Wisdom for us all to be found in the ‘funny papers’
Many years ago when I was a kid, we called the comics page in our local newspaper “the funny papers.” Nowadays, of course, newspapers themselves are failing fast, and some of you may not realize what a “comics page” is — but trust me, it’s a collection of printed comic strips such as you find at some Internet news sites.If you follow such things, perhaps you’d agree that one of the all-time greatest comic strips (well I think so anyway!) is “Pearls Before Swine.” “Pearls” focuses especially on the everyday lives and adventures of Rat, Pig, Goat, Zebra, and a neighborhood family of crocodiles.
Far and away, my favorite character is Pig. Pig reflects a fresh sense of innocence in everything he does. He also comes off as probably not too bright, and he generally suffers at the hands of Rat, his closest friend and a contender for World’s Most Cynical Living Creature.
In the current series of strips, Pig has created what he calls his “Internet Happy Box” — a place, he says, to get away from the Internet, where people are always mean to each other. His Internet Happy Box doesn’t really DO anything. He explains: “Well, it’s just like the Internet, only it’s not hooked up to anything and you can’t communicate with anyone and its dark.”
Gotta get me one of those Internet Happy Boxes, I think. Every time I turn on the TV, or listen to the radio, or even read the newspaper — I am assaulted by “Sky Is Falling! Sky Is Falling!” goofiness being screamed by people who haven’t a clue what “socialism” is, or what health care reform is actually being considered, or who simply haven’t a speck of “pay-attention-and-discuss-this-rationally” civility in their bodies.
Ah, well. What’s the use. I’m off to see the wizard. Shopping list in hand, Medifast coupon code before me, and a bit of cash left in my debit card. Hi ho, Hi ho, it’s off to work I go … Oh, yeah, don’t want to forget to pick up that Internet Happy Box on my way home …
Have a great day, and throttle back that blood pressure just a notch if you can!
Did you enjoy this post? Why not leave a comment below and continue the conversation, or subscribe to my feed and get articles like this delivered automatically to your feed reader.
Comments
No comments yet.
Leave a comment