Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 01, 2023

Wishful thinking

Normal is relative.

It depends on what your definition of normal is…… BTW, Happy New Year!

He didn’t mean the normal normal, he meant the new normal.

For every action, there is a oppose reaction. Email and cell phones were wonderful when they started. Now they are full of scam and worse. I refuse to use all of the other media. Too much time is wasted and too often not trust worthy.

Rose Parade isn’t until Monday. Plus my birthday in January 3rd

I can remember when rubbish was what you wrapped in the newspaper and not what you read in the newspaper.

Well, some of us do those things.

When you get the news blues and you’re ready to blow a fuse sit back, take off your shoes and drink a bottle of booze.

You mean the elections are over? All quiet for at least a year?

Joe. I agree. That sounds awesome. But I will add this. More local newspapers to cover their immediate area and help keep the locals honest.

Shutting down Facebook and Twitter wouldn’t result in news from “reputable” sources. Most of those once considered reputable now wouldn’t be able to tell you what that word meant.

Our local newspaper was one of the best of the middle major class in the mid-Atlantic regions for over a century. Ran 2 separate daily issues under different names with completely separate staffs and different editorial policies every day. Then, in the 80’ they consolidated and lost some of the best. In the 90’ it was bought by one of the national conglomerates owned by a bazillionaire with no experience whatsoever, and became fit for litter boxes and the bottoms of bird cages.

Sad but it was/is the trend. Now all it needs is a private equity group to buy it and bury it. Won’t be long.

Reputable news sources would be nice, but actual paper media is such a waste. To keep a newspaper alive, it became 75% ads and 25% content. Even then, the content was questionable. Also, it would be difficult to participate in an enjoyable comment thread on printed comic pages. It would become like playing chess by mail.

And we got news of Barbara Waters death. She had some great interviews. Too bad we didn’t pay more attention to them.

Despite all the negative comments, now is much better than 70 years or more ago. There is no such thing as ‘good old days’.

The truth is that most people would rather hear a comfortable lie, than an uncomfortable truth.

I can actually see Joe’s eyes.

normal is overrated

“Twig and Berries pub”, nice inside joke. Is this a men’s only establishment?

Love the name of the pub!

Civilization is a one-way ratchet until the teeth jam and the accumulating stress strips the gear

HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL. May it be happy, healthy, safe & warm.

Happy Normal New Year to all!

for those who only want to speak the truth, there are equal amounts who just do not want to hear it; and the third group who just wants to deny it.

Wow, he’s wanting to make America great again

There are no established reputable news sources any more.

well, normalish… :\

The Internet has affected “established, reliable news sources,” too. Go to the NY Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Washington Post and you’’ll see stenography and click-bait.

The NY Times had an article yesterday about why the polls were so off for the midterms. It’s because they just included all polls without checking a poll’s methodology or reliability. Bad poll=good poll. Both sides.

Sorry world. Good ol’ yellow journalism has gone to Orange journalism. Similar in acid and intent but easier to see.

Agree, agree, agree.

Newspapers always had a certain bias depending on the owner but at least they had editors to weed out the extremists. Also, proofreaders!

How’s this for Normal … walk around a store with NO Christmas music?

I love Boxing Day. All those songs, suddenly gone. Yum.

My Honey calls me Curmudgeon , I guess that’s a good thing.

Favorite Christmas song is ‘’Chipmunks roasting on an open fire’’

Keep Christmas in your heart, all year round, don’t share it with me.

In the words of Yoda; ‘’Curmudgeon, I am.’’

The TIMES? The POST?

There are no vetted reliable news sources left. None of them do anything but push an agenda and could care less about facts that don’t fit that goal.

Talk about nostalgia for a false, imagined past.

Hint: If your sources of information always agree with you then the probability of them being bogus is incredibly high. Want actual facts? Then fact check and bias check and vet your sources. Yes there are media a “research” outlets that exist only to keep their sponsors opinions and wallets afloat above any others. There are other and better options easily found elsewhere. Do your homework. The internet still makes that a lot easier and faster than it used to be. Want help with that? Ask a librarian. That is why they are there. But if you do not vet your sources then you are simply an idiot and a sucker for failing to do so

Siri is Big Brother Listening? No he’s in a meeting with Alexa. What can go wrong??

And when, exactly, was this ‘normal’ of which you speak?

RIP Barbara.

And when we used to only get a few selected black and white comics printed each day on flimsy paper that made your hands black? Naw, not going back.

He thinks the New York Times is a REPUTABLE news source. Thanks for the lol! [A REAL news source can’t ignore bad news about Democrats and spew BS about Republicans. This rules out most “news media” since they are activist Democrats who said Hunter’s laptop emails were “Russian disinformation.”] Fetterman proves that Democrats will vote for ANY Democrat even AFTER they have seen him try to talk, and fail!

