Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for September 27, 2019

Truly presidential material.

Too true Goat.

As far as I can tell, the Universe stretches equally far from me in every direction. This justifies my belief that I am the centre of the Universe.

I hope the Crocs don’t find out about this, but today is Google’s birthday.

Well, he’s only following the Rat-O-Centric theory of the universe! It’s yet another tail told by an idiot!

….and the Goats, sipping on their herbal tea, will tell the rest us what to think about it, boring us to tears!

Rats do reproduce frequently.

Somehow, it’s heartening to see Rat swallowed up by the “earth”!

Don’t you know who I am!!?!?

The world revolves around the ice caps. The ice caps are cold, isolated and ignored by most people. Actually is a good description of Rat!

Rat when you are inside how do you know what is happening on the outside ? …. Croc Power !

There you go again with that “the earth is round” propaganda! Everyone knows it’s flat and resting on a giant turtles back.

There is so much I could do with this, especially given someone who is currently at the center of media attention, but I’ll resist temptation.

That would be the world ROTATING around him…

Better than being a flat earther…he’d fall flat on his face….poor poor RAT!

so… rat is taking a big sit on the world..whats new…

For the world to revolve around Rat he would need to be sitting inside the sun, not the earth. It’s a bit warm there so he might want to rethink things.

Gives “Rotten to the core” a whole new meaning.

Goat should start spinning that globe as fast was possible, leaving Rat too dizzy to think!

I would print this out to hang on my cube wall, but everyone around me would think it was about them.

I, for one, know the world doesn’t revolve around me. It should, I just haven’t figured out how to make it do that.

I think this trend is directly traceable to overpopulation

I do not claim that the world revolves around me. However I do aver that God lives in my right shoe. My proof of that is that, if I were making this up, I would claim He lives in my left shoe.

I woke up one morning in my early teens and saw a ray of sunshine beaming through a chink in the curtains. It hit my right shoe in such a way as to make the inside glow while not shining on anything else. That’s when I made up this bit of heliotheology. Haven’t thought about it for more than half a century.

I can think of someone else who seems to believe that the world only revolves around them

If he were half man and half horse he could be the “centaur of the universe.” Okay, okay. I’m leaving…

Money, or greed depending on your preferred translation, is NOT the root of all evil; Entitlement is. The belief that because of who I am, my situation, or what I have experienced, I have something owed me. That is the root of all evil.

Top of the world Ma!

“I’m on the top of the world, looking down on creation…” (a nod to Karen)

Are his days 12 or 24 hours and on Daylight Time?

My neighbor has been on a delusional ego trip like this for years. Apparently, his meds are not working.

So many comments about revolvers, it’s only a comic, can’t we keep the NRA out of it?

Remember how we used to treat peripheral nobodies? Back when we were smart? /s

It may seem harsh, but Rat’s way of dealing with the world seems to work for him….

Rat is wrong. The world revolves around me.

I dunno how that kind can multiply: Even if they manage to meet someone, they won’t manage to generate a relationship. Which, I guess, isn’t an actual necessity for being fruitful and multiplying (except bacteria who must divide).

A sign of the times we live in. Is it me or is Pastis getting more cynical than usual lately.

You are correct in a very specific and irrelevant manner. But quite ‘in’.

His kind… egomaniacs? That concerns me greatly.