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1. 

   Joe Minotaur said, 10 months ago

   Eh-yup. Nothig pollitikal hear, just the stupeed economie.

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   Dutchboy1 said, 10 months ago

   Of course, just about anything sounds smart to the guys in congress. “I am so smart, ‘SMRT’, I mean ‘SMART’”. (Homer)

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   h2oman said, 10 months ago

   Hey Wiley, you setting out more bait ???

4. 

   grazer said, 10 months ago

   Yup, we’re great examples for the kids: “Don’t worry about blowing your allowance, deary….mommy and daddy will fix it while you play at the mall.”

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   cleokaya said, 10 months ago

   With things so dire printed all over the newspaper, I thankfully still have the comics. Oh…

6. 

   Stan Yan said, 10 months ago

   I think it was more a matter of “scary words” than “smart words”

7. 

   aerwalt said, 10 months ago

   I don’t think I’ll nibble at this one.

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   Wiley said, 10 months ago

   Keep in mind that comics are done weeks in advance of publication. The work I am doing now, and for the foreseeable future, will not have any intended political overtones.

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   jack75287 said, 10 months ago

   Congress is in it for themselves. Go in and two years later you are a millionaire. Term limits is the cure, 18 years total for both houses then you are out. Ted Kennedy has been in for around 36 years.

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    JonD17 said, 10 months ago

    Well there’s people and more people

    What do they know know know

    Go to work in some high rise

    And vacation down at the Gulf of Mexico

    Ooh yeah

    And ther’s winners and there’s losers

    But they ain’t no big deal

    ‘Cause the simple man baby pays for the thrills, the bills,

     the pills that kill
    
    

11. 

    elbeck said, 10 months ago

    And the newspaper headline leads us to observe that the senators, during Geithner’s confirmation hearing, focused on Geithner’s personal tax issue instead of the critically important TARP issues, because they didn’t understand the issues, what direction to take them, or what to say without looking stupid.

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    Doctor Toon said, 10 months ago

    jack75287 says:

    Congress is in it for themselves. Go in and two years later you are a millionaire. Term limits is the cure.

    I’m afraid you’re right Jack. I don’t believe the founding fathers foresaw the day of the professional politician. They saw government service as a duty, not as a career.

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    Joe Minotaur said, 10 months ago

    Don’t take it so hard, Wiley. I was just yankin’ yer chain after what you said yesterday. I’m glad you read the comments. I have been following ‘Non Sequitur’ since it appeared in the local paper many years ago. Even they had a hard time deciding where to put it(comics/editorials).

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    DigitalFrog said, 10 months ago

    Wiley says: Keep in mind that comics are done weeks in advance of publication. The work I am doing now, and for the foreseeable future, will not have any intended political overtones.

    Don’t worry, we’ll add them for you. Just keep cranking them out, they’re great!

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    ChadSexington said, 10 months ago

    Wiley - “The work I am doing now, and for the foreseeable future, will not have any intended political overtones.”

    ahh, but sadly intention generally means very little :P

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    mivins said, 10 months ago

    Hi Wiley, please don’t stop being topical just because some of your readers are goons! The rest of us enjoy your wry and thoughtful political commentary very much. However, I’m glad to know you have a delete button for the stubbornly offensive.

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    Fenyugreek Tubbsbott... said, 10 months ago

    Sir Laudanum Hypotenuse (always in a cloud) opines….
    “The larger the word, the greater the irritation!”

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    danielsangeo said, 10 months ago

    “The larger the word, the greater the irritation!”

    The population of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch just perked up their ears.

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    cleokaya said, 10 months ago

    Wiley. What I love most about your strip is the multitude of different directions in which your stories can take us. You have developed Non Sequitur so that you are not constrained by just a few set characters. Your strip is run in my local paper, but they have reduced it’s size to a small fixed square. Anyone with failing eyesight would need a magnifying glass to read. I’m glad you are in gomcomics. Here I can even enjoy it in color.