Newspapers and other media outlets are not in the business of disseminating news. They are in the business of delivering eyeballs to advertisements. News and other content is mere bait.

This leads to the most effective bait being published. That doesn’t comport well with facts or reality.

It also leads to advertisers moving to the most effective media. Which they have determined is online.

In a market context, the news will be execrable until the incentives change.

When was there EVER reliable, vetted, reputable news? Even the venerable giants – John Cameron Swayze, Cronkite, Chet Huntley, David Brinkley etc. were biased. They felt it was their duty to slant the news to support their Leftist agenda. They felt they had no duty to present both sides of the news.

One of the best decisions I have made was getting off Facebook about five years ago, haven’t missed it one bit.

Does vetted reporting include Fox News???

Twig and Berry is almost obscene…

Now Twitter shutting down I can buy. Musk reportedly is the only person to ever lose $200B leaving him worth $137B and he’s still hemorrhaging money. Those who still have a job at Twitter need to bring their own TP. That pretty much tells you that Musk and Twitter are both in the toilet. Happy New Year

It’s me I’m the one in the green

Where does Wiley Miller find those reliable news sources for which there are vetted and trustworthy reporters? Neither what we call the Main Stream Media or their employees fit the description. That entire group of sycophants have shown they will ignore critical events, lie about obvious events, ignore government and other official malfeasance, and use their forums to smear anyone who dares to oppose the Marxist agenda.

2023 will be the year in US news when schadenfreude is finally on the menu. Trump is already looking visibly panicked, the Republican party at large is recognizing his influence as damaging to their future, and the extreme right wing loons will be hard at work repeatedly hoisting that anchor on their party. My guess is that Trump will start having a fire sale of his properties, while claiming to have an abundance of money without the property being sold off.

“Reliable”? “Vetted”? “Reputable”? Funniest thing I’ve seen all day.

You mean Fox and CNN? Maybe “normal” isn’t all it’s cracked up to be.

Not sure that’s ever been the definition of normal.

There is normal and then there’s “normal”. There is no “old fashioned” normal any more.

Newspapers aren’t worth the money. I spend $5 on a Sunday paper that was 1/3 the size of a few years ago, but I needed some kindling for the fireplace

Well said – exactly what I think about today’s “journalists”. I think most of them today are former National Enquirer headline writers.

not gonna happen as long as robber barons are allowed to monopolize everything they can touch

Unfortunately, too many individuals of the human species are not developed enough to handle the responsibility of unlimited social media.

Twig and Berries? why did I never notice that

The solution is in his hand! All he has to do is guzzle copious amounts of it and viola! Problem solved…a black out until it passes.

The media owned by the rich capitalists who manipulate the content to further their economic interests? Yeah, we can rely on that…..

Abby Normal…

The Ministry of Truth will tell us which news sources are worthy of belief.

All of that “reliable, vetted, reporting from established, reputable news sources” is available on Facebook. Many people are still getting their news from them it’s just through a different medium.

Twig and Berries! why did I never notice that

Twitter’s owner will file for bankruptcy as soon as he’s assured a certain Middle Eastern royal family won’t seek revenge on him for wasting so much of their money on his latest personal vanity project

It’s odd, but I live in a small town with just a weekly newspaper, I have no cell coverage, nor do I even OWN a cell phone, I’m not on Twitter or Facebook, and I only have a land line for the DSL on my computer… and I get along JUST FINE from day to day, EVEN WHILE NOT KNOWING what such-and-such “celebrity” had for Breakfast today, or what the latest nonsense coming from Mar-A-Lardo happens to be. Try turning OFF your devices for 24 hours, and I bet you will immediately feel your blood pressure drop several points, and then you will realize that you don’t NEED to be totally connected to EVERYTHING ELSE IN THE WORLD 24/7. By the way… I also haven’t had Television reception for over 20 years, and I don’t miss it!

I spend a little time each morning scanning the headlines on-line, and reading the comics, and I’m good for the rest of the day!

Established, reputable news sources. Idiot.

I feel only post-holiday relief.

Were the established, vetted news sources ever reliable?

They WERE reputable, yes, but then again, we had no way of knowing if what they told us was ever the Truth, or their “truth”.

I rather like Facebook – a way to keep in touch with friends and relations. I don’t go there for the news, though. And I’ve never been interested in Twitter.

Thanksgiving check. Christmas check. New Year’s check. Just how many holiday checks does he collect?

Somebody bring back reliable news sources. The best you can do is watch one biased “news” program and then watch one with the other bias.

Isn’t “reputable news sources” an oxymoron?