Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for November 06, 2015

Danae has found her destiny…

Considering that eating SOME chocolate daily is actually proven, it lends some truth in the midst of all that “tailoring.”

I just saw a study on how healthful dark chocolate is. Since I happen to really like the stuff, I’m inclined to agree…

“Truthiness”

And thus was born every nutritional company under the sun…

News media science reports.

Facts are too convenient. If you want something useful, you have to be willing to take a block of statistical data and carefully pare away anything that doesn’t look like a duck. Given enough data, you can prove that water flows uphill and that an inflated currency means more money for everybody.

I’d rather see a study that says kale is life-threatening.

I call it something else.

She could join the firm at Doonesbury that does this.

But what does Lucy get out of this?

Faux News has been doing this for years. I don’t see what’s new.

I NEVER thought I’d say this, but, Danae, if you can drum one up about chocolate, how about chocolate derivatives such as Tootsie Rolls. . .I can’t live without my daily ration of TR. . .

now where would all these “lying liars” be without their own “truthiness.” such a world of Faux Noise and their “followers.”

My fave – trickle down economics.

A good marketeer will have 2 sets of studies, one supporting each side of every issue.

A facsimile of factualism and fictitious but fascinating factoids, backed by facetious fulminations and fraudulent figures

Definition of Faux News

Whatever Danae and Lucy have going, they had better have that nasty business bureaucratic permit and all that goes with economic progress. Or are we still in the ‘lemonade’ stand phase yet? Oops, getting ahead. . .

That kid’ll be rich by the end of the election cycle.Oh, wait – these days it never ends.Yeah, she’ll be rich.

Facts tailored while you wait.

“Just the facts, ma’am!” Pace Dragnet and Freberg.

You know that name-calling discredits your argument.

Danae is the Lucy of the 21st century. (Remember Peanuts?)

“Tailored Facts” – I like that. I’ll put that right next to: “I reject your reality and substitute my own.”

“You mustn’t eat candy, Mister Whiteside! It’s very bad for you!”.“My great-aunt Jennifer ate a box of candy every day of her life. She lived to be 102, and when she had been dead for three days, she still looked better than you do now!”—Sheridan Whiteside (via Moss Hart), The Man Who Came To Dinner

Danae is not alone!

She’s being sought by the Hillary campaign. “We’ve got studies! We’re not just spin anymore”!

“You’re entitled to your own opinion. You’re not entitled to your own facts. — Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, RIP

Lost in all of this is the notion that there IS such a thing as the truth, that there IS such a thing as objective reality. I don’t think there’s ever been a society in human history — until ours! — in which that notion has been seriously, systematically rejected by anyone but infants and psychotics. Frankly, this frightens me.

“You can “prove” it as long as your colleges don’t demolish it.”-What one collective says must be given credence above what another collective says? That is an interesting assumption. One needs to have faith in their chosen collective then I would presume?

Yes. That is true. And what happens if they don’t? Does the process to which humans are contributing slow down or reverse? Do the seas begin to go down and fresh water become more available? Do the glaciers stop melting and the deserts stop growing?If not, then why not. And what will change the climate trend that is evident over the past ten to fifteen thousand years?Take your time. Reality will still be here long after the Climate Doomsday folks and their children’s, children’s children have all gone to their non-denominational, generic lack of an afterlife.

Danae’s ripping off an often used Doonesbury story line. But then again she could provide herself with a study that shows she isn’t.

Fine and widely used by the Republicans and their supporters to discredit (among their flock) real science. But that’s the real problem. It takes research (and time) to separate the sheep from the goats, so that in the 24-hour instant news cycle there’s not even an attempt to do it, and consumers, who must devote increasing amounts to energy to survival, can’t. The result is that some people believe that Egypt’s pyramids were really grain storage units built by Joseph.

The latest in the Global Warming Consequences are the “Blowholes” appearing in Siberia..The Opposite of Sinkholes.It turns out that there are some rather large Methane Deposits trapped under the Ice. When the Permafrost begins to Melt, the Methane is under so much Pressure that it Literally Explodes out of the ground leaving behind some Very Impressive Craters.They were first mistaken for Meteorite craters until scientists noted that they were Blown Out from Underground pressure..

Tailored facts = liberal agenda. You know; global warming, the improving economy, unemployment rates, gun control stats, etc.

But selling all they own and giving it to the poor does.

They will keep up their misinformed jabber no matter what anyone says to the contrary. It’s all they have. I have a good friend I used to argue with until I realized that, no matter what I said, he kept repeating the same position. He didn’t even try to refute what I said. Now if he starts I just look at him.

Ask, and you shall receive.In response to Jim in CT, who asked why creationists used technology, given that they don’t believe in science, you responded, “Using such things doesn’t violate their religion.” To which I appended, “But selling all they own and giving it to the poor does (violate their religion, that is)”. The admittedly sarcastic point being that the crazies pick and choose from their big book of magic myths, focusing on what they like and what applies to other people, for example, the anti-homosexuality statements, and ignoring what they don’t like or what applies to them. My reference was to Luke 14.33, where Jesus says explicitly, “In the same way, those of you who do not give up everything you have cannot be my disciples.”