Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for April 04, 2023

Pig should accept that Rat is a jerk and not judge him.

Rat’s words should be on a T-shirt.

Here come de judge, here come de judge!

“I reject your reality and substitute my own!” ~ Adam Savage

Pig and Rat are always on different but eternal quests for simplicity in life.

Preemptive judging gets it done all at once!

Pig is all about his cheese, and Rat is all about who moved his cheese.

Judgement requires knowledge. Judgement without knowledge is opinion. Opinion, by its very nature, is offensive.

Why comment? Rat says we are all morons.

I can imagine the fun if Rat designed Hallmark Cards!

Your progress could be judged by the (cough) Supreme Court which is anti-progress

More words of wisdom from Rat.

I’ll judge your progress but please leave me out of the swimsuit competition.

Didn’t Rat come to “accept” that idea a long time ago?

So many commentors on both sides of the coin fit this description!

Nothing much Pig can do about Rat, that’s for sure.

Rat, do you mean the other drivers on the road?!

It’s not judging. It’s knowing.

We’re all somebody else’s moron.

Yep, that is still a judgment, I’d say.

Sounds like the pot is calling the kettle black.

This is why I hate Rat.

A big problem is that the morons don’t know they are morons and proud of it.

Hmmm . . . .

I hope Rat never finds out that “Pork is the other white meat”!

“ I try to make allowances for people being the way they are.” – Eddie Haskell

I think my blood pressure just dropped several points!

Especially while driving…

I must admit that as I get older it becomes more difficult to tolerate stupid people.

Rat’s version of the Serenity Prayer. Slightly different.

I came to that conclusion about politicians years ago.

Oy!

That IS progress for Rat. Works for me, too >D

I am Rat. I have a keepsake/jewelry box from PBS that I got years ago. It has Rat on it and says “Why must I live in a world with idiots?” The other one has the crocs sitting in box that says BOX O’MORONS. The hinges broke the other day and because I can’t find another one, I’m not getting rid of it. My fridge magnet has Rat that says “People are idiots and I hate them all”.

I keep looking at the PBS things for sale hoping more things beside cards and pins.

You don’t have to worry about Rat and “Lover’s Leap”.

Nobody loves him t hat much.

Why meditate further when one has found the ultimate answer?

Accept What Can’t Be Changed and Change What Can Be. Our ends are all the same….

rat, thanks for my new motto!

It’s still judging but it dos feel less judgmental than what he’s said before.

I never judge other people, because I don’t know where they have been

It’s “radical acceptance ,” a stress management technique from Dialectical Behavioral Therapy.

I’ve always been correct about everything. I will admit, however, that I’ve become more correct over the years.

Notice that Rat didn’t say that he wasn’t also a moron

Rat is a much wiser philosopher than that Wise A$$ on the Hill!

All the people around me just don’t understand what a burden it is, always being the smartest person in the room.

The moronic rat speaks the truth.