Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for September 26, 2023

A news station could charge for an emergency alert system that alerts you when a member of your family is in the news. He’s reading a newspaper, so he will probably see the news story the next day.

Okay. What did Danae do this time?

Dad reading the newspaper. To me today it seems normal AND odd.

The daily San Jose Mercury News I delivered as a kid use to be an inch thick on some days and cost .25 to .50 cents. Now it’s 2 or 3 dollars and pamphlet-thin. Barely anything in it now. In the modern days of free internet-provided news, comics and free classified ads, how does it even survive? Who is still reading them? I prefer reading books and real newspapers versus digital screens myself, but today’s newspaper doesn’t have enough content to make it worth the cost to me anymore. Cancelled my last subscription in 2015, but by then I was subscribing to the Sunday paper only anyway.

Feedback from the ‘How I spent Summer Vacation’ essay?

At least we know she hasn’t found a way to destroy the Universe. Because where would she live, then? … And yet …

i know, right? what is this about? what has she done? lol

“Wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.” (Thomas Jefferson)

Danae ! Did you poke the bear named " The Incident " ?

No news is not necessarily “good news”, but it beats any bad news for sure.

The media rarely lies and seldom tells the truth.

There is always more to the story than the headline and the print that follows it.

I miss having the Sunday Paper delivered or even to read but the delivery method too often left it in the woods on a rainy day with no wrap. Or it blew apart and the dogs decimated the rest of it while chasing pieces in the wind. I gave up and read online now.

I still try to buy the print version of the Detroit Free Press every Sunday. Unfortunately fewer and fewer stores and gas stations carry newspapers and newspaper boxes have gone the way of payphones.

Found a pair of Sunday comics pages had blown into our yard from a recycle truck. Hadn’t seen one in decades. Thought it would be interesting to see what passed for modern comics.

Very disappointing. About a dozen vapid, humorless comics. None of the dozen I read on this site. Guessing they can claim they are still offering a ‘complete’ newspaper experience. More like their news output: canned, recycled, and nothing one can’t get in 10 minutes of local/national tv news, with just about as much interest.

Love this family relationship!

try ROWAN&MARTIN’S LAUGH IN they “deliver the news”,they’re precognitively on target

“They” are playing the long game and continuing to dumb down the public, think Fahrenheit 451. Video, internet, emoji’s and the reduction in printed material make it much easier to tell any lie they want in order to control the ignorant masses. Heavy on the ignorant.

It keeps her busy!

Any time a story features Danae it’s worth a second look; and thought.

This just in: People are less sad when they don’t watch/listen to the stupid news.