"Doonesbury" running as a Green for Rosa DeLauro's Congressional seat

[CTyankee]

but it's really to get 1% and save the ballot space for the Green Party.http://www.newhavenindependent.org/index.php/archives/entry/green_challenger_returns_for_delauro/

Charles Pillsbury, Garry Trudeau's roommate at Yale and after whom Trudeau named "Doonesbury", can be credited with nudging DeLauro to oppose the Iraq invasion during his campaign in 2002 for the House seat.

Charlie is a good guy. While I am nonetheless voting for Rosa, the Democrat, I have always liked him and appreciate his efforts against both the Iraq and the Afghanistan wars and for single payer national health care.

[Blue_Tires]

1. interesting...had never heard of him until now...

[Ken Burch]

2. I thought Mike Doonesbury was now a Republican and lived in Seattle

n/t.

[mdmc]

4. He did vote for Obama

but supported McCain in 2000.. (Steve Forbes too),.

[CTyankee]

5. "supported"? I can't see Charlie doing either thing...

[mdmc]

3. Thanks for the post!

I thought GBT roomed with BD (Brian Downing) - the football player..

[CTyankee]

6. Actually, it's Dowling. Boy, what I wouldn't give to have another Dowling back at Yale!

I'm really sick of Yale getting the crap beaten out of them at The Game every year by Harvard.

Here's a snip about Brian Dowling and what it was like to play varsity football at Yale during that era:

What was so extraordinary about Dowling and his teammates was that somehow they managed to make football important (and even dear) at the very time American colleges were changing forever, when students were marching in the street and sleeping in. the dean's office. It was all the more amazing that this devotion to middle-American frivolity should happen in an elitist, Ivy League institution. But it did. "At a time when an understanding gap has frequently separated alumni from students, football has provided a bridge of common interest," the Yale Alumni Magazine editorialized, gratefully, in 1968. Hawks and doves could lie down together in the Yale Bowl.

[Ken Burch]

7. I've always wondered...does the real Brian Dowling actually have "B.D's" right-wing political views?

Quarterback's often are political reactionaries(remember Jack Kemp and Bart Starr, and nowaday's there's the guy Elizabeth Hasslebeck is married to, among others) but I wasn't sure if Dowling himself fit that mold.

[CTyankee]

8. Good question. I have wondered if he is piqued that Trudeau immortalized him thus.

Or if it was affectionate...

[grantcart]

10. See "Harvard beats Yale 29-29" He is not only a reactionary

he is a self admitted certifiable ass.


He admits trying to hurt players and takes pride in taking a person out of the game even though the replay shows it wasn't him.

Players comment on the game and on Trudeau's dipiction of them. Very interesting.

[grantcart]

9. Did you see HBO documentary "Harvard beats Yale 29-29"?

[CTyankee]

11. I didn't, but I had wanted to. I hear it was great! I remember that game.

I was married at the time to a Harvard man and I was taking a train from home to NYC to meet him as The Game was being shown on large screen TV at the Harvard Club. When the train ride started it looked like Harvard would lose. Then the "miracle" happened, which is why it is called what it is called, a tie characterized as a win. I got to the Harvard Club (using the "women's entrance" by the way!) and saw people standing on chairs screaming...

[grantcart]

12. Buy the dvd if you have to. It captures the whole Yale Harvard experience

with detailed interviews.

I have seen it three times- and I went to Princeton lol.

[CTyankee]

14. I have been thru the Yale Harvard experience more than any sane person would want!

My ex husband is now 78 years old and he still hasn't gotten over being a Harvard man. He was in the Hasty Pudding Club and (according to him) was in the "hairy leg chorus." Yale men were disdained for their money grubbing and Princeton men were reactionaries of the worst order. Dartmouth was where "men are men and the sheep ain't safe." Columbia has a pathetic football team (well, yes). It went on and on.

Now that I have been living in New Haven for lo, these many years, I get the Yale version of the above, but not as much. I actually enjoy the Yale presence. I live near the Bowl, which has mercifully been restored after looking like the Roman Coliseum for so long. The Game has been painful for the last few years, tho.

Do you ever journey to New Haven for Yale-Princeton games?

[mdmc]

13. Perhaps there could be a Doonesbury themed Friday trivia thread?

I would rock that..

.. thanks for the info -

[CTyankee]

15. Ah, what a great idea...actually I am considering doing it on Thursday this week

due to my concern that I'll be out of power when the hurricane effects hit us on Friday...look for it on Thursday, unless forecasts change...

[mdmc]

16. good luck this weekend

should be okay all in all..