    JonD17, thank you for your comments on my new Avatar.

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    Doctor Toon said, 10 months ago

    Wiley - Please don’t change a thing, unless somehow you think that you can make this comic even better. The problem is not with your content, it is the nature of the internet. Those with an agenda will seek out a place to advance it. As has been mentioned a few days ago, even Winnie the Pooh has had political comments. If the Family Circus has a message board, I’m sure someone has misused it. I’ve even seen these fools try to claim that Calvin and Hobbes is commenting on current topics. Just keep doing what you’re doing, and we’ll keep loving it. If you have the option of deleting or blocking the offenders, please do so, eventually they will get the hint.

21. 

    Margueritem said, 10 months ago

    What doctortoon said.

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    Jazzlily said, 10 months ago

    Dear Willy: Wow, a cartoonist who reads inane blog comments. Love your work, all of it. Own your three Ordinary Basil books and a couple of Lucy’s. But what I REALLY, REALLY WANT is ‘Homer the Reluctant Soul’ but you told me the book never materialized for some reason. Please bring him back. Rerun Homer’s odysseys on Sunday so you have the time to create his own book. PLEASE. Just to see him and his pal again would be really nice! Most sincerely,

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    Wiley said, 10 months ago

    Perhaps I should explain further. I don’t intend to do overtly political material for the foreseeable future as it doesn’t interest me. That can change if something dramatic happens, but this new administration isn’t going to be providing much fodder for satire. That may be good for the country, but it’s bad news for satirists. So I’ll simply be going back to what I had always done before. In fact, doing the political satire was actually a departure from the origins of the strip, which is mostly topical humor, not partisan politics. I’m actually looking forward to getting back to just looking at the silliness of daily life.

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    AZPrairiedog said, 10 months ago

    Wiley…how can you say that BHO won’t provide any satire opportunities? Check out “Prickly City” this
    morning. Hilarious…and too, too, true!!!

25. 

    DigitalFrog said, 10 months ago

    And you do it so well!

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    #1 redskins fan said, 10 months ago

    doctortoon-I very much agree with you re term limits and government service as a duty, not a career.
    Wiley-continually impressed that you actually listen to your readers as (yes, DRT I’m about to say this) Pres. Obama seems to be willing to listen to his constituents. There is hope after all!

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    Doctor Toon said, 10 months ago

    redskinsfan - You amazed me, I may have to put you back on my imaginary Christmas card list.

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    danielsangeo said, 10 months ago

    “Wiley…how can you say that BHO won’t provide any satire opportunities? Check out “Prickly City” this
    morning. Hilarious…and too, too, true!!!”

    Err, in the minds of the far-right, perhaps. No one, but those on the far-right, believe that Obama is the messiah. This is a neoconservative talking point with no basis in reality.

    The ONLY reason that he’s being praised at all is because he is able to string two coherent thoughts together at one time. “With a teleprompter!” some may crow in response to this. Perhaps. But what was Bush’s problem, then?

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    #1 redskins fan said, 10 months ago

    DRT-Thanks! I like snow scenes with Cardinals (THE BIRD) on my Christmas Cards! <:-)

30. 

    Char32 said, 10 months ago

    Wiley said “I’m actually looking forward to getting back to just the silliness of daily life.”

    Wonderful!! To me a healthy sense of humor is a Gift. It’s not what happens to you in life it’s how you react to it. Some things are rightfully serious but most really aren’t.

    Life has it’s Non Sequitur moments, enjoy them! (:>}

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    kbielefe said, 10 months ago

    What does a comic about Congress have to do with the new administration? It’s essentially the same Congress we’ve had for two years.

32. 

    BirishB said, 10 months ago

    welcome back to reason, redskins fan …

    (although, is being a redskins fan reasonable? hee hee …)

33. 

    wowfactor said, 10 months ago

    As long as Danae keeps being Danae, everyone will be happy. Thank you, Wiley!

34. 

    Horsehead1 said, 10 months ago

    All that money is going straight into the GOP coffers. Follow the money.

