Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 16, 2010

Nothing good and nice can be appreciated by the white house’s current occupant.

As I asked yesterday: please tone down the political rhetoric; I get enough of it elsewhere.

That’s tooooo bad. I’m all choked up….NOT!

Okay, so here’s an efficient solution: shot all the out-of-work lawyers and use them for Soylent Green!

(Hey, I didn’t claim it was a nice solution!)

@Sisyphos: Won’t work. False advertising. Soylent Green is People!

If the Niceness is spreading and people are practicing what they preach, then they should be nice enough to provide charity to support those poor, socially maladjusted ex-lawyers who have no marketable skills to support themselves with.

A million unemployed lawyers…?

Wow.

Think about it.

A million lawyers, picking up trash on the sides of the interstates, or bagging groceries, or greeting us at the drive-through windows with, “You want fries with that?”

And the grateful American people would sweep the incredibly popular president to a second, and maybe a third term!

(Yes, I know about the amendment limiting the president to two terms; sack a million lawyers and we’d repeal it, just as Republicans wanted to repeal it so Reagan could run for a third time.)

John Lennon could’ve written a song about it!

“Imagine all those lawyers, unemployed for a day… Ooo-oo-oo-oo. You may say I’m just a dreamer…”

Dataweaver: Do not try to control the comments. Let people have their say.

There’s nothing political about this comic! Stop it! Stop this political rhetoricking at once! Pay no attention to the man behind the workload!

Today’s installment is not political. It is a slam against that favorite whipping boy (until you need one), lawyers. The president is merely shown trapped between the Charybdis and the Scylla.

I would think, with all the hot air coming from Obama’s mouth, that the Ekert will be heading there soon. Then it will head to Texas to deal with Bush, and then Bill & H….

What do you call a million lawyers at the bottom of Lake Michigan? A start.

Lawyers, whether employed or not, should be used to make dog food.

Suppose The Prez is deadly afraid of what all those unemployed lawyers could think of doing in their free time…

Dataweaver - not everyone reads the same comics as you do. If you don’t like the strip or the comments, well stop reading!

Gosh - a million lawyers without suits or briefs. There’s a nasty thought!

Why can’t they become fiction writers? Ever see some of the lawsuits they put together?

The spammers are really out tonight!

I’d trade unemployed lawyers for a peaceful world where people practiced what they preached. Lawyers are smart. They’d find a way to make a living. Ekert… we need you!

^My only fear is that those unemployed lawyers would forsake fiction writing for spamming! Imagine an extra million spammers!

More likely the million unemployed lawyers will go into politics, and then we’ll all be in the soup. (It may be what John Adams, the second POTUS, had in mind when he remarked late in life that “one useless man is a shame, two useless men are a law firm, and three useless men are a Congress.”)

Um, no one has noted that the current occupant of the White House IS a lawyer (or at least has a law degree and has been a professor of constitutional law). FYI, I think he’s cuter and smarter than the previous occupant, and his books are very well written. He could probably write fiction when he leaves his current position in 2017.

unemployed lawyers and they’re not unionized? Oh right, the ABA. NOw I remember that’s a good union.

The truly worthless people are those who congratulate themselves for flagging spammers.

I see “The Office Temp” has made his appearance.

Fiction writers? Oh, that’s what they were all along………………

Scatty, that’s where a lot of them are now, so think of the implications to the new laws written…Lawyer bailouts!!!!

And Kirk raises his eyes to heaven and SCREAMS , “GRISHAM!!!!!!!”

Flagged two spammers also.

Maybe all those lawyers could become cartoonists, then we could all spend the entire day reading the “funnies”.

Doppelspammerflaggen!

Seems the Ekert needs to pay a visit to this string. Agree with Data for the most part. It’s a comic and the punch line wasn’t political. Oh, and lawyers are people, too. Killing them off isn’t nice. The suggestion was made “If you don’t like the strip or the comments, well stop reading”. The actual remedy is that I will look elsewhere for the comic.

A necessary evil that is unemployed? Let them live on their unemployment benefits for a while.

Dataweaver - you can always choose to read something else

Some lawyers are nice When I was young and poor, my lawyer charged $10 to marry me to my beloved A few years later he charged me $$ ^$^*(()) to divorce the evil witch

See, he thought only of me when I was down

What do call it when a busload of lawyers goes over a cliff with one empty seat?

A tragedy..

“…they can’t all become fiction writers.” Say, Wiley… do you happen to be a fan of Terry Brooks?

(For those that don’t know, Brooks left a career as a lawyer to become a full time writer. He’s one of the more successful fantasy/sci-fi writers out there right now)

At least lawyers are more useful than spammers. Maybe not a whole lot more useful, but at least a little more.

Don’t put those lawyers in Lake Michigan, people have to drink that water…

I’m sure they could keep busy running for political office.

Basic civility is a rare bird. Calling many (but not all) lawyers vultures disrespects the birds that actually clean up our environment and PREVENT the spread of disease. Lawyers as fiction writers will always do a bang-up business as campaign managers. While it does seem a curse at times, LEGISLATORS do write LAWS, and having a background and training in the law SHOULD mean we get laws that comply with the Constitution. Well, there is the Patriot Act, and Military Commissions Act, neither of which were breathed upon by the Ekert.

Methinks Wiley went here for THAT one…(and it’s STILL a good strip…go figure…lol) http://www.despair.com/government.html

OH NO !!! This will also cripple Boeing who makes those neat weapons we export in a crisis if there are no more wars either

Worst type of advertising - imposing on someone else’s work place just to be cheep. I’d go barefooted before buying anything from them.

Again, the spammers were flagged 8 hours ago. Why is Gocomics sucking up to them? Could it be greed?

Gocomics itself uses at least two pop-up ads, one of which is a full page and which forces itself by moving the active screen to the ad. Given that, I doubt there is much zeal at Gocomics to actually bar spammers. The rub with GC is that they haven’t paid GC to allow the spam. Or maybe they have and it’s just a little game GC plays with the readers. After all, to decide it is a spam you have to at least have scanned the content.

I’m on the edge of my seat in anticipation of where this arc is headed. Thanks, Wiley!

Niceness is spreading and soon we’ll all be bored to death. Fighting evil, or committing evil makes life worth living. (don’t take me too literally. I’m just rambling.) And everyone hates lawyers until they need one to get them out of a jam. Personally, I hate real estate agents/salesmen/brokers…Gotta go! There’s this strange, winged, elephant-like creature outside my window….

The ekert is truly needed here. Let’s quit bashing anyone including each other.

If niceness is spreading, after the lawyers are out of work, next will be the clergy and ministers, then most of the emergency room staffs, lots of bartenders.

You know what?

The ekert caused the recent recession!!!

Hoomi, I was unaware that Brooks had been a lawyer before he turned to writing. That may explain why his books always bored me into insensibility with each turned page.

how about let’s get back to this being a fun strip, and staying off the op-ed page. i still say what’s needed here is a cap’n eddie intervention.

bmonk, it all makes sense now!

My brother was a lawyer, so I know how evil they can be…

I don’t usually complain about spammers but this is the second day in a row that there is more spam here than comments, it is 11:32 at night and folks have been complaining about it all day. What’s the problem with getting it removed?

12:25 lindz an we are still up to our ears in it.

I’ll be a proud anti spammer poster as long as there is spam. Looks like this strip is the most in need of flaggers…..

How did they trap the Ekert the first time? Did Cpt. Eddie do it somehow?