Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for March 12, 2006

Transcript:

"Who's this, Rat?" "The dog o'abject despondency. ...A dog that so internalized the present state of the world that he can no longer even move." "But dogs are supposed to be happy." "Not this guy... He was born with too much empathy... A dog like him never should have watched cable news, but he did... And now... He's the dog who felt too much." "What are you gonna do?" "Well, I gave him a Celine Dion album, but it backfired forribly... It plunged him into an even greater depression." "So now what?" "Now we just sit here and wait for the world to become a better place." "But what if that doesn't happen?" "Then we go with Plan B." "What's Plan B?" "Hope Celine Dion improves." "...We're praying it doesn't come to that."