Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 29, 2023

It’s not that evolution is overrated, but that wisdom is underappreciated.

Darwin Awards are not the point, but they are the result. Celebrating those to keep the gene pool health by removing themselves from it in the dumbest ways possible

Evolution stagnated when we started interfering with it. If someone is born with 3 arms or 4 ears or anything else that makes them very different, even if it might be an evolutionary advantage mankind jumps in the way and surgically “corrects” it. Biological progress is dead.

Back when the population was smaller, it was at least easier to get away from other people if you wanted to.

Alas, so MANY of the DA winners breed before they attain the title.

The motto of humankind is “Hold my beer”

Thank you. I’ve been saying that for years every time I hear someone talk about simpler times.

Whoa. .Danae and Kate … and their dad … in 100% agreement.Alert Guiness!

What are those things in the yard in panel two? Tombstones?

all award shows give us that same conclusion. elections, too.

Corollaries to the Uncle Reggie Principle and the DA phenomenon: No matter how enlightened and technologically advanced we become, it is the nature of human nature to ever confound itself.

Reggie is what, a few hundred years old at most? That’s not old enough to give him a first-hand perspective on evolution.

As are humans in general.

Actually, when it comes to Buttercup, I think he qualifies as psycho-pants. And his followers are psycho-panties

Sounds like there’s nothing new under the sun.

Every once in a while, common sense takes a back seat to impatience. In walks Darwin to reward the loser.

Love it

For those who have NOT YET been blessed by reading a few gems, here is the linkhttps://darwinawards#com/darwin/

I vote for "Steel Macbook Armor " as I support the Ukrainian defense of their country.

Anybody else like the voice and scenes of “Death” greeting really stupid people in the Terry Pratchett audiobooks?

Is that why some embrace Climate Change, to speed up the evolutionary process?

They seek an answer to the question; What will be the apex specie after humans are gone?

More rain on the Southcoast today. I’m getting mouldy from all this damp. Ick.

“Darwin had it wrong. Man’s STILL an ape”.

Gene Kelly—INHERIT THE WIND—1960

Human evolution, presumably, produced you, Danae. So, there’s that!

The mistake we make is thinking we are the end product of evolution. There is a long way to go.

Noticeable evolutionary changes take hundreds of thousand of years. What they are talking about is social evolution which can change depending on which clique you click. :)

Evolution is not progress to an improved state. It’s a response to external conditions that select for traits most likely to insure reproduction. Intelligence, moral character, etc. may not be part of the deal.

Celebrating those to keep the gene pool health

“Healthy”, but I prefer the phrase, “Celebrating those who chlorinate the gene pool”.

if evolution is true, why is it animals: sloths, lizards, camels, horses, fish, etc., all seem to be smiling at us?

Is it worth the effort and complexity to install sensors that fail and cause more problems and expense than the event they are supposed to be monitoring?

Yet there are still SO MANY worthy candidates for one that keep breathing.

What is that thing he’s got in his hands in the last panel? It’s made of paper, that much I remember.

Do we know when Uncle Reggie lived? Late 1800’s or earlier?

Evolution is fine, they just got it backwards…it was the cockroaches that survived the last mass extinction…and they will again.