Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for January 09, 2023

You can only discuss rescue animals now.

How do we know that Pig wasn’t going to talk about the Indy 500?

Isn’t that cartoon murder? Rat just “rubbed him out”!

Complain about the human race pig…we deserve it!

Complain about the human race pig, we deserve it!

Maybe he was excited about the Derby or the first NASCAR race at Darlington this spring.

Imagine pbs without pig or rat

Pig was going to talk about the “Rat Race”!

Wow, that’s a real rubout!

If you say what certain people think is wrong about race …

… you may get e-raced.

There was an early Pearls cartoon where Pig erased Rat.

https://www.gocomics.com/pearlsbeforeswine/2004/06/23

It’s like he’s been erased.“Erased from existence!” – Dr. Emmett Brown

Noooooo

Rubbed one out earlier.

The Cincinnati Bengals secured a home game in the playoff race yesterday by defeating… the other team. Who Dey!

yup, sure does stink when someone has a pencil in a cartoon and a comic world.

Rat should be cancelled.

If the pen is mightier than the sword, then the pencil is mightier than the pen.

He probably wasn’t even gonna talk about a person’s race, he was probably gonna talk about a regular running race.

Choose wisely.

Was Rat’s day job with Twitter until @elonmusk took over?

Now I’m in shock. Next time add a trigger warning.

I want that pencil.

I love pig races at the county fair.

Problem is, there is no appeal.

Until it’s used on you eh Rat?

LOL‼️☺️

Yeah, knowing Pig, he was actually going to be talking about running an actual race.

And that’s how they do it.

Rat Amuck

That easy huh? – How about wiping out your creator instead of taking a bat to him?

Accurate of today’s society.

Duke University anthropology professor Tracie Canada wrote a piece Friday headlined “Damar Hamlin’s Collapse Highlights the Violence Black Men Experience in Football,” during which she claimed, “The anti-Blackness of the system is inescapable.”

She wrote, “As a cultural anthropologist, I’ve spent the last decade learning how Black college football players navigate the exploitation, racism, and anti-Blackness that are fundamental to its current system.”

Despite the article’s title, Canada later admitted, “I am not aware of research that compares the rate of injury between Black and white football players.”

What???? How messed up is that?

In his SF novel, The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, Robert Heinlein actually had a character erased, literally. Like this: “But something was happening to Samuel Beaux. He leaned forward and fell off his chair, dead as King Charles—and his body began to disappear. It didn’t fade out; it disappeared in swipes, through the middle, then across his face, as if someone had taken an eraser to a chalkboard. Then he was gone completely; not even blood was left. Even his chair was gone.”

What is this,DUCK AMUCK???

Looney Tunes did it first! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ly35NQfZw8

Fits right in with some states killing tenure for liberal professors.

It’s one of those disappearing/reappearing erasers. Pig will be back tomorrow.

The nation, and the world, cannot heal until the conversation becomes two-sided.

Rat loves erasers. And erasures. And probably the movie, Eraserhead, by David Lynch, too….

Pig forgot to start by saying he had something to say about how evil the white race is. Everybody knows that’s okay.