Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for March 31, 2013

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    Can't Sleep  over 11 years ago

    Having spent a lot of my life as a newspaper reporter and editor, I’ll say what I always tell people: it’s in the news because it’s unusual. If it were commonplace, it wouldn’t be news.

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    Varnes  over 11 years ago

    I love Kate’s side of Wiley’s ego, We don’t see it enough…I love Kate!

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    Varnes  over 11 years ago

    Hey, she DOES like being informed, why do you think she’s tired of the “news”..Information is not their forte’….

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    Varnes  over 11 years ago
    I have learned that Mother Nature did not give men a defense against little girls….What they want they get…
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    GROG Premium Member over 11 years ago

    I know I’d be much happier if I were completely ignorant of what’s going on in the world.

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    bluskies  over 11 years ago

    Silence is golden..

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    RabbitHole  over 11 years ago

    Negative news is a ploy by the mainstream media to make everyone feel bad about themselves. The more negative news printed, the worse people feel. The worse they feel, the easier it is to “lead them to the promised land” with all the political BS on “how much better things will be” is we elect the “saviors” of the world (those backed by the media, of course – who continue the subversion).

    Now please don’t tell I overheard Danae saying the above – she will try to sue me for stealing her lines.

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    alcors3  over 11 years ago

    Will Rogers said that if you don’t read the papers you are uninformed and if you do read the papers you are misinformed. It seems to apply even more to modern media ‘news’.

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    tripwire45  over 11 years ago

    Pretty lies are still lies.

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    vwdualnomand  over 11 years ago

    politicians are good, honest people….a big HAH! not bachmann. and, the news has become biased, and involved in phone hacking…see ozzie murdock.

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    Packratjohn Premium Member over 11 years ago

    There’s a fine line, apparently, between “News” and “ENTERTAINMENT!”

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    J Short  over 11 years ago

    24 hour news channels; you got to make up something to fill space.

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    blackash2004-tree Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Yeah, sure, Omnius. All the democrats are honest and all the conservatives are corrupt…..in your fevered mind.

    We live in a swamp and the news media is just as corrupt as the two major parties and the citizenry as a whole. Someone once said “don’t believe anything you read and only half of what you see.” In today’s world of photoshop and special effects films I would amend that to don’t believe anything you haven’t experienced yourself.

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    Linda Pearson  over 11 years ago

    Way to go Wiley! One of your best right up there with “The President can not raise taxes!”

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    corzak  over 11 years ago

    ‘The politicians’ are not the problem.Follow the money.

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    gosfreikempe  over 11 years ago

    Oh, dear; NOW youve done it, Omnious. You’ve brought out the trolls… :)

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    GoodQuestion Premium Member over 11 years ago

    I think there was one decent person in government, but they were fired for nonconformaity . . . ☻

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    dennis17  over 11 years ago

    Not ONE? Not even THE ONE? Wiley was definitely in a bad mood when he drew this. I believe there are good people in government, but the majority, no. That said, deal making is the only way things get done, including the few things that we actually want done. “Fine words butter no parsnips.”

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    unca jim  over 11 years ago

    “If it bleeds, it leads” …old editors motto.

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    dennis17  over 11 years ago

    One of Kate’s problems is that she is WATCHING the news. TV is a horrible way of keeping informed. It is slick, shallow, and biased. I cannot think of a “news personality” on mainstream, cable, or public TV whose reportage I would accept at face value. The written word is much better, even in electronic form. Understand your source’s biases and shortcomings, and apply the appropriate filters. Kate would know all that, but a newspaper or laptop would be a less effective set up for her complaint.

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    bgby4884  over 11 years ago

    The shame on us is allowing the majority news media & Hollywood tell us how to vote!

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    dabugger  over 11 years ago

    Kate the wizard say an naive daddy do……as it should be!

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    Mokurai  over 11 years ago

    Is Kate’s problem that even Republicans now call themselves the Stupid Party? That their complaint is that their members tell the truth about how corrupt and nasty they are, and the rest of us have been noticing, so the solution is to lie more?

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    lakita_lover  over 11 years ago

    This is exactly why I avoid the news too. hugs Kate

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    Ernest Lemmingway  over 11 years ago

    Wiley, you just summed up my entire view of the news, government, and explained nicely why I never watch the news. Now I have to get this strip on a T-shirt so people will finally understand why I’m so bitterly cynical. Even in ignorance I feel no better; just less worse about things.

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    1148559  over 11 years ago

    Sorry, the democrats are just as sleazy and corrupt as the republicans..They are all politicians after all.

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    susan.e.a.c  over 11 years ago

    When I worked for a newspaper, a TV, it was hard to get any level of politician to tell the truth. They know what they wanted and only told the truth when they felt no one could stop them, no matter left or right. Either way, when they told the truth was the most scary part of the job, because if they really got their way… hooray for procedural rules that always interfered with them!!

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    Rickapolis  over 11 years ago

    Then there is Fox’ news’ that is not news at all, but a propaganda arm of GOP.

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    water_moon  over 11 years ago

    “First there was headline news, then MTV, then Twitter, all contributing to short atten ….. oooh, shiny!”.

    we so need thumbs’s up buttons on go comics……

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    Linguist  over 11 years ago

    A Belated HAPPY EASTER and PASSOVER to all the Non Sequiturans Hope you all had a wonderful day !And Wiley, today’s strip was spot on ! Back of the net ! Thanks for the ironic chuckle.

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    scotpeden  over 11 years ago

    Yeah, their lips were moving….Another great observation of the sad state of our affairs, that made me chuckle at myself.

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    westny77  over 11 years ago

    Hmm where is Daneau? I guess they are focusing on other family members.

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    Fuzzy Thinker Premium Member over 11 years ago

    Wiley is having a bad day. I wish for him- joy when others are generous. I read a story about a person returning a lost possession. There are good people and good things do happen, Wiley.

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    jkhandy  over 11 years ago

    Just stop watching or reading the “news” and you’ll be a much happier, peaceful person and you’ll sleep better.

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    CrouchingBruin  over 11 years ago

    Russell Peters has a really good bit on how the news media gives us a really skewed impression of other countries. For example, the impression many of us have of Middle Easterners are raving fanatics who go around blowing things up, because that’s all we see in the news. We don’t see everyday scenes of people going shopping, taking their kids to the park, etc., because that’s not newsworthy.

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    Pawyilee  over 11 years ago

    >IF< ignorance is bliss, ’tis folly to be wise.

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    Jason Case  over 11 years ago

    If only good news was reported then would there be complaints of misleading people since there is evil and bad things that happen in a fallen world.

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