Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for June 19, 2016

Be sure to check the floor of the stall to make sure there are no mirrors – they just may be checking.

And watch for the closet Greensboro boys with wide stances!

I guess I’m not forward thinking enough to understand 5 pairs of underwear for 2 days.

Being held to the make-believe of another is the fundamental transaction behind all terroreism.

He must live where I live……..Reality….

And away wee go.

“Tripped up by a tangle of superstition and hatred”

So if I hold a different position than you, I must be filled with “superstition and hatred,” eh?

Talk about escalation. Sheesh!

“What happened to North Carolina? At the beginning of this century, it looked like a state poised to set a good example of forward, scientific thinking for the entire South, now it’s like a Lester Maddox wet dream.” NASCAR has been there awhile, and maybe if the people look at some issue, the people won’t notice the meth, weed and moonshine businesses. Also, Franklin Graham moved the Billy Graham Crusade moved to Boone NC, near the only two Baptist Naturist Retreats(Southern Baptist nudie camps) I knew of between Florida and Delaware. It is kind of cute that Billy Graham himself converted from Presbyterian to Southern Baptist. Those retreats are closed now. I’m not saying Billy Graham wanted to get in on some of that hot Southern Baptist Nudie Action, but the timing of his conversion is…curious. Asheville NC is somewhat near Boone NC, and Anderson Cooper’s family built the Biltmore estate. So I guess all those tech companies in Research Triangle, and two major banks, may have to move out of North Carolina in order not to scare off business.

Use the bathroom that matches your genitalia. Or use the hotel bathroom where no one cares.

And always carry your passport, just in case you need it to get back into the United States.

It was “3”, not “5”… and wouldn’t you need one to travel home with?

Yes, it must be crazy to have a law to get people to behave rationally. But men who hallucinate that they are women, not crazy at all. Nope. Nothing to see here. Move along.

This artist just lost my loyalty. Making fun of good people doing the right thing may be politically correct, but it is a fool’s errand. Three cheers for North Carolina doing the right thing!

In my experience, the question that each one of us must ask ourselves is: did we choose our own sexual orientation?. Was it a choice? In thinking about this we can also ask ourselves: did we choose our eye color, height, country of birth, skin color, shape of our ears, pitch of our voice, parents’ religion, etc? Perhaps answering that question(s) will lead to greater understanding, empathy, and tolerance.

I have no problem at all with what NC did. I applaud them for it. If you are male you go to the men’s room, female to the women’s room. If you don’t like what you were born to be, worry about it on your own time in your own space. 9 or 10 year old little girls should not have to deal up close and personal with screwed up men who don’t like what they are.

We ain’t had no religion throwed in heah yet. Who was the naked young man who fled from Jesus when the Romans showed up to arrest Jesus? And what was he doing naked anyway? MK 51, 52.

I wish the cartoonist and the commentators would actually read the law. It only applied to gov. buildings and not private businesses. The intent was to prevent abuse by allowing someone to “feel like the opposite sex” and utilize the bathroom. People that looked and acted like the opposite sex had been using the restroom stall of choice for years but as usual, government had to get involved via a transgender law in Charlotte. If someone truly looks and acts like their chosen not birth sex and uses a stall no one would say anything. We in NC are not as backward as you would like to indicate. The traveler in the cartoon would have no problem unless he wanted to identify as a woman and enter the women’s restroom. I don’t think he would be mistaken for a woman like a true transgender.

OH, religion. Happy that I am heathen, pagan, non-believer etc, etc.

I’ll be glad when the rest of the country gets over this nonsense of men in the woman’s restrooms. It is such an idiotic argument. Not really worth all the bruhaha it has created.

Is there a birth certificate that says ‘transgender’?

From the movie “Don’t mess with Zohof”, by Adam Sandler (A surprisingly good, maybe even great movie…Either way it’s very funny..)….He’s strong in the film…………Somebody asks him if he’s bionic..He replies. “No, I just like the ladies..!”….

In my city they have spent millions of dollars putting in sidewalks with ramps in case a handicapped person wants to roll down a busy street. Never seen any one use them but hey it is only money. Taxes aren’t too high are they? Same goes with those three undecided people that live in the area that don’t know which way to swing. Just have the good old tax payer build a third bathroom in every business in the area or pass a law that all bathrooms are unisex so we can move on. I really don’t want to explain to my three year old granddaughter why a man dressed as a woman is in the girls bathroom. Maybe she won’t notice. Right!

