Pearls Before Swine by Stephan Pastis for June 15, 2018

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    BE THIS GUY  over 6 years ago

    It doesn’t help. They just read Bill O’Reilly books.

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    wilburygirl  over 6 years ago

    Better turn off the free wifi in there first, Rat

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    Dirty Dragon  over 6 years ago

    My Struggle… to finish “War and Peace”.

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    Walrus Gumbo Premium Member over 6 years ago

    Start with Trump… and no Tweeting!

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    SomeOtherGocomicsGuy  over 6 years ago

    Don’t worry. I read comics. I think i’m safe.

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    knight1192a  over 6 years ago

    Funny, Rat is unlikely to go to a library himself and makes fun of anyone who does.

    I must say that it has been a long time since I’ve set foot in my local library. I was thinking I’d be sad to say that, but as I look around I have so very many reasons why I’m not. I’ve probably got over a hundred books of my own, including copies of some of what I was regularly checking out.

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    chris_weaver  over 6 years ago

    That way, even more people will read to escape!

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    Randallw  over 6 years ago

    In. In the library. They won’t read much chained outside the front door.

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    Liverlips McCracken Premium Member over 6 years ago

    The dumbing down of the citizenry is a problem. Money alone can’t solve it, but it doesn’t hurt. You need standards and accountability – of the students. If you don’t set high standards, you have no hope of reaching them. If all you expect is junk, that’s exactly what you’ll get. Teachers are obviously crucial to the solution, and should be supported and paid accordingly. But they too need to meet certain high standards.

    It helps enormously if the parents are invested in their kid’s education. I don’t have a clue what to do about the disastrous home lives of many children. Nor do I know how to counter the anti-education, anti-educated attitude that has become so prevalent.

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    ND Cool Z  over 6 years ago

    Do comic strip collections and middle-grade chapter novels count? I hope so…

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    Display  over 6 years ago

    Nope, don’t do it. They’ll start to quickly knock off segments of novels that were printed sequentially and we’ll end up with a bunch of… serial killers. It would be pretty savage, doc but they might feel right at Holmes, Sherlock.

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    asrialfeeple  over 6 years ago

    Keep the people poor and stupid.Then give them bread and circusses.

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    Gent  over 6 years ago

    Just don’t read “KOMIX” and everything will be just fine.

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    winston5610  over 6 years ago

    Jacob Bronowski’s SCIENCE AND HUMAN VALUES should be required reading for all students above fifth grade, and questions based on its text should be included in any basic academic competency exam at or above tenth grade level.

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    jhagerson  over 6 years ago

    Read free books on the Internet: www.gutenberg.org

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    tripwire45  over 6 years ago

    That works for me. I go to the library to read on my lunch hour every day. However, they also have computers with internet access and free wifi so I’m sure dumb people addicted to their smartphones could still avoid reading.

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    Andrew Sleeth  over 6 years ago

    I say we make a start by having DoD and the Department of Education swap budgets.

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    Walrus Gumbo Premium Member over 6 years ago

    The only thing that should be fired in a school is Betsy DeVoss!

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    jessegooddog  over 6 years ago

    An educated population would never back a regressive regime.

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    vics_machine Premium Member over 6 years ago

    “Governments don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking. That is against their interests. They want obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept it.” — George Carlin

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    Deezlebird  over 6 years ago

    We spend more on education than any other country in the world. It’s not the amount of $$, it’s the way it’s spent. A study several years ago showed that the single biggest factor in student learning and success was parental involvement. Plus we spend so much time stressing self esteem and diversity that we neglect other things. Another study showed that our students didn’t do well compared with those of other countries in areas such as math and science, but boy, did they think highly of themselves. So at least the self esteem part seems to be working.

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    gorgolo_chick  over 6 years ago

    Ah, my (and my mom’s) childhood fantasy. Admittedly, I don’t go so often these days, as I own so many physical books and also am a Kindle addict. What could be more of a dream come true than to carry your own library and bookstore with you at all times? Heaven!

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    Nicolas LE DREFF  over 6 years ago

    Does Trump know there is a library in the White House?

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    johngregor Premium Member over 6 years ago

    Like staking them to ant-hills until they learn to appreciate ants.

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    Bookworm  over 6 years ago

    Unfortunately, the books seem to be disappearing from my local library. Computer terminals are taking their place.

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    Charlie Tuba  over 6 years ago

    Is that Trump without his magic comb-over?

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    whelan_jj  over 6 years ago

    All you leftists making these idiotic comments about conservatives are the dumbest nuts in the box. You can’t think to save your lives and parrot the saying of liars who are using your gullibility to increase their own power! It makes you feel good to think you are smarter and better than others but you are deluding yourselves!

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    Digital Frog  over 6 years ago

    The public library burned down last night. Both books were burned. And one of them hadn’t even been colored in yet.

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    Sisyphos  over 6 years ago

    Go for it, Rat! I rather like your solution. But some of the Dumb Ones may have to start out with coloring books and work their way up….

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    RonBerg13 Premium Member over 6 years ago

    Does reading Pearls Before Swine count?

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    ZeebaNeighba1985  over 6 years ago

    I think Larry the croc needs to be put in.

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    Rᴇᴠɪʙᴇ   over 4 years ago

    As a bookworm, I go to the library and see people playing video games on the library computers every day

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    PBS1!  over 4 years ago

    Goat should have seen that coming

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