Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 05, 2017

Rat has a compass from 1973.

When Rat says, “Thanks, little compass,” is he talking to the thing in his hand or… something else?

Rat has ethics??

You sure it isn’t an immoral compass, Rat?

I’ll take an ethical man over a moral one…any time.

Not in public Rat!

Consult it again, and it says ‘All signs point to YES!’.

Trust your heart — but if your heart lies to you go with your gut. If your gut lies to you, we’re outta solutions

I can’t see why Rat has an ethical delima, he of course is always going to do the opposite of acceptable social norms. Thus Rat lives up to his name.

You know you’ve got it if it makes you feel good.

Is little moral compass isn’t the only thing that’s little on Rat!

Well, Goat, my little grammar-Nazi compass is directing me to tell you, “I forgot to whom I was speaking.”

Of course.

xxx

Since when does Goat swing beer?

I had no idea Rat was old enough to be a hippie, or even a hippie-throwback! He’s so well preserved!

(Or, we could turn our glance, accusingly, to Cartoon-Boy….)

Rat has ethical dilemmas??

Does it point north?