Saranac Lake’s Trudeau riffs on Palin, small towns

Cartoonist and Saranac Lake native Garry Trudeau is riffing this week on Alaska Governor Sarah Palin’s dislike for reporters and their questions.

In the strip, Zipper — a college student — is declining to answer his biology professor’s “gotcha” questions. Why?

“Asking some random questions about cell theory isn’t fair — at least where I come from!”

Where is Zipper from?

“Places like Barnwell, Beaver Falls, Lake Placid, Middlebury, Cape May and Sayre…Each one smaller than the next. It’s why I’m so real!”