JumpStart by Robb Armstrong for August 18, 2011

[Year long tally: 28 Nonsensical : 202 Realistic] Thank you Robb for today’s realistic and funny comic!! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Dexter, try to get compulsory school laws banned, or convince your parents to home-school, that the closest facsimile you’ll get to stopping summer from leaving. You can’t stop the earth from orbiting.

falcon: Third possibility, abolish schools. That’s what Perry is trying to do in Texas. That way, everyone will be as ignorant as that Aggie joke.

Night-Gaunt: Party correct. School would be for those rich enough to afford them; the rest could be slaves (since he also opposes minimum wage).

When I was in elementary school, the school year started the Tuesday after Labor Day, went six weeks, then stopped for two or three weeks so all school kids could do grinding work in the fields until harvest was finished. After which, school started again, but there was no enforcement of compulsory attendance laws. This lasted until the mid-1940s, although city school districts abandoned this much earlier since there was no harvest. On the other hand, there was no fall break (other than the rest of the week after Thanksgiving – and I was caught in the fourth vs. last Thursday controversy on that) and no spring break other than Good Friday off. For ethnic minorities (collectively now the majority), your “good old days” still applies.

Or Dexter could convince his family to move to Argentina for six months?

Night-Gaunt: Unfortunately, you are probably right, unless the people rise up in their might as they did in the ‘60s and demand their government back. In a few years, it may be too late even for that. The Middle East is their testing ground just like Spain was in mid to late ’30s was for Hitler and Mussolini. “Send not to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.” Hemingway chose Donne’s quote for a reason.