Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for November 01, 2024

I would have expected Rat to have power there in the top three.

No sex?

That is one wise a$$! (But his name is banned hence the $)

Some people see forgiveness as a virtue, but I don’t see it that way. You can’t forgive and press charges simultaneously, but some people play silly word games and say that you can.

After much soul-searching we find out that Rat has no soul.

Money helps a whole lot

Love is the answer! (But what was the question?)

Wasn’t “Money, Money, Money” a song from Caberet?

Great, now I have the ABBA song stuck in my head.

Life rule #1: Pay attention.

“Money, money, money, mo-ney”, is the repeating chorus to the O-Jays hit, ‘For the Love of Money’.

Pink Floyd … “Money” … Playing in the background ;-)

Not quite what you thought, eh Rat?!

How does Rat not include beer??

#1, though, is love God with all you’ve got. Otherwise, he nailed it.

1) Beer.

2) Cheese

3) Money to buy beer and cheese.

Jai Wiseass Deva.

I’m surprised he didn’t put beer on there at least once.

“Gold and silver aren’t all there is. There’s platinum, too.”

Love and mercy that’s what you need tonight.

So, love and mercy to you and your friends tonight.

“Love and Mercy”, Brian Wilson

Faith, hope, and love. But the greatest of these is love.

I don’t think those are words in Rat’s vocabulary.

Great comic!

no beer

“I have three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasure.” (Lao-Tzu)

Any problem I have right now would definitely be made a lot better by more money.

The Wise Asp must have recently seen that gawd awful, maudlin, insipid, boring biopic “Love and Mercy” about Brian Wilson.

If you want money and power, start your own electric company.

Should have asked Elon Musk, Peter Theil or any of the billionaires who can’t seem to have enough money. They will buy a Presidential election to make sure they get their tax cuts and deregulation. The rest of us can suffer painful hardships , as Musk recently stated

The other three are a lot easier when you have money.

Yeah, no, Rat. Surprise, surprise. (NOT.)

Money, money, money, must be funny, in a rich man’s world

These days you need money to buy all three of those things.

“Duty, Honor, Country.”

what no sex. RATS

Biologists teach Food, Shelter, and Reproduction are the three basic needs of life.

Loving is earning money by making things from the Earth. Mercy is giving money to people who need it. Forgiveness is not asking them to pay you back.

So unforgiving, merciless people full of hate don’t have a life?

But they’re leading in the polls…

All things considered, Rat and Wise A$$ don’t think on the same wavelength.

In a nice world, love, mercy, and forgiveness are most important, but in this world it appears to be: 1) what you look like? 2) how much money do you have? 3) who do you know? 4) what do you know?

A s s add “Thyself.”

Wise A$$ sounds to be apolitical. Good choice.

I think this was a political cartoon.

We’re in the money…we’re in t he ’ve got a lot of what it takes to get along…."

“This planet has – or rather had – a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.”

― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

First, Love of power and money. Second, Mercy by ostracizing anybody that criticizes him. Third, Forgiveness of anybody that comes back and kisses his a$$.

Well, what do you know, Trump does have it right.

In Corporate America, rat has it exactly right.

No beer?

6,000 years ago all mankind needed was shelter, food and sex.

1 Corinthians 13:13 states, “So now faith, hope, and [selfless] love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is [selfless] love."