The downstairs bathroom nearest my home office is dutifully equipped at all times with a compendium of comics; the offering might be This Modern World, a Zippy collection, an old Dilbert, or – the current volume – Doonesbury.
Imagine my surprise this morning when I flipped to a color strip from early 1986 that was about, of all things, raising the debt ceiling. It referred to Reagan lifting the ceiling to a then-unthinkable $1 trillion (which is enviable, considering it is now about 14.5 times that amount). Take a look at the comic to see how little has changed in 25 years.
