Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for February 18, 2024

Was once a reader of the comics

Still an avid reader of comics. And fiction. And non fiction. If the printed word offends you then just don’t read it.

There are several comics I don’t care for, whether for the political views or because I just don’t find them entertaining. So I don’t read them. Easy – peasy!

If you like music, you can read band books.

“Teen not on social media”.

Ha! Myth.

Well, book banning advocates are trying to sell their books, with limited success, as expected.

The typewriter is still new-school. Show them the earlier word processor actually created by birds … the quill

Ah, the good old days, when digital media was limited to counting on one’s fingers.

That word processor stores data in a nonintelligent format offline that is unavailable for word processing.

This system mechanically exposed light to a complexly layered media of crystals that required multiple steps of organic chemistry and optics to produce a photographic image.

Too true to be funny :-(

Sometimes The World’s Shortest Giant proclaims himself The World’s Tallest Dwarf.

And the piece de resistance…a news source that is accessible without electronic devices!

Paint can and broad brush: Single color that covers ALL who don’t share all the particulars of your personal ideology!

Read? What is this reading of which you speak?

No. That’ll never happen.

Love the “Coming Soon” display!

The one at bottom right is pretty unlikely to ever happen. I mean, seriously, RWNJ MAGA … reading?!

I remember when, if you wanted to make a copy, you used carbon paper.

If you wanted lots of copies, you typed on mimeograph paper and then used a hand-cranked mimeograph machine.

Book banning advocates…two faced ideology twits!

Nice payoff for the scrolling

I filed in January. Then had to do an amended filing in February because a 1099-R arrived late.

I am a conservative. My personal lifestyle could be summed up by the song “Okie from Muskogee.” However, I do not believe that I have the right to force everyone else into complying with my personal values. It does not threaten me that not everyone else lives and acts like I do.

OMG! My sis and i could be in that show: not only have we already filed our tax returns: WE’VE GOTTEN OUR REFUNDS!!!!

Last chair will never be filled. . . people who want to ban books don’t read. . .

You don’t need to read playbody to know its not acceptable for first graders. If you don’t get that, you certainly dont’t need to be part of the “government education system”.

I used to love reading the comic section of the paper and pointing out the ones I liked to my family. Now that we read the comics online, we can read as many as we want, and we share comments with folks we’ve never seen.

I Know. A dime doesn’t buy what it used too.

(sigh) not only read the book, but shows extensive examples of why it is not fit for children, tries to read it out loud in public meetings but is told it’s too awful to read to a meeting of adults. OH wait, yeah, it’s empty because you can’t find anyone who advocates totally banning a book.

It is a shame that most universities have booted great works of literature such as Huckleberry Finn. To Kill A Mockingbird, etc. Shame on those censors.

the museum must be running out of things to show us… :\

I am 81, used to sit in my Grandpa’s lap while he read the comics to us. Still read them every day thanks to Go.Not a commercial,just a simple thank you.

Most are not for banning books, but do want to keep overly graphic books from very young children.

The real uncanny feature is getting taxes done by January. I don’t even get my official documents from the bank until February!

That last one would be something. I suppose a couple of these things are interesting in comparison to other things we see anymore. When what was once mundane becomes extraordinary.

I write future banned books

Coming soon, a politician with common sense. That chair is going to be empty a long time.

I used to get the daily paper, when I quit working I switched to just the weekend (Fri, Sat & Sun). Then the Fri and Sat got to the point it was all sports so I went with just Sunday and you still got one on holidays. About a year ago they quit having a Monday paper. Six months ago they decided to combine Sat and Sun into the weekend paper. The news got less very little local since all the papers are now owned by the same media corp. Very seldom is there any coupons, even the classifieds are less. After my subscription is up I will cancel as it is no longer worth it. I now pay more for the weekend paper than you could for 7 days a year ago.

This way to the egress ;)

No booth for bearded ladies; those are too common now

newspaper delivery person

The book banner who actually read the book will never fill that seat!

School boards and Library boards should require that anyone wanting to ban a book prove that they live in the area, have a library card, and/or have children in the school. They should also require that the person prove they have read the entire book by taking a test on it [similar to tests a teacher might give] and writing an essay on one of the book’s themes [similar to those assigned by a teacher].

not likely

The biggest Carnival Sideshow in the USA is the House of Congress and the House of Representatives. We in Canada have the House of Commons and dumping grounds of political favours The Senate.

Cats are more closely related to Tigers.

“Under 50 that still receives a newspaper”

Just another brilliant piece of work from Wiley.

this one has gotta be a Classic!!!

I filed our income tax on Jan 28 and received a refund 10 days later!

Cheap thrills! Brilliant!

The last one doesn’t exist

Gawkers and geeks

I think those last 2 items would truly be marvels!

I favor burning anything written by everyone’s favorite 20th century tyrants. Purely symbolic, of course. Lots of remaining copies.

As regards 21st century tyrants, just burn them personally.

My parents got two of the large, thick papers delivered on Sundays: the Boston Globe and the Record/American I think it was. Two sports sections and two sets of comics!

How about last comment -“someone who can read!”

I’m late this year. I usually file our taxes in January.

Elephant in the room; those who ban books most likely haven’t read them. At least the current crop, who just go off lists from other Moms against Liberty.

Wiley, don’t you understand that to be a member of Moms for Liberty, you don’t have to read the WHOLE book? You just find a “dirty” word somewhere in the hundreds of pages, and off to the school board meeting you go to complain.

Hard to find a laugh or even a smile these days.

How did they get a cat to stay on that platform?

When the LGBT advocates got Amazon to stop selling “When Harry became Sally” I had to read it. Downloaded it at Barnes and Noble

What? No ’world’s only stripe-less zebra’?

Love the stunned looks. Oh, and the Wiley kids, AND the statue of Mum preparing to dispense pearls of wisdom, from experience …

Clever!

Looking forward to seeing who will be in the last exhibit

Rich! What a great gallery of Wonders. Eat your heart out, P.T. Barnum.

I believe there is a difference between banning a book and removing a book from a school library. That is really what people are talking about at the end of the day. Liberals want to put gay porn in school libraries and remove such books as “To Kill a Mocking Bird” or any of Dr. Suess because of racism or whatever. It if funny how liberals would object to Playboy being in a school library but are okay with books like “All Boys aren’t blue” or “The infinite Moment of Us” being in schools.

Evil takes many forms but groomers will groom.

For that matter: “Book banning advocate who CAN actually read”

Wouldn’t hold my breath on that last one

You’ll never find the last one.

They’ll probably find a REAL Unicorn before they locate that last mythical creature.

I WISH I could file my tax return in January! Unfortunately, I don’t get all the necessary documents to do so until at least mid-February; sometimes not even until mid-March. And lately, it’s not been unusual for tax law to change after January and still affect the current filing season, so filing in January isn’t actually that good of an idea anymore.

Corporations are in for the final blood draw from the nation’s newspapers. Like here in San Diego where I just canceled the Sunday-only edition and also digital. I havethe NY Times digital. The San Diego Union was sold to a corporation that has purchased many failing newspapers. They fired more than half the writers, closed the headquarters, and increased the subscription costs. A final milking before closure.

My best friend in high school was a short giant. I mean, he was still 6’ 4", but that’s fairly short for someone who actually has giantism.

The modern equivelent of Hulbert’s Flea Circus

Book banners exist because someone DID read it.

Maybe Daniel it’s because A. The OP said he used to take the paper so they responded accordingly or B. They know the meaning of the word Ban even if Wiley doesn’t

That won’t happen. These idiot lefty cancellers don’t need facts