Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for August 05, 2020

The cure isn’t reading. The cure is what you read.

For “social media” addicts, start with Dick and Jane.

Stupidity and ignorance are NOT the same thing. Though they do look similar from the outside. Reading cures ignorance, not stupidity. Nothing cures stupid.

«À quel point les Américains sont-ils stupides? par Emmanuel Macron

I could swear Goat already made a similar joke not terribly long ago. But thanks, Rat, I’m sure everyone will listen to you and read the Twilight books and become geniuses.

Wow, Rat with a good intelligent take. What is the world coming to?

like most TV news watching isn’t learning, it’s brain washing

I had come across “it’s called writing”. Now I’ve come across “it’s called reading” too.

The irony of the harbinger of the plague discovering a vaccine for something.

Reading fiction can help improve empathy, and develop a stronger vocabulary. So reading nonfiction isn’t the only “cure” for stupidity.

Like anything else, your attitude determines if what you are reading is beneficial to you or not.

Surprised Rat was not holding a smart phone instead of a book. As much reading as talking goes on with those things ! … Croc Power !

Reading the most printed book isn’t helping with rampant stupidity, with most it’s boosting the plague.

Since it’s Rat, Pig doesn’t read too much into it.

But comics make it better!

I posted this strip to my facebook page. And, yes, I’m aware of the irony.

there’s enough stupidity to go around for everyone these days……….

I’ve been an avid reader practically my entire life. I’ve read everything from Shelley and Keats to Asimov and Clarke and most anything in between. I’ve even read the Bible a couple of times. (No, I don’t go to church.) As a result, I’m neither republican nor democrat, liberal or conservative.

I can equally anger people on both sides of the aisle!

Reading is fundamental to seeing through the fog of political conniving.

Shouldn’t Rat’s part be played by Goat today? Those lines would be more believable delivered by him.

The internet provides us with access to previously unimaginable amounts of information, in every field of academic study, news feeds from around the world, scientific publications, opinion pieces, literature of all sorts. And despite that, I see no signs that ignorance is decreasing. If we create a new metric, calculating how much we could know divided by how much we do know, let’s call it the GIQ, for Gross Ignorance Quotient, that’s increasing exponentially.

Depends on what you read. Not all books were created equal, and the internet, forget it.

Ive be come increasingly good at acoiding the noise. Comics are a mainstay, but things can still sneak through

I once permanently deleted FB, but later re-upped. This time I’m not going to go through all the bother.

Alice in La La land

Be glad Rat is getting wiser.

Most people seem to be lacking in critical thinking skills!

People tell you to read and to vote, but they don’t tell you what or how!

That’s very obvious. Look at the idiots running around running in to poles and walls. DUH!!!

Stupidity is not the same as ignorance. Ignorance is not knowing. Stupidity is not caring.

I believe young people are reading the Communist Manifesto and are taught that it is a “kinder, gentler” form of government.

A while back I’m pretty sure Rat ridiculed a book group because they had nothing better to do with their time than read.

I’d read too, but I don’t have any books to read.

I always read every night, but after “Mein Kampf” a few years ago, “The Holy Bible” a little more recently, then “The Mueller Report” just last year, I am GREATLY enjoying the Harry Potter books! I may be a 32 year old man, but D*MN ARE THEY GOOD!!!XD

I’m going to just scroll down to the bottom to comment without bothering to see how many hate addicts posted because of this one…

Twitter even more so.

Pig being very piggy, and Rat at his acerbic best.

It’s discomfiting, in truth….

Good one Rat. You gotta love the rodent.

A vaccine for stupidity is a treatment for COVID.