Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 24, 2010

Every things fine, there’s nothing to see, just move along.

Gotta be ready for those vivid imaginations!

…so what part of that didn’t you understand, dad?

baslimthebegger said, “Just roll with it…”

… but wear a helmet!

Ah but that is why you HAVE TO KEEP ASKING questions. Just wait, someday Danae will actually say what her life’s ambitions are and you will have that one space to save the world!

Wouldn’t be the first time corporations have gotten involved in war, Daddy.

Nod and smile, Dad!

We married guys do that too: smile vaguely and mumble, “Yes dear….” :)

Repeat the Suburban Sanity Song after me:

Mow, mow, mow your lawn Gently down to sod Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily, Merrily Life is really odd.

Chorus: I don’t know any Mary Lee really Honey I was just singing a song oh come on you know me better than that I…

Sounds like the plot for the movie “What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?” where a Tucan spreads a virus that makes people happy, much to the horror of the government! Starred Mary Tyler Moore and George Peppard.

My favorite scene was an Ad Agency meeting trying to plan a campaign for a new Miracle Pill, and an “infected” ad man suggested they be honest and tell the absolute truth about the product. ” What can we say ?” asks the VP in charge . “Long contemplative silence….”

“Well…it’s ROUND!”

“…the corporation who actually owns the government is very upset.” haha spot on, Wiley

@marvee—It was revealed awhile back that Flo, the coffeshop owner and barkeep, was involved with Cap’n Eddie back in the day. Around the time of Woodstock to be exact. Flo and Cap’n Eddie went to the big concert and nine months later Dad was born.

And yes, she is probably fuming at Cap’n Eddie since he is generally filling Danae’s and Katy’s heads full of his nonsense.

The joys of fatherhood.

Ask a simple question and ….

Flo? And Cap’n Eddie? So they’re Danae’s grandparents?

Yikes. My mind just boggled.

Great story so far, can’t wait to see where it goes

Well, I love the last panel!

THEN DANAE COULDN’T FIND IT AND TURN IT LOOSE TOO BAD WE DONT HAVE A REAL ONE NOW TO TURN LOOSE ON THE WORLD MIGHT HELP CLEAN THING UP AT LEAST FOR A WHILE

Old Dog, don’t hear. We can shout you.

Now follow along in your books as we learn three new words in Turkish. “Coffee.” “Towel.” “Border.” May I see your passport, please?

Oh my god, If a wave of good will and cooperation spreads across the land. What will all the snarky cartoonists do now?

And, I suppose, they also own the SUPREME COURT!

This could be TRUTH, even if fiction. Ever notice how people wonder what you’re up to if you spend a lot of time smiling? Of course they worry more if you laugh maniacally. It’s been a while since I laughed maniacally, 45 minutes and 33 seconds to be exact.

Wiley: if we can’t make up stuff and present it as fact, where will the political comments go?

most fathers w/ children that age figure it’s just their imagination… but w/ danae, he should have had enough experience to know that “something odd” is up…

Sorry, Wiley. it sure looked like that was the implication. If I’m wrong, you have my most humble apologies. Perhaps I read more into it than was intended.

Hey Master Diver, I thought I was the only one who saw the movie ‘What’s So Bad About Feeling Good?’! Saw it on Tv when I was about 10. Some of the social satire went over my head. It would be interesting to see it again, and find out what I catch this time around. I’d also like to see ‘Cold Turkey’ with Dick Van Dyke. It was about a corporation paying a town to quit smoking to prove that it’s impossible. Another overlooked bit of social satire.

Of the several people here agreeing with Wiley’s usual (and never admitted) anti-corporation prejudice, I wonder if any of them are aware that they have absorbed one of the oldest Leninist lies.

In the late 19th, early 20th century the German and Russian socialists split over several issues, e.g., nationalism vs. internationalism. Another split was their attitude toward corporations–the Soviets choosing to wipe them out by outright nationalization and the National Socialists choosing to allow them to survive as obedient vassals of the centralized state.

But both ends of the Left/Right European spectrum agreed that corporations were evil. America at the time was still celebrating the accomplishments of people like Carnegie, Rockefeller, Edison, and Ford, but that didn’t last as the European ideologies began creeping into the American psyche.

As just one avenue by which European socialism came to America: Why was Heidelberg never bombed in WWII? Because of the nostalgia of a bunch of New Dealers for their “Student Prince”-style German educations. Those ideas are now so wide-spread that millions of Americans believe them without understanding their origins.

Aaawww, the innocence - I’m sure some ppl also still believe in trickle-down economics…

Ps: you do realize Wiley is likely incorporated, don’t you? So your comment is likely drivel as usual.

Stuff does trickle down from him, though, hildi.

Trickle-down was a badly chosen term for the fact that in a prosperous economy, the benefits spread to everyone, even the poorest.

Just imagine a country where the main nutritional problem of the poor is obesity. And where most of the poor have color TV, air conditioning, a car, etc. If you want to see what poverty really is, go to half the countries of the world.

As for the comments from HG and FH, notice how rarely they offer facts or logic. Tells you something.