Other than his NSFW toon in general, his characters are laughable caricatures of actual liberal or conservative positions. He puts absurd words into his political opponents mouths and creates an alternate world where, for example, Barack Obama is (as in the linked toon on this post) an evil, America-destroying monster.

I don’t find such characterizations to add to the political discussion whether it’s Garry Trudeau talking about Reagan’s lack of a brain, or Chris Muir’s talking about Obama’s lack of a conscience. It’s lame. It’s childish. It’s red, raw meat for the customers, and the fact that its served with a heaping side dish of boobies and butts just drives home the whole picture.

In a nutshell, he’s about as subtle as a Britney Spears up-skirt shot. What people find admirable in that is beyond me.

I’m no prude, but there’s a time and place for everything, and gratuitous naked chicks don’t add much to the political debate and just make it awkward when trying to discuss it rationally with, for example, my good friend who happens to be a female fundamentalist Christian who finds such drawings quite offensive.

I never agreed with Trudeau’s politics. However, in the early years, Doonesbury had a whimsical acceptance of human imperfection that won my appreciation. Sometime during the late Reagan or Bush 41 years, the whimsy changed to axe-grinding tendentiousness and I stopped reading.

IMO Muir became tendentious faster than Trudeau did. I no longer seek out Day by Day even though, on the occasions when the strip crosses my screen, I usually agree with the political attitudes therein.

Btw, I found the offhand crack about scoliosis offensive. My daughter suffered from scoliosis and spent more than three years, 23 hours a day every day (from age 10 to age 14) in a back brace. Even today she still suffers back problems. Take your ideological snarkiness, troll, and stuff it.