Pearls before Swine

I'm a huge fan of Stephan Pastis and his cartoon strip, "Pearls before Swine." If you come to my office, you'll see numerous cartoon strips tacked on the bulletin board just outside my door. You'll also see the clock (which I refuse to set back to Eastern Standard Time) that my daughter got me for Christmas. Then there's the "Hullllooooooooo Zeeba Neighbah!" sticker on my printer. And so on and so on.

Pastis has been blogging for a lot longer than I have. You can read it here. Lately, Pastis has been blogging from Kuwait and Iraq. He's there, apparently, with a group of other cartoonists on some kind of a goodwill mission. I think that's a great idea, but I really think this is just a way for a group of guys to get together and have a good time.

Pastis' blog, however, does point out some of the dangers of being over there, and the dangers our service men and women face on a daily basis. Someday soon, I hope, these women and men will be back home where they belong. In the meantime, we can thank people like Pastis for bringing a little light in the midst of the heat of battle.