Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for July 19, 2010

What will happen to the Tea Party now? And Fox News?

If Ekert ever meets up with Dick Cheney, even he won’t be able to handle it.

@chinawanderer - i’m not trying to take sides, but don’t single out the tea party people or fox news. what about other news organizations, politicians in general, and other activist groups? be fair.

converses, you’re admonishing people to “be fair”. Have you hung around here very much? Fairness and courtesy to opposing views are in short supply. Given an iota of premise, there are people that can and do create a mountain of partisan politics.

Uh oh. What if the Ekert gets out here to the comments?

Yes… Can’t wait for “stunningly”.

of course. ekert is here to give us all the Mathews ‘tingle up my leg’ that we were all promised when we elected ‘hope and change’. Then we will live in mr rogers neighborhood and not need to worry about the G-something meetings. Or concern ourselves with an increased deficit budget caused by bailouts and expanded by obamcare. so who’s going to fund the ‘too big to fail’ government programs? bwahahahaha

To the ultra- liberals, “fairness” means only agreeing with whatever agenda is currently being shoved down our throats at the time. Borrowing a line from :A Few Good Men… ” You can’t handle the TRUTH!”

That’s it - get in there and mix it up! The eckert won’t stand a chance!

(BTW, did you notice eckert is trekce spelled backward?)

so what is a trekce?

I didn’t see partisan politics myself. I saw chinawanderer making a joke. And why get so worked up about it?

Left and right have nothing to do anymore with the media, who only choose a stance to use it as a platform for hatemongering. Hatemongering, like death and disaster, sell media to people for some reason.

Just imagine the fodder Eckert would get out of Bill O’Reilly alone!

Sheik, you said “Given an iota of premise, there are people that can and do create a mountain of partisan politics. ”

I don’t think you even need an iota these days…..

Can somebody explain to me why this is a bad thing to have him running loose?

I think Wiley will be explaining it to us over the next couple of days or so…

If Ekert gets to Rush Limbaugh he will become enormous.

The whole Rep economy thrives on fear and hate. Imagine if 40 % of the US population is out of a job!

NSA = NonSequitur Agency

NSA = No Such Agency

Wiley, see what happens when you simply add NSA to a strip. Suddenly everyone has to rip at another’s political leanings.

N. S. A. => No Such Agency.

The Ekert will upset the imbalance of nature.

Hey guys, Wiley has asked repeatedly to leave partisan politics out of the comments on this strip. Please, whether you are liberal or conservative or somewhere in between, leave your politics elsewhere.

N. S. A. = Numbskulls Saying Anything —– in the comment section.

When the Eckert (turkey?) gets too big, will he burst? That could be worse than eating a forbidden fruit or opening Pandora’s box!

What the heck the men talk about the scale of one to ten? Other man who stands says “20!” What that heck he talks about 20?? crazily weird?! something seems not right.

Imagine there’s no countries It isn’t hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace

Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world

You may say that I’m an Ekert But I’m not the only one I hope someday you’ll join us And the world will be as one

Is it any wonder the Powers That Be don’t want the Ekert on the loose?

Then there’s the (true) story about the World War I Christmas Truce. On Christmas of 1914, British and German soldiers facing each other from the trenches got together in No Man’s Land to celebrate the holiday, exchanging gifts, singing and drinking, and even having a football match. Of course, the commanders on both sides found this completely unacceptable, and ordered shells be fired into the gathering to break up all this dangerous good will. There are many people who have a vested interest in keeping us angry and afraid…

Ummm, folks, it’s “Ekert”, no “c”, so, spelled backwards, it’s “treke”.

Look THAT up in your Funk & Wagnall’s…. (yep, I’m that old to remember Laugh-In).

…and, agreed; leave your blithering political comments out of this, both sides, you proclaimers of “tolerance”. Develop a sense of propriety, why don’t you?

While I’m at it, can we all swamp the publishers with complaints and have this “dfghdfg” spammer permanently banished? Flagging apparently is having no effect. I’ve done my part, please, I adjure all of you, do yours (full well knowing that yes, he/she can simply return with another name but at least we might have at least a temporary reprieve from it).

^^^^^the movie, Joyuex Noel

You political commentators are making the !@#*! spammer look good.

So they finally gave a name to the act of blowing smoke up someone’s arse? Ekert! There is alot of Ekert going on here today!

I agree, grazer. I wish they’d keep they’re comments over at S.O.T.U.

Didn’t Al Capp do this storyline in Li’l Abner decades ago with the Shmoos?

(I’m old enough to remember Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, too.)

^^^^^treered, yep, also the video for Paul McCartney’s “Pipes of Peace.”

As much as I enjoy and admire Wiley’s work, it seems a bit disingenuous to me for him to claim his stuff isn’t political. It isn’t overtly political commentary, but a lot of it is based on social commentary, and as such people’s reactions to it are likely to fall into camps which divide on the familiar lines.

Hey Rev. Quar, doesn’t do any good to ban a user name – the spammers just create a new ID every day.

I like the give and take. It is so American. What I do not like is the personal attacks. Leave off with those and the comments will be better.

well i am stunningly eager for the continuation

@Wildmustang1262: He said the problem is a “20” to mean that it is a VERY big problem–worse than on a scale of 1 to 10.

Of course the NSA doesn’t want people being nice to each other! If humans got along and didn’t cause problems for each other we might just…solve world problems! And then what would be the point of the NSA? Strife, fear, that’s what the NSA wants–‘cause it lines their pockets and gives them a reason to exist.

What makes me sick is there is no Ekert IRL and things like the NSA remain because of human xenophobia and fears. You’d think after 5,000 years of recorded civilization we’d have figured out a way to get along. Somebody stop the planet and let me off; I’m ready to leave now.

I’m pretty sure the real NSA (No Such Agency) doesn’t run iMacs :)

NSA=Never Say Anything (from Cliff Stoll, The Cuckoo’s Egg)