RIP, David Halberstam, Part deux

I forgot about these at the time he died.
http://doonesbury.com/strip/halberstam.html

 

Thanks for posting that.

Doonesbury at its best -- witty, incisive, complimentary and deprecatory all at the same time.

Good stuff.

 

"Utterly without cream and sugar," still cracks me up.

 

I remembered, and am still fond of, "The man misses nothing. Hello?"

"His voice crackled over the line; gruff, assured."

 

Wow.

 

I'd forgotten them as well until I found them this morning.

That Trudeau has been so good for so long - as satirist, humorist, journalist, dramatist, gadfly, muckraker, artist, cultural conscience and comic ghost in the American machine - isn't noted often enough. A really remarkable talent and irreplaceable.

 

After Fenian first mentioned the Redfern cartoons, I went digging through the thousands of boxes on the basement looking for my Doonesbury books...realizing now I probably had no freakin clue what they were about back then.

I get it now. Awesome.

 

Very nice, Ragu. Extremely nice. Extraordinarily nice on a scale of niceness virtually unsurpassed in a century where niceness was in short supply...he thought.

 

All I can tell y'all is that I met Mr. Halberstam once, at The Grove, doing a college football weekend in Oxpatch with my dad visiting from out of town.

He was gracious, kind, funny, witty.

And dude had a handshake that let you know he could kick some ass if the situation dictated as such.

One of the best. Ever. We lost a giant there, boys and girls.

RIP, Mr. Halberstam. And God bless your extended family and friends.

 

JM--
That was my impression of him the few times I met him.
He was a BIG guy, utterly big, toally without small.
(You can't stop once you've started.)