{"id":1043,"date":"2003-03-26T03:01:23","date_gmt":"2003-03-26T19:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/26\/al-qaeda-type\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T08:41:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:41:49","slug":"al-qaeda-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/03\/26\/al-qaeda-type\/","title":{"rendered":"Al-Qaeda type?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:15029,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.doonesbury.com\\\/strip\\\/dailydose\\\/index.cfm?uc_full_date=20030326&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20030410085412\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.doonesbury.com:80\\\/strip\\\/dailydose\\\/index.cfm?uc_full_date=20030326&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-13 12:08:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-08 02:14:57&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 12:01:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-14 12:01:52&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.doonesbury.com\/strip\/dailydose\/index.cfm?uc_full_date=20030326\" title=\"Doonesbury 3\/26\/03\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hell, I've had Al-Qaeda-type girlfriends!\" src=\"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/graphics\/2003\/03\/graphics\/girlfriends.gif\" width=\"145\" height=\"189\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gary Trudeau has been doing this for <em>years<\/em> and he can still <a href=\"http:\/\/www.doonesbury.com\/strip\/dailydose\/index.cfm?uc_full_date=20030326\" title=\"Doonesbury 3\/26\/03\">make me laugh<\/a> with his take on situations.<\/p>\n<p>While I wasn&#8217;t really around for much of the Vietnam era (being born in &#8217;73, I was techically &#8220;around&#8221; for some of it, but I can&#8217;t say that my memories of the time are all too clear), many of my impressions of those years stem from the hours I spent as a kid devouring my dad&#8217;s collection of Doonesbury books. Trudeau, along with Breathed (until his retirement), has continued to give me many laughs through the years as I&#8217;ve grown and kept reading. That pefect blend of cynicism, satire, and a keen eye for seeing the humor amidst the tragedy is all too rare. It&#8217;s harder for me to keep up with him these days, as I tend to eschew print media for the web, and don&#8217;t always remember to check in to his site daily, but I do try to keep an eye on what he&#8217;s doing when I remember.<\/p>\n<p>He hasn&#8217;t let me down yet &#8212; here&#8217;s hoping he&#8217;s got many years worth of cartoons still in him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Trudeau has been doing this for <em>years<\/em> and he can still make me laugh with his take on situations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2043,2042],"tags":[6,14],"class_list":["post-1043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal","category-politics","tag-humor","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}