35. 

    ldyhwkd said, 10 months ago

    For those with comments on term limits - you are aware that the US is only 2 states away from calling a constitutional convention - opening up the US Constitution to revision. This could include term limits.

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    Wiley said, 10 months ago

    Thanks, folks. Just keep in mind that staying clear of direct political satire (as opposed to satirizing politics in general) doesn’t mean I’ll stop being (as Capt. Eddie would say) a smot-ass. :-)

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    chuck09 said, 10 months ago

    Wiley, I’m a huge fan of the new administration and did some volunteering for the campaign as did a gazillion others. Rest assured there will be fodder but it will not be spoon fed on an hourly basis like the last 8 years. It appears we are in fer a bit of a dry spell… well YOU are. we’ll still be LOL.

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    chuck09 said, 10 months ago

    Wanted to respond to the term limit comments… we can elect the House every two years. Clean house completely yet we still keep putting the same apples back in. I’ve said this before there are many good members of Congress. Of the 535 (give or take today) we hear of only a few and usually only the bad. The goods ones, and yes there are some, I’ve met a few, aren’t talked about. Let’s give each candidate in a general election so much money to spend and see how they spend it, do a good job there and then they can go to DC. I say limit the money not the term.

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    danielsangeo said, 10 months ago

    I would like to echo what chuck09 said.

    I am reminded of a skit from the late George Carlin:

    “Now, there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about: politicians. Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer. It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain’t going to do any good; you’re just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it’s not the politicians who suck.”

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    aerwalt said, 10 months ago

    If anyone remembers the 1939 Worlds Fair, it’s symbol was the “Trylon & the Perisphere”.

    This symbolized that the world was half nuts.

41. 

    tobybartels said, 10 months ago

    Wiley, I like your political cartoons as well as all the other stuff, even though I don't always agree with you. In particular, I hope to see you satirise the Obama administration whenever he seems to you to deserve it (as I'm sure he will sometimes).

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    Radical-Knight said, 10 months ago

    danielsangeo says:

    “Wiley…how can you say that BHO won’t provide any satire opportunities? Check out “Prickly City” this
    morning. Hilarious…and too, too, true!!!”
    .
    I guess cartoons are you’re impressions of truth.
    .
    Err, in the minds of the far-right, perhaps. No one, but those on the far-right, believe that Obama is the messiah. This is a neoconservative talking point with no basis in reality.
    .
    Uh, could someone explain to danielsangeo that President Obama is Democrat, Democrats are Liberals, Liberals are Left-Wing. Republicans are Right-Wing,Conservatives.
    .
    Thought you might like to know before putting your other foot in your mouth.
    .
    Mr. Miller, I like Non-Sequitor just as you’re doing it. Well done. Please don’t change a thing because of the Flaming Political Trolls, unless you can do as DoctorToon suggested and eliminate their posts.

43. 

    papawilde said, 10 months ago

    Recently there was a cartoon about “when atree falls with noone around, is there sound”
    Scientific answer was yes!
    A variation for philosophers is “If a tree falls when there is no one around, is there noise?
    Noise is a description put out bu a hearer about the sound entering his ear drums.

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    philospher77 said, 10 months ago

    Does anyone know how old Danae and Kate are? And whatever happened with the two young women that their dad was sort-of dating? I know that one supposedly got engaged to some other guy she met, but never saw anything after that, so I don’t know if I should expect a sudden revelation on dad’s part or what.

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    JonD17 said, 10 months ago

    papawilde says:

    Recently there was a cartoon about “when atree falls with noone around, is there sound”
    Scientific answer was yes!….

    papawilde, that was an interesting thread. The scientific definition was what I posted, but people did not recognize it and the debate went on.

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    danielsangeo said, 10 months ago

    “Democrats are Liberals” Uh, no. There are liberals that are Democrats, but there are also liberals that are Independents, Greens, and so forth.

    Secondly, I notice that you didn’t even respond to what I said.

    Have a good day. :-)