Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for February 04, 2024

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    BE THIS GUY  11 months ago

    How about sneaking into people’s beds at night? They will assume they fell asleep reading the books and feel obliged to finish them.

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    BasilBruce  11 months ago

    Among the books being banned are the Bible, because it has words like “adultery” and “d@mnation,” and the Dictionary, because it has all the words of the English language including the bad ones.

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    DanielRyanMulligan1  11 months ago

    OMFG!!!! Looks like books everywhere will to find a way to get revenge on Stephan Pastis for exposing their evil conspiracy this whole time that they had since printing presses were invented in the Middle Ages!!!! Whoa!!!! Dan aka…

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    Bilan  11 months ago

    1984 is one of the books that Texas is banning. Why? it doesn’t mention gays, drag shows or diversity.

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    The dude from FL  Premium Member 11 months ago

    Tsars and dictators etc do that to stifle education. Expect more after 20 Jan 2025

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    sirbadger  11 months ago

    I sort of wish books would do that because I need to catch up on my reading.

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    Johnny Q Premium Member 11 months ago

    The book-banners claim they’re protecting children, but this is really about controlling them…

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    blunebottle  11 months ago

    I would just a soon not had been forced to read the assigned books in high school and college.

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    John Smith  11 months ago

    Would the purple book be considered a book binder?

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    Jeff0811  11 months ago

    All they have to do is get King James, Moffatt and Byington to change the word “adultery” to The Hokey Pokey" and they got it made…. Thou shalt not commit The Hokey Pokey."

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    John Smith  11 months ago

    What’s the point of banning books that Dick and Jane don’t know how to read?

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    iggyman  11 months ago

    That’s some pretty bad books in the last panel, miscreants from the library I’ll bet!

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    herdocow  11 months ago

    The real reason is because it’s dated. It’s too old to be relevant.

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    Keno21  11 months ago

    I think the philosophy is; ‘I refuse to open my mind to facts, reason, or truth, and I DEMAND that everyone else do the same!’

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    Gent  11 months ago

    Walking talking books? Ah they is must be fiction eh.

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    daveoverpar  11 months ago

    No body is banning books.

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    GregerLhd  11 months ago

    That is not 1984, it’s Animal Farm

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    RobinHood  11 months ago

    How do you know you don’t like a book if you haven’t read it?

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    markkahler52  11 months ago

    I still have my copy of Catcher in the Rye. Come pry it from my collection!

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  11 months ago

    Maggot types don’t want anybody to read what they don’t agree with. Re: Censorship in Nazi Germany.

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    SquidGamerGal  11 months ago

    What is wrong with people these days? If you don’t like the book, DO NOT READ IT!!

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    aerotica69  11 months ago

    1974 – the middle school librarian sent a letter to parents stating that Stephen King’s “Carrie” was not appropriate reading for young ladies. Within a week we all had it tucked into our book bags and were reading it in study hall.

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    Tom  11 months ago

    It’s not that liberals are ignorant. It is just that they know so much that isn’t true. >

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    old_geek  11 months ago

    ALERT: TRIGGERING STRIP INCOMING

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    Ellis97  11 months ago

    People ban books because they’re just a bunch of whiny, ignorant, self righteous jerks who have nothing better to do, except complain about everything.

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    Croc Holliday  11 months ago

    Some deluded fools believe books are a bigger threat to schoolkids than are guns.

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    KageKat  11 months ago

    Amazing how two books with no faces can look genuinely disappointed!

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    BadCreaturesBecomeDems  11 months ago

    Goat speaks for the evil liberals and democrats that seek to destroy children so they have them to abuse.

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    smithsilverstrea  11 months ago

    Did they ban Fahrenheit 451 too? (snicker) ;D

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    Goat from PBS  11 months ago

    Because there are books kids should not be reading.

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    BadCreaturesBecomeDems  11 months ago

    All bad things in society begin with a selfish, abusive, and ignorant democrat.

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    T Smith  11 months ago

    Goat has unlocked the conservative mind.

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    wongo  11 months ago

    Book em Dano!

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    Serial Pedant  11 months ago

    Because it prophesied the beginning of another Trump administration.

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    morningglory73 Premium Member 11 months ago

    Book banning should be banned.

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    fjames01  11 months ago

    Making book availability age appropriate is not the same as banning a book. However, if any state is actually really banning a book i would not agree with it.

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    Newenglandah  11 months ago

    Acceptable: I can’t do X because my religion says not to.

    Unacceptable: YOU can’t do X because my religion says not to.

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    wdtabordds  11 months ago

    No one is trying to ban books for adults. Some books, however, are not appropriate for younger children, and thus should not be in elementary school libraries. If parents want their children to have them, Amazon will oblige.

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    bunrabbit99  11 months ago

    exactly, stephan! if people don’t want their kids reading certain books, don’t let them…but don’t take them away from other people’s kids.

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    jfh0555  11 months ago

    I think that was Animal Farm, not 1984

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    SusieB  11 months ago

    That’s my philosophy for many things: don’t like a book don’t read it. Don’t agree with abortion dont have one. Against same sex marriage don’t participate in that.

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    JohnTheFoole  11 months ago

    Ideas. They want make sure that the li’l childs don’t get ideas…..

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    rshive  11 months ago

    Only the nasty books make you read them.

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    oakie817  11 months ago

    i grew up in the great state of RI, and most of the banned books were required freshman high school reading, like 1984…

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    CaveCat87  11 months ago

    I suppose “You can’t judge a book by its cover” would be an understatement by this point.

