Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for January 07, 2020

Esperanto is that language that the UN had made up, right?

do i even wanna know who Emperor Esperanto is?

Joe, if you can’t avoid a teaser, you’ll never make it.

Dorothy had Rose and St. Olaf, Dad has the Sea Captain.

I review charts for a hospital. One said they required an Esperanto translator, but I assumed they meant Spanish.

Esperanto, Man’s attempt at a universal language. We’ll all wind up there one day, if we make it through climate change.

I’m going out on a limb and wildly guess that the emperor has orange hair

I can’t take this reality any more. Time for alternate facts and an alternate reality. I want Nebish back.

Have you tried reading the headlines, Joe? That and the byline may hint if you want to read farther. Sure works for me.

Lack of a common language is the least of our problems. Lack of common decency is one of the greatest.

Can you tweet in esperanto?

Yes, but very few could understand it, which would certainly be an improvement for the entire platform.

I think Joe is safe -one can count on anything coming out of Eddie’s mouth as either fake news or slingshot news (stretched to the limit & likely to cause damage).

“No news is good news”, my boss’ favorite saying. If he doesn’t call me, I just keep doing what I’m doing.

Someone said Esperanto is a cross between Spanish and Martian.

Love it when the comics are educational. I had never heard of Esperanto.

ALL languages are made up.

I quit watching, reading or listening to the news some time ago. I don’t miss it at all. Much of it was just chortling over grim things that happened to people I don’t know and I can’t do anything about. The rest was either breathless daily rehashing of things that could be effectively conveyed to us about once a month or, in the case of television network news, consists of YouTube clips from three days ago.

I am much happier now. That seems to be the common report of those who kick the news habit.

I wish I could make question marks come out of my pipe like Captain Eddy.

No news is good news.

The national and international news is beyond most of our abilities to change and doesn’t effect our everyday lives, but it’s smart to keep up with the local news and weather so you can avoid gang-shooting areas, ice storms and hurricanes.

Long ago a radio newscaster was the only one giving dramatic readings of regular news events. His name was Paul Harvey. Nowadays almost every telecast begins with breaking news or this just in. Most tele-anchors read like they’re being lip-synched. I liked his readings better.

Mi surprizas min, ke neniu afiŝis respondon en Esperanto.

I’ll take a stab at it…“I’m not surprised that no one here can answer in Esperanto” ?? OK, now I’ll cheat and copy-paste into Google.

This is the former newsman speaking….

Is the cat operating Eddie for its own amusement?

It’s not the words in a language that are hard to learn, but the concepts being expressed.

Deciding not to do something still means you’ve decided to do something. You can’t win.

Speaking of tuning out the news US Troops have been attacked in Baghdad for over 2 hours now. A second wave of ballistic missiles is now underway by Iran

Astonishingly, “Your search – empahrah esperanto – did not match any documents.” I thought every search returned something these days.

I believe the allusion is to trump calling his Defense Secretary “Esperanto”. Many of you may be shocked to learn that’s not his name. Not as bad as “Tim Apple” though.

Rezolucioj estas tiel malfacile konserveblaj.

Provu paroli sube-oriente kiel Flo.