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Some of you may not have seen Monday’s Pearls Before Swine:

Those of you who did see it may have thought that its worse crime was the egregious punnery that brought Rat to tears in panel three. However, today’s Baltimore Sun ran a letter to the editor with a different view:

Crude comic insults the devotion of nuns

In light of all the calamities confronting our country, it might seem rather mundane to write a letter to the editor concerning the comics. However, there are so many ways that artists and writers chip away at any of the core values left in America.

Two of the most decent comics that were in The Sun, Prince Valiant and Mark Trail, were eliminated and replaced with yet more inane and offensive comic strips.

Could it be that those comics were dropped because they dared to mention God at various intervals?

On Monday, Stephan Pastis hit a new low when his Pearls Before Swine strip mentioned a nun having enemas with the crudest of entertainers, Eminem. How disgusting.

I had three aunts in the convent who dedicated their lives to the poor. The nuns in our parochial schools gave my children an excellent education that has served them well.

This cartoon is a slap in the face to each of these self-sacrificing women.

Polly Thornton

Elkridge

Mind you, this was written before they start putting bestiality in the Jumble, so things are only going downhill faster and faster. If anyone can point me to a religious tenant that declares enemas to be sinful — or for that matter, a religiously themed Mark Trail — I’d be grateful. Last Christmas Mark gave Jesus short shrift so he could focus on Santa, so I’m not convinced of his piety.

Speaking of the decline and fall of our civilization, faithful reader Victoria Solomon recently sent me a link to a video she and her little friends made mocking another good-hearted and decent comic, the Family Circus. Enjoy, heathens!

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Pearls Before Swine, 5/6/06

I’m on the record as being annoyed by Pearls Before Swine’s crocs. But you know how sometimes you can’t define why something is funny but you’re pretty sure it’s funny anyway? Well, the fact that this she-croc is, unlike all the other crocs we’ve encountered to this point, perfectly capable of speaking English in a normal fashion in and not in that horrible croc-pidgin, is funny.

Also funny: The fact that PBS characters all seem to sit on that floppy little pillow when watching TV.

Also also funny: The she-croc’s enormous afro.

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Pearls Before Swine, 10/28/05

As someone who works at home, I’ve got to agree with the Jojo: it feel reeeeeel guuuuud. In fact, I’m going to go take my pants off right now. Have a good weekend, everybody!