Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 04, 2014

Goat is probably thinking the same thing of Rat.

The only thing smart about Rat is his phone.:Long live the hippie yahoos!

I’m grateful for the little things too. Like my iPod, my tablet, and my cell phone.

I’m grateful for the little things too….Like the amount of sense this strip made…..

Rat has attained Happiness! Too bad, Goat (though I’m not sure I’d call you, of all the PBS characters, a “hippie yahoo”)….

Those of us who survived the 60s are now IN our 60"s. (**it happens, and somebody cleans it up.)

I am grateful that Rat is only a comic character otherwise I might have put up with his political commercials when he runs for President.

@several people—What happened to the 1960s? “It was the worst of times, it was the best of times. It was a season of darkness, it was a season of light.” I’m aware that Charles Dickens wrote that about the French Revolution, but I can’t think of a better way to describe the years between 1960 and 1969!

there was a young guy named Sidneywho drank and drank and ruined a kidney,but he had his fun doing it, didn’t he?

I think CNN is repeating the series (again) next week.

I’m grateful for Pastis and Wiley. And Watterson.

That’s one point of view. Another is that reactionary rats are the reason. And who says the country is declining? The only constant is change and we’re changing rapidly but who says that the future won’t be better and brighter? You? And why should we take your word as authority? Some might say that the 50s were the period of this country’s worst decline; McCarthyism and a white male world that excluded diversity and positive change and a racism that was so toxic as to be pitiful and shameful. Growth can be painful and hard but an old fart like me sees as much evidence for that as for decline. It’s all opinions, you have yours, I have mine and neither are the last word or “fact.”

Rat does not know how to appreciate anything.

Not in the real sense of the word.

xxx

He is so impervious to logic, I wonder what he is smoking.

Hippie yahoos?Man, the strip has been giving out brilliant names lately, and I’m not being sarcastic.

Yeah…..I wasn’t done with them yet.

drat… I can’t drink coffee.