Word: sequiturs
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...heights, “Shady Business” achieves the anything-for-a-laugh lunacy that sends a production skipping merrily over credibility gaps. The appearance of a refugee from “The Oresteia” at the end is a delightful non-sequitur that gets laughs for its sheer randomness, as does the argument that breaks out over who is the main character. In fact, Wan portrays Wanda with a similar flair, acting in an affected way that bears very little relation to any sort of reality, but is over-the-top enough to steal any scene she?...
...reads one panel. When a shuffling sound comes from behind them they turn to see "the undead" rising from their graves. Rather than linger on this classic horror set-up Huizenga instead abruptly shifts the scene to bison on the plains. Though at first taken as a visual non sequitur, this peculiar juxtaposition signals one of Huizenga's curious shifts in time...
...This non sequitur, delivered by one of Alex’s degenerate friends, was so powerful it almost made us soil our pants...
...Democrats picked a candidate singularly weak on Iraq. Kerry reflected precisely their own ambivalence. He could never articulate a consistent and coherent alternative policy. The entire Democratic Convention was an exercise in avoiding the issue. Kerry spent four days talking not about Iraq but about Vietnam. This glaring non sequitur gave Kerry the distinction of having a convention with no bounce. Even worse, by gratuitously bringing up Vietnam, a still bleeding psychic wound, Kerry opened himself to weeks of politically damaging attack from embittered fellow swift-boat veterans...
...realize this might be playing devil’s advocate. Responding to “the Patriot Act infringes on civil liberties” by saying “40,000 children die every day of malnutrition” is at best a non-sequitur and at worst dangerous and trivializing. For every injustice, there will always be something greater, and ranking them on a scale of acceptable moral outrage is nearly meaningless. Just because our standard of living is astronomically high compared to 86 percent of the world doesn’t mean that we can?...