Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for October 08, 2014

Uh, wouldn’t that be above their pay grade?

Um, and stay away from elevators, OK? And cameras….

And if you could tone down the senseless beating of women? That would be great….

And if you don’t, you’ll be thrown to the lions, and tigers, and bears. Oh my!

Ham ?!?!, and I only get fish ! I am calling the union rep.

The 2 guys on the left are more concerned with their gross earnings, the next guy seems to have picked up a sponsor and the guy on the right just gets a percentage of the net.

The look like they are already dressed… For wedded bliss!

‘And don’t abuse the animals, you know how the goddess Peta dislikes that. She is having a hard enough time to stop people from calling her Peter.’

And no hitting, and gouging and … uh, hang on, you’re gladiators, right?

FAKE ! FAKE ! FAKE ! We want blood ! We want blood !

P.R. problems? What the heck does Puerto Rico have to do with anything?

Things have died down for the NFL as they knew it would. Goodell’s job is safe and the people can get their Sunday fix of vicarious violence. For all the millions of words flying around at the time the elevator tape emerged, the conversation never got around to the fact that football is a glorification, a celebration of violence and whether that’s a healthy thing in a society. Is it a good thing for people to have that outlet as a ventilator to the rage that builds in them during the course of a frustrating week doing unrewarding work for pointy-haired bosses and being in unhappy marriages and “the heartache, and the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to” as Hamlet so sagely put it? Or is it a toxic, unhealthy sign of an immature population who hasn’t yet learned to deal with their feelings in a more appropriate way? Not for me to say though I have my opinions, one of them which is that it’s an important topic of conversation and one that I didn’t hear discussed. Of course as the harm that football players suffer from brain injuries comes into the open, if enough parents don’t allow their little ones to participate…….you can finish that thought yourself. But if football does slowly contract, will our society be better or worse off?

I don’t think they have any more home life after this.

Oh how warming, sanguine pleasures. Sporting at its ugliest.

No one condones the battering of women or anyone else, but it is disturbing that your workplace can control your home life. What if your workplace decides that teaching religion to your children is evil – many folks believe that now. What if that religion is peace oriented or what if the religion is violence oriented or tends toward witchery or is anti-science. I certainly understand the intent, but the long term unintended consequences can result in controls that we might not like.

All the papers around here print the comics in colour. They “solved” printing costs by decreasing the number of comics. “We have one editorial comic in the comics section (Doonesbury). We don’t need to keep Non Sequitur too.” I wish they had kept Non Sequitur and got rid of Doonesbury. sigh

Guy with the net with typical jock answer…“duhhh Okay.”

The guy with the speared ham also looks like he’s wearing a British safari hat. A bit of time travel, maybe?

Well said, StCleve72. Football and its associated rituals are just modernized tribalism. I don’t get my self-esteem from what someone else does, but from what I do. I would hope that society has better, more useful things to do. We need more cooperation and less conflict.

StCleve72: Blasphemy! You are preaching against the state religion of Texas! The fact that you are right is no defense.

“Wiley. you draw the dailies in black and white and then some one else comes along and colours them.”Today’s Tampa Bay Times (the St. Petersburg paper) shows “Non Sequitur” in the same colors as GoComics, though the background in the former tends to be more gray and less blue than in GoComics. The few comics on the back-to-back page, however, are not colored. The guys in the middle of the arena have the same color of clothing, including the guy in the mauve skirt.

Where’s Danae ??

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