Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 01, 2019

That’s what happens to inconsiderate people who decide to drown on days the commission isn’t meeting.

I’m still pondering how the laundry detergent could be rising.

Superman would fly down and grab him, and leave his foot in the rocks. Still better!!

On a ride with rubber rafts, a raft flipped over. The park employees had been trained to tell people not to rescue people but wait for the rescue crew to get there. A woman drowned while waiting.

Damned, another victim of the bureaucracy.

The Coastal Commission was helpless as the swimmer was a non-native species and in order to get approval to act, they needed an act of Congress.

Due to all of the members of Congress needed to form a forum were on the campaign trail, no act of Congress could be made. The deceased family was sent a Haz-Mat clean up invoice approved by Congress through proxy votes.

Thinkyman flies. But his thoughts are going nowhere

A rising tide is nothing to cheer about…

Sounds like Pastis is a fan of absolute dictators.

That is why I like our pool at home : No Rocks or Critters ! …. Croc Power!

Rat isn’t exactly drowning in sympathy here!

More Time/Tide Racism! OMG!

I’ve been accused of tending to over think problems, and sometimes it’s true, but I’ve also spent a lot of time fixing things done by “Rush to to something-anything man/woman”. I wonder if Pig could do some cartoons about him/her.

For immediate emergencies, Thinky Man might not be your best bet. Fortunately, most of our real issues are not immediate emergencies and require some thought. Play to your strengths.

All fun aside, ever been in a building with a fire alarm going off and several (I’d say about 6 or 7) people standing in front of a fire exit door, debating whether they should go through it because the alarm (never mind the other one that’s already going off) might go off? It’s not like the alarm and the door were… oh, I don’t know… made exactly for that situation or anything. “We should discuss this. We must have time… Gasp! That man just shoved me aside and opened the door! And he didn’t even consult any off us! How rude! And now he’s yelling at us to get out!” Not too far off the mark and yes, as it turned out the building was on fire. People are definitely dumb enough to kill you and most especially in groups.

And don’t dare do anything without the congressional blue-ribbon commission

He needed a rope and they threw him red tape.

What a quacked up situation!

The wheels of government grind slowly. The tide, not so much.

Thinkyman was “Technically correct, the best kind of correct.” As the person had not filed a QZ-42-D permission to rescue form prior to getting his foot stuck.

Government.

Reminds me that one recurring theme of successful ‘capes’ is the vigilante accusation. Primarily Batman, and the tacit theme of Marvel’s Civil War

This strip seems a bit too sophisticated for Pig.

Fear of rising tide is just a hoax. I’ve been to the beach myself and seen that the water level was actually doing down, leaving wet sand behind. Valuable extra land being created. We could build an oil rig there!

The coastal commission can’t act until it has received an environmental impact statement and reviewed it at the public forum.

No man is an island ;)

Luckily, the moron was a Libertarian.

Bureaucracy wins!

What would actually happen today is. “Help my shoe lace is caught in my bicycle chain”, so the quick thinkers of today will save the person by hacking their leg off.

A rising tide floats all bloats!

Pig writes such thoughtful, cheery comics! —Unlike Cartoon-Boy….

I don’t suppose any of you remember how rushed we were to invade Iraq after 9/11?

GOP: “He shouldna hadn’t oughta got his foot stuck. All his fault.”

DEM: “We must do something to make the tide safer for all.”

“Thinkyman! Are you pondering what I’m pondering?”

“I think so, Ponderer. But a bowl of mashed potatoes would make a better superhero than we are.”