Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 12, 2016

So businesses are run by adults, but not grown-ups?

Trump is a born leader..I’m using the word “leader” here in the sense of definition #20 in the Oxford English Dictionary, which in simple terms is “the piece of blank tape at the beginning of a cassette that you can’t record anything on”.

daDoctah I just love your definition of a “leader” Thanks for the smile

Ahh, but those companies have things that you don’t Danae, like responsibifffphtth-ha-HAAAAA-ha-ha… sorry, I mean hyooooge gobs o’ dough.

“I take full responsibility.” What does that mean? Nothing ever happens!

Most parents want/hope their kids to grow into morally fulifilled and law abiding adults. Poor Joe weeps for the day Danae becomes an adult rather than acting the part.

Nothing’s my fault. Kind of like the death of Seth Rich, the hacked email server, Benghazi. Which Presidential candidate are we talking about again?

Danae, big business gets away with it because they are bigand might makes right.

not my fault is the rallying cry the X generation today.drink too much. its the distillery company’s fault. sue themGet lung cancer for smoking too many cigarettes. not my fault (even though we have been warned by thousands others that its bad for you). sue the tobacco companies . spill coffee in my lap while driving, not my fault sue McDonaldsI see all the time people throwing garbage on the ground and walk away no person no obligations

Me? I just think this particular edition of the strip is funny. I go here to get away from politics. Thank you very much.

I think her role model is HRC.

People are corporations, my friend. Oh wait…

Reminds me of the dump trucks on the road. Stay back 200 feet. Not responsible for broken windshields.

Y’all are missing the point. Legally, the signs don’t mean shit, unless the injured party waives their right to bring litigation. The sign is there to discourage the foolish.A better sign would be “I have a multi-million dollar contingency fund that says I will win any suit brought against me.” Much, MUCH more discouraging.

Here in CT when there is roadwork, the state puts up signs that say, "Road Under Construction. State Liability Limited. Pass at Your Own Risk.’’ And per a NYT article I found circa 1989, that does indeed let them sidestep any responsibility.

More like an Obama sign.

its akin to when people think they can park anywhere if the hazard lights are on

“I take full responsibility” = “All of the profits; none of the blame”…

How is this any different than government?

For some reason, this cartoon reminds me of Pacific Gas & Electric, where to this day, nobody is responsible for the rupture of the San Bruno Gas Transmission Pipeline that ruptured and blew up in September of 2010, killing 8 people and destroying some 17 homes.

“Not my fault” has been legally embodied in the LLC, the Limited Liability Corporation. /The name says it all. Invented by the Thatcher regime, then gleefully imported by the Reaganistas.

Several years ago, when we were moving between states, we hired a moving company. The rep insisted we would be stupid (her word) not to buy insurance, so we did. The movers then proceeded to (unintentionally, but while we were watching) roll three boxes down a flight of stairs onto a concrete patio. Wrecked our laser printer, smashed a wedding present bowl, nothing else really damaged.

So we filed a claim, with photos of the damage and all. The evil scumbags refused to pay. I copied the next letter to the rep who sold us the insurance (including her name and the quote about us being stupid if we didn’t buy insurance), and at the bottom “cc’d” the name of a friend who was a lawyer. (The friend never knew about it, but all’s fair when you’re dealing with evil scumbags.)

They settled up immediately, sending a check, along with a statement that it was just a “goodwill gesture” and not any admission of fault on their part. SO they could claim they had never ever done anything wrong.

But I still posted this story on a website about similar crap from that company.

Your thighs don’t make great cupholders for hot coffee, texting while driving isn’t the car’s fault when you hit the guy ahead of you, even if his throttle got stuck and he hit the tree first. The mix of “not my fault” goes back a long way and crosses many twists of logic. “Family Circus” long ago noted “who me?” As rationale for Darwin Award practice sessions, for becoming “adults”.

Then of course, hundreds of lies told by many folks in one man’s administration to start two major wars, the longest in American history, with the least cause to start them, wasn’t “his fault”, because being second generation in the job, it wasn’t his fault. Hmm, playing war games for real, adult or childish in the extreme?

My parents had a pool put in their last house. They were required by law to double gate it, with the outside gate have the latch to high for a child to reach (obviously the person who made THAT requirement didn’t have kids!) and put up a PURCHASED sign that read “DANGER pool! No children allowed”! And THAT absolved them of any liability if any neighbor’s kids took it into their heads to disobey the sign. Even my parents thought it was dumb. But, hey, it’s what you have to do.

nice delivery, but Sparky had Lucy do that once in a Peanuts sequence sometime back in the 60s, I think. :)

on the other hand, the fact that so little has changed in 50 years such that the idea is still funny? well, there’s that.

Occasionally, you are pretty close to spot on. Not often, but occasionally, Your artwork and wit does help make up for it though.

Noted.

That is the funny thing about interpretations. Harmless until something is read into it that is not really there. Danae is innocently seeing what is really there; but the maker is saying something different. Takes an education sometimes to figure out what is a lie and what is whatever.

Add “Blame the messenger” to that and you have Hillary’s entire campaign strategy.