More cleverly Jacobin than Doonesbury but left in the dust by Mallard

You cannot fix stupid, neither can you legislate intelligence.

And what’s going to happen when this bearded woman goes to the women’s room in Greensboro?http://tinyurl.com/jtbn2xf

I am personally sick of reading comics that have a social and political agenda. Put them on the editorial page and out of the comic sections.

“Love thy neighbor as thyself.”

so what am I supposed to do with someone who today feels masculine and tomorrow feels feminine?Solution: If you stand up to urinate use the mens room, if you sit down to urinate use the ladies room

Gee, almost was lost amid all the obstructionist advertising I found the comment place.So we have to contend with the anachronistic rules of past prejudices and other illogic times.

This issue has underlined the fact that there are just as many intolerant progressives as there are intolerant conservatives.

One word: Art Pope (well, technically two). He’s the millionaire grocery chain owner who, after citizen’s united, poured millions into local NC races against unsuspecting Democrats to forge a complete GOP takeover of the state. In most cases I believe that people deserve their government but this particular situation might be the exception. And now the state has been gerrymandered to insure that it will remain that way for a long time. Sad for the people but we’ll see what happens.

The way I heard it was “North Carolina: All the ignorance of Mississippi and all the arrogance of Texas, together in one state.”

From the movie “Don’t mess with Zohof”, by Adam Sandler (A surprisingly good, maybe even great movie…Either way it’s very funny..)….He’s strong in the film…………Somebody asks him if he’s bionic..He replies. “No, I just like the ladies..!”….

Someday, we’ll look back at this controversy and cry.

Ever notice how many of these laws about sexual incorrectness (for lack of a better term) seem to originate with legislators who are later found to be pretty incorrect themselves? Y’know, like Larry “Wide Stance” Craig, or Dennis “Intimate Massage” Hastert, or Mark “Text Me, Underaged Page” Foley, or Newt “I’m Almost Single (My Wife’s Almost Dead)” Gingrich? I’ve come to believe that when a politician is frothing at the mouth about something like this, it’s a cry for help: “Only by outlawing this can I keep myself from doing it! Please help!”

Night-Gaunt49: Underwear does come in pairs, being a form of pants, which also comes in pairs.

The bigger bigots seem to be those posting here, make the Carolina folks look progressive in comparison. Haters sure gotta hate.

Why do a political strip again? All you’re doing is alienating half of your audience.

They have 2 places to go, one with a door that locks for women and the rest of the world for the men…..

I am so tired of being preached to in the comics. Another strip not to read that I can add to the Fusco brothers. I am getting so much free time anymore.

ALL of this misses the point… The bathroom part is ONE section of HB2, there are 4 others. The bathroom part is just to stir up the dust and keep everyone from seeing the darker true purpose beneath… Section 2 removes the ability of NC employees to sue for discrimination in the workplace based upon age, gender, race, religion, disability, etc in state courts. You can still sue in Federal court but it is MUCH more expensive, lengthy and difficult. Section 3 removes the power off towns and municipalities to enact wage laws, or to exclude contractors bidding on contracts for violations of workplace law or discrimination. 4&5 knit the whole thing together and enact several clauses making the whole thing more difficult to repeal. HB2 was passed in 30 minutes without discussion or ANY public debate in special Saturday session, which the NC Democrats walked out off in protest. HB2 is a gift to wealth business owning politicians and their wealthy business owning donors!! Do a search on “how hb2 effects those who are not LGBT” !!!

“What happened to NC?” Same thing that could happen anywhere… NC is two worlds the rural and the urban… When SSM was made legal the backlash in the country put the conservatives in charge. They then gerrymandered the state and appointed cronies to all crucial offices, made it illegal to mention climate change in official documents, drastically cut funding to public education and gave tax dollars to private schools, attacked the state university system including stacking the UNC board of governors and appointing Margret Spelling, legalized fracking and made it illegal for towns to pass ordinances forbidding fracking… the list is endless… The total damage done here will take decades to repair.

