Pearls Before Swine  
   by Stephan Pastis 

   Did you see last Sunday's comics, this one by Mr. Pastis?

   In the first window, a politician is standing on a block telling four small characters representing voters:

Hey! Everyone be outraged 

about this thing I want you

to be outraged about! 

   In the next window, they all shout:

OUTRAGED! 

   Next, another politician on his own block:

No! Be outraged about this thing

I want you to be outraged about!

   They all say:

OUTRAGED! 

   The first pol responds:

Wait! Be outraged about this thing

I want you to be outraged about!

   With one voter sitting down, one of the other three says:

OUTRAGED!

   The second pol yells:

Wait! Wait! Wait! 

Be outraged about.....

   With all four voters now asleep on the ground, the pol asks:

Hey...Why are you all so apathetic?

   Last window, a cartoon animal says:

I wonder why.

   His companion hollers:

We should be outraged about that!