Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 30, 2016

The tie can reduce blood flow to the brain.

Here in the usa there is a woman with two heads.

It would be interesting to know if the two heads agree politically.

Hmm, exactly the relationship I had with my older brother, well other than he used me for a punching bag as kids, until they sent him off for the nuns to beate the crud out him. ONLY made him worse. Yep, he was a strong righty, and would have loved Trump!

The answer is obvious! Joe got glasses; so he can see things clearly now.

I wonder if Wiley has a brother & similar differences?

My sister & I are the same way.

I find it amazing that people (as highlighted both by this cartoon and often by the comments on ANY website) think disagreeing is bad. I suspect the world would be a drab, sad place if everyone liked what everyone else liked. Without a marketplace of ideas we can’t grow as a society. I have never understood the notion that a difference of opinion means you can’t be close.

All of you are wrong. Period. Simple as that. Surely you all can agree on that.

>>>How does one compromise with someone who wants to destroy you?

This is the weakness of the Liberal viewpoint, and democratic societies in general: If you start with the progressive, open-minded idea that “Each person has their own perspective and may have a valid point”, then you have to accept the validity of people who disagree with you, or with open-mindedness, or with the very concept of democracy; and therefore you allow people in your society to actively destroy that same society. Whether religious fanatics who want everything to run according to one of various old books (or even one particular translation of some old book, which may or may not say the same thing as that old book), or people who think they are “conservative” because they want things to stay the way they remember them (that is, the way they think they remember them, when they were kids and didn’t know what was really going on, and maybe it was wartime, and that’s not the way things were a few years earlier or a few hundred miles in either direction, and besides their parents told them what to think), or people who won’t accept that technology has already changed society in ways that will never change back, the “open” society has to accept and allow people to keep trying to “close” it.

Any less-liberal point of view is by nature much stronger, in that it is absolutely sure of its own correctness, and need not waste time or effort considering other viewpoints.

My two sons are exactly like that.

More and more, it is looking like political preferences have genetic underpinnings. This means trying to change people’s opinions won’t work very well.

I know how Bob went wrong. He became a lawyer !

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As the signs say, at the entrances to Harvard and Yale Law Schools:

Moralitatis deserit omnes qui ingredieris huc.

This could be Dallas & Brad Woodhouse from North Carolina.

Sometime in the 1930’s or 1940’s, ‘Grin and Bear It,’ by comic artist George Lichty, depicted Senator Snort – his favorite blusterer – saying, “I admit this new bill is too complicated to understand. We’ll just have to pass it to find out how it works…?”

(Grin and Bear it, p 97, George Lichty, c.1956)

A lot more recently, Nancy Pelosi famously said of ObamaCare, “There is so much in this bill, we have to pass it to see what’s in it.” Or words to that effect.

Washington has changed so little since the 1930’s that even the old comics prove to be future predictors.

Liberal: “Faster! Faster!”Conservative: “Slow down and stop!”Reactionary: “Go back! Go back!”

Many of today’s conservatives are actually reactionaries who want to go back to 1953, 1903, or even 1853.

Held my nose and voted for Trump to avoid a liberal supreme court for the next two generations!

That inane ’you’re wrong, am right’. Never works.

This is the tale of my sister and I. I think it’s a result of paths taken and not taken.

First see your shrink, you’re talking to the ghost of tricky Dicky Nixon. A more typical Republican you cannot find.

" Well the one on the right is on the left,and the one in the middle is on right,and the guy in the rear…is a Methodist"sung by Johnny Cash in 1966

I think it’s normal. Me, my sister, and my brother couldn’t be more opposite in every way even though we were raised in the same house by the same parents. Shows you the power of personality.

Why do then need to resolve anything? Aren’t people allowed their own thoughts and opinions anymore?

Altruism is not a sin, neither is seeking rational compromise based on facts and need. When Democrats refuse to analyze the truths, or think things through, then ACT, they are no longer “liberal”. When your entire persona and lifelong actions show brutality toward others, not merely safe narcissism in the corner, looking in the pond, you’re not a “conservative” either.

When that brother noted in my first post came up next to me after I got back from ‘Nam and was finally sleeping, and popped a paper bag next to my head, I woke to find I’d kicked him clear across the room, through a door, broke six of his ribs, his collar bone, and fractured his skull with a mild concussion. In the ER later, he confessed he’d finally learned not to “mess with” his little brother.

Nam and war made me more considerate of life and others, and more “liberal” and willing to seek non-violent solutions. It didn’t mean I wasn’t capable of violence, even extreme violence, it meant I’d learned that violence isn’t the ultimate solution to survival. Peace and cooperation is the key to survival.

Trump and his followers are incapable of understanding that.

Where’d they go wrong? It’s obvious if you look at the bar: Joe’s drinking cheap domestic mass-market corporate swill beer, and his brother (does he have a name?) is drinking a gin-based cocktail with a slice of lime. They need to take a lesson from Cap’n Eddie and switch to bourbon.

Can we all say the word “pragmatist”? See what’s possible and aim that-a-way, not bang our heads against an unchanging stupidity which has become our political system.

I became a humanist.

My siblings were indoctrinated into religion.

This is the American version of bipartisanship.

Enough with the politics already. We are already inundated with it all over the place. Please go back to the humor.

Ties that bind and Gag!!!

It was pretty simple for me. I was a pretty loyal conservative; believed in free enterprise, strong defense, and the right to life. Then some angry white men showed up at our party HQ and asked “What’s this spic doing here?” And just like that, I went over to the Democrats. I plan to stay as long as it takes for the GOP to free themselves of the Kremlin’s influence and come back to their damn senses, if ever that happens.

My god you hypocrites don’t get it. Read your own words. You claim to be so progressive and honor other people’s opinions. Then attack them if they don’t agree with you. Democrats are now the Republicans of the 70’s and early 80’s.