Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 18, 2012
Transcript:
Danae: Hey, Lars... Can we talk to you about that "God Particle" thingy? Lars: No! And stop calling it that! Danae: Oh, sorry. Jeffrey: It's Higgs boson, Danae. Danae: Ok, so why is this such a big deal. Lars: Because the power it can generate is too dangerous and every time we've given you talking monkeys something good, you've made it into something destructive!! Danae: This is gonna be another rant about the internet, right? Jeffrey: You're not helping. Lars: It was supposed to make you smarter!!
Peabody-Martini about 12 years ago
Considering what most people do with the internet (LOL Cats, flame wars and porn) Lars does have a point.
Linguist about 12 years ago
And just look how that internet thingy turned out !
mrbribery about 12 years ago
aliens invented the Higgs boson?
thirdguy about 12 years ago
You can get porn? So I can finally stop buying Playboy? I love those articles!
cdharding about 12 years ago
Their mistake was giving it to that Gore fella…
tripwire45 about 12 years ago
How about comic strips? Did Lars give us comic strips to make us smarter? ;-)
GoodQuestion Premium Member about 12 years ago
I thought that was why they gave us television . . . ☻
Beleck3 about 12 years ago
ah Danae, one of those talking monkeys. lol.
Plods with ...™ about 12 years ago
See… It was Lars, not Al
thirdguy about 12 years ago
snerk!
William Bednar Premium Member about 12 years ago
Has science reduced the “All Powerful Deity” – better know as APD – to a: teeny, weeny, ittsy, bittsy yellow polka-dot particle? No wonder Lars is pissed! To Lars, the APD is a bald headed, dwarvish Deluvian – better know as “THE BHDD!”- oddly matching Lars’ general shape, size, and physiognomy! Isn’t intellegence wonderful?
BluePumpkin about 12 years ago
I’m heading out to Maine this Thursday! Anybody have any insights as to where to go or what to do? I’ll also be hitting up Vermont and Montreal . . .
dabugger about 12 years ago
Lars is right…..but such irony is all our undoing…..
Linguist about 12 years ago
I don’t feed the trolls, so I don’t respond to certain comments but it never ceases to amaze me how certain people can interject politics into a non-political topic. Are they that desperate for attention ? Or do they simply lack the wit and intelligence to participate in a discussion without a political agenda ?
Sillstaw about 12 years ago
Hey, Lars! What about Wikipedia?
I’m not helping the case, am I?
Nighthawks Premium Member about 12 years ago
wanna see what happens when those talking monkeys decide another group of monkeys offends them?
sonnygreen about 12 years ago
WE are one of “them”.
pawpawbear about 12 years ago
@allpostersPlease don’t feed the trolls or be one.
Can't Sleep about 12 years ago
“LOL Cats and flame wars” – isn’t that a new game show on Fox?
caller49 about 12 years ago
Never put humans and intelligent life in the same sentence look how we’ve turned out so far.
ArtisticArtemis about 12 years ago
It only makes one smarter.
One has to have a beginning place of having some smart to begin with, to improve upon.
The internet was supposed to make smart people smart enough to figure out what they need to, in time, to stop the destruction of the planet’s ability to support human life as we know it.
Are we already too late?
Did I just contract Ph+ CML because of the radioactive plume that the United States is getting from the results of the meltdown of 3 reactors in the Fukushima, Japan nuclear plant?
Does it matter? Is it enough that I might even have to ask the question, that there are cancer patients already turning up in Japan, attributable (guys, right, wrong? any data is only as good as the source, I don’t remember the particular source of that as news…) to the triple meltdown there,
isn’t that enough to SERIOUSLY question the safety of ALL nuclear plants?
Isn’t it enough that we’re turning up some SERIOUSLY questionable safety check data for us to turn them all off and literally and figuratively cool them all down and just stop risking that many millions of lives, worldwide, just for some power, when we’ve so many other alternatives.
India is freeing itself from “the grid” because the grid is refusing, nor not able due to lack of money, to get out to the rural areas. So they are using small, portable, cheap solar power!
SO COULD WE!
There is no NEED for all that POWER CONSUMPTION!
This planet is in serious trouble folks, I’m afraid it’s close to foreclosure. Time to turn off the cable, and save money for food and medicine and rent and electricity to keep the food safe and gasoline to get to a job and the grocery store and farmer’s market.
Time to tighten the belt, Earth.
Hm…
Did I digress? ;-)
rogue53 about 12 years ago
I’d always heard that motherhood was the invention of necessity.
doris sloan about 12 years ago
Made me smarter. I wised up that the news had been lying to me all of my life and continues to do so, even in the face of reality.
pcolli about 12 years ago
We heard it on the news and we saw it on TV – it must be true! I can see Russia from my house but that’s because I have an over active imagination.
Dry and Dusty Premium Member about 12 years ago
Excellent today, Wiley!
Randy B Premium Member about 12 years ago
It was silly, though, for Palin to imply that she had foreign policy exposure simply because the empty end of Russia faces Alaska, and she did say “you can actually see Russia, from land, here in Alaska.”
Rickapolis about 12 years ago
It’s made me smarter. Really!
freeholder1 about 12 years ago
Kurt Vonnegut’s ghost is having a real laugh over this story line. Once he’s done laughing, he’ll sue you for stealing his general idea of alien’s needing us to get smart but he IS laughing right now.
freeholder1 about 12 years ago
So he’s a Lartian?
Varnes about 12 years ago
freeholder1, if you haven’t noticed, Kurt has been writing reality for a few years now…Evidently God got a kick out of him and he turned the reins over to Kurt. Just look at what’s been goin’ down…There is no other explanation….
Caddy57 about 12 years ago
Listen…it wasn’t MY fault all “local” newspapers decided to “ditch” my town so now I have to come here for my “DDD” (Loose translation “Daily Dose of Danae”)
William Bednar Premium Member about 12 years ago
72 comments? Who would have thought such an inane subject would generate so much drek!