Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 09, 2010

I like how the cat just sits on his shoulder like a parrot.

Ever-hopeful Eddie must be smoking some strange stuff in his pipe!

Try a reverse cycle flow-thru hull.

Gimme Gimme oh ahem. Getting the water in works ok, but it just won’t flow through and back out again.

I think it’s time to abandon that particular ship, Captain Eddy.

Wait a sec.. Flow thru? As in teabag? The theory doesn’t work, so the party’s over?

Am I reading political commentary into a silly strip?

^There is always political commentary in this strip. This one is pretty blatant.

^^Grog, are you saying we should abandon this particular country? That’s the ship Wiley is talking about.

A programmer sent his girlfriend a coded message to test her love, but I think that was ASCIIng too much.

Looks like the Flow-Thru Hull Theory works about as well as Keynes’ General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money.

So why do we keep following this theory which sinks the economy on a regular basis?

Flow thru = trickle down = doesn’t work =keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.

He should get a subsidy. Every one else in the US gets one.

RussellNash, some people have a knack for finding political commentary in a comic strip - even when it’s not there, some people can’t make a comment without making some sort of political wisecrack.

Me, all I was talking about was a boat.

Trickle down.

The fallacy of applying Einstein’s definition of insanity – keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results – to dealing with a national economy is that you never are doing the same thing twice. Circumstances always change, including those that you forgot to consider before that turned out to be crucial.

Microeconomics – the theory of economic behavior of the individual, the household, the business firm – has been established for well over a century, with only minor tweaks and refinements since. It works magnificently, and no one has a problem with it. Macroeconomics – the theory of economic behavior of a nation as a whole – has never been more than an ad hoc work in progress, made up and made over as needed to respond to the latest problem.

That’s why macroeconomic theories – Marxism, socialism, Keynesianism, monetarism, trickle-down plutocracy – never die: you can always point to at least one instance where your pet theory really did work, so just maybe it’ll work again, if you just ignore the times when it didn’t. We economists are an optimistic bunch at heart.

Flow thru hull theory, it is not rocket science. It does sound like the drive system in the “Hunt for Red October”. Hum, Sean Connery as Cpt’n Eddie.

You just can’t trust logic.

Economics 101 - Classical economic theory is based on a set of assumptions all of which are demonstrably wrong. The theory should work, sort of, if you assume that actual behavior averages close to the ideal behavior - a concept sometimes known as the wisdom of the mob.

A relatively new field, behavioral economics, however, postulates that humans make consistent errors, such as being overly optimistic about the future or over valuing what they currently have versus an alternative. If true, classic economic theory will lead to solutions that cause the situation to spiral downwards.

Just wait until it gets up on plane. Works fine then,

Flow through Hull isn’t that the cattapiller drive from Hunt for Red October?

I was thinking the thing unfah seen was that water seeks its’ own level, wherever it can. But what do I know? Come to find out it was a diabolical plot to say something political.

Can you fish from a submarine? WIthout torpedoes, that is!

Days like today, I wonder why I read these comments.

RCMinor rants on socialism (boogey-boogey-boogey!) after a history of economics and (eureka!) the discovery of a Tea Party joke.

Can’t you people just say, “Hey Wiley – that’s funny!” (Hey Wiley - That’s funny stuff!)

I just wish I found Offshore Flo’s place when I used to visit my relatives in Maine. I’d probably have stayed.

NightShade, maybe Eddie is using Flo for propulsion? Love to see how that works!

Hey, if his buddy Mike Lester fixed his submarine, it’d keep floating to the top!

Reality is such a pain in the patootie isn’t it Cap’n Eddie?

and life is like a box of chocolates!!!!

Milton Friedman and “Chicago school” economics are flow-through, and usually end up with someone getting bullet holes for the flow. “Trickle down” is the exact opposite of proclaimed as money flows up, and only well, the lower end is on a fat-free diet and gets “sinkers”.

My son’s cats, one walks on a leash, while the other rides on his shoulder, are tremendous “chick magnets” at the coffee shop, maybe Captain Eddy is just “trolling”???

More tweakin’… Less leakin’…

@rockingopher,

That is the definition of insanity!

@dtroutma,

This chick does not like cats. Especially the part where one keeps a box of poop in one’s house.

flow through hull, Red October, perhaps Mike Lestah thinks Eddie has THAT kind of “boat”?

There are some specialized boats–in particular, Zodiacs, rafts and some flavors of kayak–that actually use a flow-through hull. These are used in environments where the major risk of sinking is from being swamped by waves. Of course, boats using flow-through hulls generally have some means of flotation other than the hull itself displacing water.

Eddie, your problem is obvious - it only works while you are ‘underway’. Anybody ever hear of a ‘self-bailing’ feature. You take out the drain plug at the rear and the low-pressure at the rear while at speed causes the water to drain out, thus ‘flowing-through’.

Captain, you forgot to plug the hole when you tied-up!

Nuts, I should have seen what was coming yesterday. There is a hint of anti-science denialism as well as the obvious trickle-down economics here. Excellent. All it needs is a dash of religion for flavoring.

That theory just doesn’t hold water.

Trickle down economics doesn’t work, but it fails less miserably than whatever theory it was that Jimmy Carter was using.

If ya keep on doing what you’ve always done, you’re gonna keep on gettin what you’ve always gotten.