Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for April 06, 2012

Just another perspective. The straw man is a ventriloquist, the man to his left is the dummy.

He be good for a straw poll…..But not the dancing kind of pole..

Will he bring along his other alter egos… the Tin Man who has no heart and the Cowardly Lion who is… well… a coward?

Wiley,The detail in your art is remarkable and matches your political acuity. This is now the only strip I read. Great stuff.

I would not be just a nuffin’My head all full of stuffin’My heart all full of painI would dance and be merryLife would be a ding-a-derryIf I only had a brain

Nice hat. In Oz that would be the Katter Party.

There’s nothing to crow about.

They often know more than the candidates!

Two possible metaphors, straw man & straw poll. I think the former is what wiley is going for. The straw man is a common, if rather deceptive, debaters trick – used all the time in political arguments.

I don’t think all statements on politics and religion are worthless or self absorbed. It’s often interesting and it’s actually a big part of Wiley’s strip.If anything, cartoonists like Wiley and Garry Trudeau are to blame more than most commenters for instigating political discussion.

Ohhh, So your wingman is a politician.

actually, my strawboss

Most arguers of politics (or religion) seem to use earplugs instead. Very little listening on either side.

I’m going to have to chime in with ED. Wiley, your little details are marvelous. I have to admit I took a little time to check out the sketches of the bottles and stuff at the bar….nice…..

Well, you just did!

bet he drinks Old Crow …..

When his friends say hello to him, they say, “Hey!” “Hey!” Get it? “Hay!”

brilliant Wiley

HA! Ok, that one was funny. :-)

Hmmm, if you’re really 15, prove it, tell me what year you were born.

No heart. No Brain. Over qualified.

In political debates, the ever-ready scarecrow will spread fear and panic and insure the debate deteriorates into hysteria. “Reasonable discussion of the issues” is as rare as The Wiz’s scarecrow (remember who played him in The Wiz? Pretty rare nowadays…yes, tasteless humor…please forgive me).

I see his wingman used to be employed in Candorville where at last sighting he was Al Qaeda #2 man.

That’s funny — the guy speaking doesn’t LOOK like Rush Limbaugh …

There are three sides to every story: your side, their side, and the side of the truth.

The foolish person is on their own side.

The wise person chooses to be on the side of the truth.

The clever person chooses the truth to be on their side.

We suspect you are very clever, Ingsoc.

Ahh, my mistake… When we stare into the abyss for too long, the abyss stares back into us.

Please strike each key with a hammer next time, some people without a computer may not have heard you.

“‘KILLED’ FOR OUR SINS” you say? An interesting theory…

Ahh, the abyss… It is a great and terrible place, a place of beginnings and endings, of life and death, of ultimate truth and lies. If you find yourself on the Path, pop ‘round some time, I’ve got a place there…

Man oh man, I sure am glad I’m just a headbangin’ tuba player for Deathtongue…all this political and religious angst makes me wanna play the blues, baby. Thought I stumbled into a comic strip. Guess I was wrong. When will you learn all that really matters is the tunes everyone can groove on?

Who am I to say what you will Perceive along your Journey?

“Religion is a Personal Choice, and a Freedom of Choice based on Religion is up to the Individual….”

Those choices depends heavily on one’s country of birth. For those countries in which it is a choice, the religiosity of one’s parents before one learns to form one’s own opinions on such matters is the limiting factor.

“Each one of us alone leads our own way individually….”

So true, but some Truths are not Perceived as such by All.

“No one Snowflake is exactly alike either….”

Ah, but how many Snowflakes have you known?

seems like everyone made a reference to a straw poll … darn

I thought Obama already signed him.

“We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning together, headpiece filled with straw…” T.S.Eliot