It’s simple…if you’re a man, use the men’s roo. If you’re a female use the ladie’s room. Xx= female. XY=male. That’s science. The rest is just made up. Not it’s not hate. Why can’t you see that without trying to bully people into believing something that’s made up.

Goodbye to what has become a really stupid strip. Finally deleting.

What? They accept copies?

“Depends on what you mean by that. How am I “escalating” anything. If backing someone like Trump a good thing to you or not? Please tell us why.”

Sounds like an essay question in high school.

As Zz9pza said, I didn’t mention Trump at all. It seems like you brought him up out of left field because, — I don’t know, — you like to get into it with his supporters. However, I’m not going to go there

I will explain “escalation” per your request. Let me tell you how disagreement works in polite (read mature) company.

If one is presented with a viewpoint that differs with his own, that’s an opportunity to consider what’s being said and formulate a logical, well thought out response. That leaves room for me to read what you wrote and consider if I have a flaw in my position, or tell you why your answer is incorrect.

Resorting to knee-jerk name calling (eg. “superstitious and hatred”) is usually the go-to for people without a logical argument. It precludes any discussion and is insulting as well. That’s what I mean by escalation. Kapish?

So I guess you agree that Rush, Hannity, Levin et al also don’t have logical arguments. Once Rush was at least occasionally funny. Now it’s the same old, same old.

I did accidentally go into an empty women’s restroom in Winston-Salem. Fortunately, it was before it was a crime.

You don’t need a birth certificate to go to the bathroomd in NC. If you have the equipment of a man you go to the mens room, if not then to the ladies room. ITs that simple.

Watch out for the Potty Police!

I’m just amused by the fact the same mentality fearful of going to the john is quite content to give guns to nuts who shoot up prayer services, movie theaters, nightclubs, or schools. OMG! Guns are UNISEX! BAN ’EM!!

Daswaff: excellent point on all the other folks the bill screws over.

This one is going, going, GONE! That’s a Home Run Wiley!

Just now read this strip (8:45 pm EDT) and my first thought was, “What, only 100 comments? Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!?!?”

You should have said Raleigh, NC where the governor lives. Greensboro had nothing to do with any of that. We’re not all in the dark ages in NC.

If you are a man and dress like a woman, no problem. No one has ever noticed if you use a stall. If you are a woman and try to pee in a urinal, the game will be up. As ever, use a stall and nobody will be any the wiser. Just don’t go bragging about it or pretending you are “protected.”

The restaurant Urbo in NY came up with the answer YEARS ago. One hallway, one dozen individual bathrooms, each with one seat (kinda like home, eh?) No markings on any door other than “rest room.” No one complains, no one makes any dumb remarks. You select an open one, do your business, wash up and leave. Problem solved!

Believe it or not, there are quite a few of us North Carolinians that are not happy with that bill. It’s amazing what a legislative knee-jerk reaction can do

And we have to deal with both the decision and the fallout from said reaction.

I may move to Virginia.

Please remember that NOT ALL citizens of the Tar Heel state are not represented by our state legislature!!!

I have no idea. This little Tar Heel may move to Virginia or Vermont.

usafmsgtNo, they are not on birth certificates because they don’t manifest until age 2, and society forces a closet until much later age and wealth..Where is Harry Golden when we need him? His Golden Integration Plans in the ’60s did much to dull the effect of racism and similar plans could combat sexism. Maybe his threat to form the Jewish Society for the Preservation of the Christian Ethic might help.

I’ve heard it was gerrymandering.

Wouldn’t need that birth certificate if you had a law making it mandatory for all citizens to wear a badge declaring their gender orientation. Call the President. He can probably issue an Executive Fiat to get it done.If not, I’m sure there is an Agency or Commission somewhere that can add it to their regulations with the proper incentives.

I’ve heard it was gerrymandering.I’m still trying to figure out how they gerrymandered the governor and both U.S. senators.

As the sign said when I drove into the state in 1971, “Welcome to North Carolina – Home of the United Klans” Things ain’t changed much since them.

Southern Hospitality, North Carolina styleNo HomosNo MuslimsNo RefugeesNo ImmigrantsNo HispanicsNo ShoesNo ShirtNo Service

I’ve lived in NC all my life and I’ve never had to produce a birth certificate to use the restroom. All we are trying to do is keep men out of the girls’ restrooms to keep the girls safe.