start the day with a non sequitur smile
i'm not a particular yahoo fan. i started yahoo email early because it was free and bill gates didn't own it. but i'll always pick google for a search and most everything else i can think of. one exception: my 'my yahoo' homepage which allows me to start the morning with 3 cartoons. my perhaps predictable personal choice: doonesbury, non-sequitur, and pat oliphant. to varying degrees all three allow me to smile in the face of the real world by mixing whimsey and a point of view. doonesbury, in particular, regularly teaches me. the current series taught me about a concrete result of bush’s war - aphasia and tbi [traumatic brain injury] in iraq veterans before i knew much about it. [check out Veterans Affairs: About Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Brain Injury in Iraq’s War Veterans if you want the in-depth course.]
for this particular Sunday its non sequitur which made me chuckle as you see above.

today's latest from one of my favorite comics non sequitur. the artist hates lawyers but uses a bit of lawyer-like latin joke for his title. i have him on my 'my yahoo' page along with doonesbury to start even the worst day with a knowing smile.

visiting the official non sequitur home page will give you a larger version of the cartoon [in case you can't read it here] and some good comments. one of the better ones:

take away the insects and in 50 years the earth dies. take away the humans and in 50 years the earth flourishes

wiley, the cartoonist, has some words himself.

my response to this and many other non sequitur cartoons: a sense of irony is necessary to respond to life as lived by humans. it is a nonsequitur - it does not follow.