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    ladykat  11 months ago

    I read what I want to read. If you don’t like it, stay away from my bookcases and my kindle!

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    mike75035  11 months ago

    The objective should merely be to make availability of explicit literature age appropriate.

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    mindjob  11 months ago

    Those books have seen No Country For Old Men

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    mousefumanchu Premium Member 11 months ago

    Animal Farm & 1984 are what we’re becoming. Have you read them? Do you remember?

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    Larry S  11 months ago

    If you can buy it, it ain’t banned. Some books are inappropriate for children. I would describe the content here but I would be censored. Ironic, huh?

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    Otis Rufus Driftwood  11 months ago

    Goat has a point. Pastis has to end it weird though.

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    withaG43  11 months ago

    What people don’t seem to understand or perhaps want to understand is that most childeren don’t learn about things like homosexuality and other sexual things from reading about it. They hear and observe adults talking (including their parents), or talk to their equally misinformed peers. I’m 81 years old and can remember hearing about “h0m0s” (usually as a pejorative) etc. when I was in elememtary school which was well before any of the current books under discussion now were even written.

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    Count Olaf Premium Member 11 months ago

    Kind of like school where the teachers make a book reading assignment but you can’t force the kids to read it. That’s why God invented Cliff’s Notes (before the internet, of course).

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    mwksix  11 months ago

    The books do need a new plan. Clearly they’re losing!

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    zeexenon  11 months ago

    The master plan is all detailed in Mein Kampf.

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    Thomas Scott Roberts creator 11 months ago

    Goat is idealistic, but idealistic solutions mean nothing to reactionaries. The problem is that the banners are afraid of ideas that they fear getting into other people’s head- kids’ heads especially. They really, truly, naively and foolishly believe that they can make the bogeymen they fear go away if no one ever hears or reads about them.

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    mfrasca  11 months ago

    In Tamika Flynn’s hands, books become lethal weapons.

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    dimndno  11 months ago

    Some books have content the controlling powers don’t you to see so they are banned. Do we need to ban computers too?

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    marilynnbyerly  11 months ago

    Books are culled from libraries all the time to make room for other books. Sad, but true.

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    Zebrastripes  11 months ago

    Freedom of speech,

    freedom of the press

    All you loons nuts and whack jobs could shove it

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    happyinvenice23  11 months ago

    Sounds like one of trumps school chums nut job Ron desatines at work again!

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    bergerronald Premium Member 11 months ago

    Unfortunately, this only represents an incomplete picture of the story. I don’t support banning books, but I do support not having some material available for children without controls over the age of access.

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    dontcare1911  11 months ago

    Book bans, proof that new idiots are being born all the time.

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    Robert Miller Premium Member 11 months ago

    People still read books? Wow!

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    wildlandwaters  11 months ago

    A-HA!! Just as I thought!!

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    jim_duprey  11 months ago

    Can we ban ‘Art Of The Deal’?

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    Cameron1988 Premium Member 11 months ago

    I hear that Floridumb is now banning the Colgate Dictionaries. The governor really wants the residents to forever remain ignorant

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    pamela welch Premium Member 11 months ago

    LOLOL — Good one Stephan!

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    minty_Joe  11 months ago

    While I am against banning books from public access, I do believe that there are a select number of books we should take a more active approach in parental guidance. Any book I read through (before my kids get their hands on it) will be checked for appropriateness. If something is questionable, yet being assigned as part of the literary curriculum, I will at least sit down with my kids and guide them through the comprehension. I am more concerned that the kid isn’t deeply disturbed or traumatized by what they take in. But if they are aware it’s just a book and doesn’t reflect their own personal beliefs, I’ll be at least assured reading something won’t lead them to influence bad behavior.

    Again, maybe I’m just jumping to conclusions too soon. We don’t give our own kids the credit to their intelligence and conscience they have. I’m still amazed at their wisdom, which far exceeds us older folks.

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    Colonel B  11 months ago

    Not at my house lately…..

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    jamie  11 months ago

    “They” are not “banning” books. “They” are removing inappropriate materials from school libraries. If you want your children to be able to read such material, go to your local public library to check such materials out. If the public library doesn’t have what you are looking for, request an Inter-Library-Loan. If the public library refuses, get on Amazon and order it yourself. Geeze, use your brains for once!

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    Andrew Bosch Premium Member 11 months ago

    Fahrenheit 451

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    DaBump Premium Member 11 months ago

    Sheer nonsense, but that does make it amusing.

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    Scott S  11 months ago

    In our elementary school the library had PT 109: An American Epic of War, Survival, and the Destiny of John F. Kennedy (PT-109 for short).

    They had the copies behind the check-out desk & you needed a note from your parents to check it out.

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    wordsmeet  11 months ago

    Banning books is uncomfortably but not surprisingly close to burning books.

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    Let’s send Ron De Santis and Jim Abbott to the knackers.

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    Eric S   11 months ago

    “How to make bombs” “How to torture other people” “hot to kill someone and get away with it” “subplots of any Stephen King book involving minors and adult situations” ..yeah, those books SHOULD be banned, as well as anything promoting child perversions, sexual situations (IT, Ritual of Chud) etc etc.

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    Swirls Before Pine  11 months ago

    Only state officials that listen to the idiots.

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    alantain  10 months ago

    People never learn, do they? Has banning books ever really accomplished anything?

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