Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 19, 2015

Oh, great. Jef the cyclist Victor the vegan has a rival who also has a rival! What’s next: Amos the Amish?

Is Goat there so that there would be at least one person listening?

Now there’s a cage fight I would gladly buy a ticket to see.

And why do the bicyclists think it’s OK to run stop signs and red lights?

So funny! SoCal is full of folks like that…Me, I guess I’m more like Rat.

Self-righteousness will eat itself.

Conference organizers were asking for trouble.

hah….I use a battery operated lawnmower…..

Gotta love the self-righteousnous that misses the fact that… actually…

Actually I’m going to shut up. The electric vehicle, in some parts of California, is more carbon neutral on a short→medium term basis than walking or cycling. (Some parts are pretty much 100% solar these days.)

The amount of energy that goes into even vegan food is so much more, that feeding your body to power it to do the walking is less efficient.

The short term v. long term depends on health. If you eat little enough and don’t get fat, then you really have saved the food energy. But if you don’t get enough exercise, you do risk tying up lots of very non-carbon neutral medicine. (And we could bring out food back down if we were smart enough about it.)

So I’m still in favour of “electric car guy being shortsighted” but its not as cut and dried as we wish it were.

Hum, Mr Pastis must read the comments section on “Go Comics” because this conference is just like reading the comments at times. This one says this and that one says that. This one is right and that one is wrong………….a mirror perhaps…..of ourselves.

Jeff tops Ernest as not only is his vehicle of choice green, it’s also exercise. Victor is a looser hypocritic pure and simple.

Pastis forgot “Gloria the Gluten Free” and “Larry the Localvore”

but religon wars are even worse…Gods against Gods!?

@WoodEye

Cyclist here. It depends on what you mean by "running lights and stop signs. If you mean full-on ignoring they even exist, those guys are jerks who give all cyclists a bad name.

If you mean cyclists who slow way down but don’t quite stop or put a foot down, it’s is because most of us have our shoes clipped to our pedals. “Clipping-out” is easy but “clipping-in” is a bit of a PITA, especially when you have cars impatiently waiting for you to get out of their way. Maintaining even a half MPH of speed helps everyone get moving smoothly and quickly.

Now pardon me while I carb load and then get into my Spandex; I’ve got a 55 mile ride at 9am. ;-)

Never had the misfortune of running into a self-righteous sort.

As for myself, I wouldn’t predict anything…which is precisely the problem. A wolf is a wild animal and will always be wild, regardless of how long it’s been held captive by humans.

Ah, Stephan self reflective cartoon of the self righteous cartoonist.

I thought WrestleMania was already a few weeks ago…..

I love how a strip like this makes me feel self-righteous about being none of the featured characters!

Those people who think that they are the only ones that are right, really P.O. those of us who really are always right.

He un-died.

alas, there are so few of us perfect people left (grin)ttfn

I love all these comments about how everyone thinks they are better than me.You’re delusional, and here’s my digital footprint in your face.;-)

Looks like the upcoming elections.

This is obviously the most stupidest thing Rat has ever done.

Oh but it’s hilarious too!

xxx

Talk about self-righteous – my guess is that the convention would be chock FULL of religious people!!!!!

If these sanctimonious people were canines, would they eat ken-l-ration?

Apparently there are things even a bear can’t digest.

I am so glad never to have attended the Conference of the Self-Righteous that I’m feeling self-righteous about it….

And of course there’s also cases like Bart the Bear, an Alaskan Kodiak bear who was also a Hollywood actor… …and Brutus the bear, a Grizzly, although to be fair Brutus was born in captivity (not sure about Bart).

I’m surprised Pastis got away with that use of profanity in the fifth panel (not counting the sign).

Have a carbon footprint to the face best line ever

This of you who think they know everything are annoying to those of us who do.

Why are there no religious people at this conference? They’re the most entertaining.

Hey, with the electric vehicle fanatic, the cycle leads back to Jef the Cyclist.“Did any of you bike here?!”It’s the never-ending cycle of self-righteousness!

I like the alliterative names. Jef the cyclist should have one, though.

How about Sammy the SJW?

Jef grew his flesh back! Surprising…

Wouldn’t Jef and Ernest get along? Nether of them use electricity.

It looks like victor the vegan is fat.

(Not that vegans are fat)

I would actually pay money to watch the groups in this strip try to kick the ever-loving snot out of each other. Not to mention those belonging to more than one group (vegan cyclists, for instance) kicking themselves in their own heads.

Ach, the Nac Mac Feegle Syndrome….

Why does a cyclist need an electric car?