Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 05, 2018

Don’t send it to Washington.

Well there’s probably a brick wall nearby – Pig might as well verbally communicate that letter to it – that’s probably the most he’d get for a response.

This strip is almost like a small role-reversal version of this one: https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2010/7/4

I have so long wanted to post a letter like that. And nothing to do with politics, just life.

Washington D.C. is normal. The outsiders send in the Clowns…

To the almighty.

Yeah, let’s go back to the good old days of normalcy….. say 1968

Most appropriate place is the DEAD LETTER OFFICE!

Send it to a Nigerian prince. Turnabout is fair play.

Send it to Mueller, ask him to hurry

Didn’t Frank Sinatra sing about it? That’s life, ridin high April, shot down in May, June, july

Doesn’t matter where you send it. It’s just going to be round filed.

There was a place that took them. But they got closed down.

Send it to your past, back when you could have done something about it but did nothing.

To Mars

YOU TAKE IT TO YOUR VOTING BOOTH, EACH AND EVERY TIME IT IS OPEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nothing else you do will matter. Voting is everything, and don’t give me the old line about “voters decide nothing, those who count the votes decide”. So far, we live in a society where there are checks and balances on those ballots, namely they are guarded by representatives from each party with a dog in the fight. But, failure to vote NOW, might create a situation where that is no longer the case.

You might as well rip it up and go ahead and “shake hands with the devil” Pig. Accepting the reality of things is the first step.

Amazing how Trump is the most important thing in so many people’s lives.

Time Life Inc. is in Virginia, but I don’t think they publish Life anymore.

Voters booth… church pew.. Neither will work but perhaps you will feel better while you wait.

“You must be the change you want to see in the world.” Mahatma Ghandi.

The older I get the more I realize that normal and boring is a good thing. Beats the heck out of upheaval and people you love being ill and dying. The universe won’t listen to your request for normal, but you should enjoy it when it’s happening.

Abnormal is the new normal. If everyone else is crazy and you are not, you are crazy and they are sane.

Send it to the Cloud Pig……with any luck it will get hacked and go viral.

It comes under note to self. Get off your ass and do something about it.

“The moving finger writes, and having writ, moves on….”

I’ve found that “normal” tends to change with age. What was normal for me at age 20 is definitely not normal at 59.

Send it to Stephen, he can write the strip to your liking.

It seems everyone is unhappy today—but for different reasons. My advice is stop obsessing over things you cannot control (such as Washington DC and all the idiocy that goes on between BOTH parties) and focus on what you CAN change or improve in your own family and community.

It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it

Boy, does this strike a nerve. I want my old life back.

https://funds.gofundme.com/dashboard/ptazh-help-me-get-my-life-back/

Two weeks ago, my oldest nephew died and this cartoon has summed how I’ve felt since then. I think there might be more than a few people who might be reading and reacting to this strip in the same way.

That’s one for the Circular File, Pig. Get real!

Step one: get a TARDIS. Step two: Use it to send the letter to the life you once knew. Step three: cause a time paradox. Step four: Cause reapers to destroy us all. At least we would never have to go through with the past three years.

Same punchline as https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2010/7/4

May 2020 … Yup.

This should be for 2020-21.