Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 07, 2019

Maybe the second half of the year.

Only 7 days old; you lose, Pig.

Trump’s still in office and Republicans control the Senate and Supreme Court. Sorry.

It’s always “hoping this is the year” no matter what.

Me too, Pig.

It is supposed to be the year of the pig/boar, very soon…

I resolve not to make any New Year’s resolutions.

(You should see my bucket list. The only item on it so far is “check out the price of buckets”.)

There’s always next year. At least there has been in the past.

Maybe next year?

To Pig, and everyone else – This is all on you! Live in the present. Live in your own world! Choose Happy! Change your mindset!

This first week of Pearls of the new year have been kinda depressing. Can’t help wondering what was up w/ Stephan while he was working

Do not expect the immantanization of the eschaton, Pig.

Pig for you there will always be a Baba Yaga or a Debbie downer :-(

I’m reasonably certain that there hasn’t been a year in human history (or prehistory) when bad things weren’t happening.

Bad things have always happened in the world regardless of who seems to be in control of American politics. If you want a better world, make yourself a better person.

Not likely…

I doubt I will worry less, but I intend to limit the things I worry about to (mostly just) me.

1 word: MUELLER!

Worry isn’t about bad things happening, it’s about thinking about the bad things that might happen.

For this to work, Pig’s going to need a memory wipe, even if the world becomes all sunny days with rainbows and unicorns.

I’ll cry for you Pig.

Hahaha,nice comments,and guess who’s not coming back this year too?

You cannot change the world, only your reaction to it.

Little chance of that, Pig.

Sadly, Pig. That’s never going to happen……….

Actually, Pig, your empathy and kindness make the world a slightly better place. Keep it up.

Bad things happen every day so stop worrying about the things you can’t change and learn to live with them.

Anonymous:The quality of this strip has gone down hill for quite a while now. Your depression is getting the best of you. To relieve that, make funny and give all we poor souls a good laugh. You used to do hilarious strips: continuing story lines (no more), the Crocs (the best and funniest – no more),Jeff the cyclist (outrageous-no more). I could go on…….Try to retrieve your funny bone, for yourself and the readers.

We can only hope, Pig.

And the Demoncrats will do as they always do, make a bunch of empty promises and do absolutely nothing! Zappa called them flakes!

Sorry,my friend, this ain’t even the century!

Nathan Hale’s first try: I regret I have only asterisk for my country.

Don’t worry about the things you have no control over, stop watching the dang national and international news, and do something good for those around you. You’ll be much happier.

I am going to stop reading this strip. All of you republican or democrat IDIOTS can’t enjoy the strip without ruining it with your assinine opinions on politics. None of you are going to be happy 2019.

Sorry, Pig, that will never happen. If it’s not a man-made disaster it’s a natural one!

There Will Come Soft Rains

Sara Teasdale, 1884 – 1933

(War Time)

There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground,

And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;

And frogs in the pools singing at night,

And wild plum trees in tremulous white,

Robins will wear their feathery fire

Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;

And not one will know of the war, not one

Will care at last when it is done.

Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree

If mankind perished utterly;

And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn,

Would scarcely know that we were gone.

86 comments! (87 when I post this.) I think that’s a new record!Also, 44 replies to one comment, but I’m afraid that won’t beat the great Garfield reply fiasco of 2004. (426 replies to one comment.)

Okay, getting real tired of Pearls whining about how terrible the world is week after week. We get it, the world sucks. Talk about something else, huh?

Give up, Pig. You lose. We lose. C’est la vie!

I will row that boat with you Pig.

It wasn’t.

thank the lord pig dosent know about 2020 yet

“provided the world isn’t worse next year”next year=2020HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhaha sob sob sob