Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 28, 2014

Try having happy thoughts involving stewardesses, Rat.

Maybe that’s the whole point of this cartoon! A guy practices Transcendental Mediation, and from the left — the sinister direction — comes Baphomet!

Or maybe that’s reading too much into a one-off cartoon strip about talking animals.

I think you mean his home was re-possessed.

Let’s be clear that, regardless of what You think about TM, Rat did not say he was practicing transcendental meditation. There are many forms of it including ancient Christian forms going back to the desert fathers of the fourth century. I frankly don’t care what form of meditation Rat practices because he’s a comic strip character.

The mind has a lot more power than most of us think it does, how do we think computers and smart phones came into being ?

Fight and flight.

I meditate on the bus going to work every morning. It involves closing my eyes a thinking about my workday, TV, the NFL and hoping that crazy people(Nabu-ish) will think that I’m asleep or crazier than them and leave me be. I’m certain that Nabu doesn’t take the bus though. Angel’s probably fly him in.

meditation has nothing to do with thinking happy thoughts

airlines are cramming us in as sardines.

The idea is to relax and get away from worldly concerns, Rat, not to get all worked up in feverish fantasies of retribution against boorish fliers….

For once I agree with rat.

I will always recline my seat the people who complain are usually obese

Don’t blame the person who reclines their seat! Blame the airlines for making the seats too close together (reclining was no problem back in the good flying days).

One persons Pleasure is anothers Pain!

My happy thought is Rat getting trapped in a rat trap.

xxx

That’s up there with his claiming that Al Gore stole one of his ideas from one of the “books” he (Nab) wrote.

happy thoughts involving stewardesses

The only issue (didn’t say problem, exactly), is that half the stewardesses are my wife’s age. Why dream about coffee, tea or me, when you can have the cow for free? Or something like that.

The idea of deling with people who recline their seats on airplanes fills me with a sense of inner peace…