much over the last few years, and quite frankly the character of his son just annoys me. But now he's back and in old form again, reborn as an Iraqi warlord.



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