Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 17, 2014

Stephan, are you sure that you used to be a lawyer and not a psychologist?

I remember when this strip was the funniest, edgiest thing on the comics page. I petitioned our local paper to start carrying it. Now it’s just another Garfield.

Considering that we’re starting an election year, thinking is not going to be too common.

Or as funny.

Lemming Existentialism was born in death. What does it matter?

He flung them over that cliff, by proposing personal responsibility superior to ruling party authority, for the sake of his documentary on lemmings.

Need more Crocs.

Did you know that Esquimaux have over 5,000 words for “Lemmings don’t commit suicide”?

JUMP!

Rather difficult for only one lemming to reproduce.

Paul Tillich, an existential philosopher who wrote, “The Courage to Be” would be disappointed by the other lemmings decision to jump off the cliff.

There’d be an over population of lemmings if they ever thought for themselves.

Follow them.

That happened in an earlier strip.

So…most voters are lemmings…

I wonder if Stephan was inspired by that famous Far Side cartoon of the lemming with the life preserver.

some, will stop for a moment and think…and others will do what ever.

It’d be funnier if the crocs or the land shark were waiting at the bottom of the cliff…

just like the (insert political party of your choice) rather death and denial than thinking :)

These are the people who voted for Obama. Twice. They should have all jumped instead.

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Hm, so they’d rather die than think for themselves. How about that? Some humans are actually lemmings.