I’ve always figured if you take very educated young people and give them an insurmountable challenge (repaying student loans), someone would figure out a way around it–or at least a manner in which to exploit it.

Yes, the listed method here wouldn’t work. It’s a joke. Don’t try this stuff at home, kids.

I’ve attended several graduations, and this is unfortunately how most of them go. THis should not come as a surprise, seeing as how we don’t generally choose commencement speakers based on their oratory skills, but instead based off life achievement. This is sort of like choosing a relief pitcher based off who has the best hair.

There is something weird about people claiming something will undermine the sanctity of marriage when they themselves are on their third or fourth marriage. Surely anyone can have problems in a marriage, but it’s just that these people are usually the source of all the problems in their marriage.

I should note that this strip is purely fantasy. Everyone knows there is no real way to escape the friend zone.

No, this is not a strip bashing Lincoln for being gay. I have no idea if he was or not (there are apparently some historians who believe so, or at least making money peddling theories). The ultimate “friend zoning” would be this relationship, but is in no way encouraging violence against gay people. It’s a joke.

This disclaimer is placed here not to defend ourselves against gay people (they usually have a splendid sense of humor), but to keep intolerant idiots from reading too shallowly into it.

Every person dreads being banished to the Friend Zone. What’s funny to me is the moment of realization when it suddenly dawns on you that’s where you’re headed. I can imagine an entire Seinfeld episode on trying to prevent that placement. They would do something very clever. We, on the other hand, used portals.

You’re supposed to laugh at the comic and not us. Stop laughing at us. No, we can’t still be friends.

No, we’re not simply making fun of video game players. There’s just always something funny about someone creating an elaborate solution to a problem, but the basic problem still prevents the solution from working. This happens all the time in companies,

At the local zoo, for example, they had a cockroach problem in their rain forest exhibit. So they brought in some type of lizard to eat them. They ignored them, and now they have a cockroach and lizard problem.

College campuses are full of smug offs. Remember kids, nobody wins in a smug off. Even the “winner” just ends up looking smug.

There’s been a big push to move everything digital in higher education. Tablet computers are sexy, and boy do they seem more appealing than stuffy old textbooks. Apple has even made great promos of what the future of textbooks could look like, even with soem real examples.

The problem is twofold. First, it will take years to redo textbooks into a more interactive format. Second, even when done, it won’t technically make learning any more exciting or fun. CD-ROMs were supposed to do that in the 1990′s, and while they sort of work at making The Oregon Trail more flashy, they didn’t really revolutionize education.

There is a sort of silliness to the concept of asking teachers to be tough while at the same time expecting the people they’re tough on to give them good evaluations. One could make a comparison to prisons, but ideally education doesn’t resemble a prison too much. Maybe a veterinarian is a better comparison. My cat is all the better for seeing the vet, but I’d never ask the cat to be the one to evaluate him.

Still, even that’s not fair. Students are aware of good and bad qualities in teachers. Whether that awareness always accurately translates to paper is another issue. It’s a flawed system, but I’m not entirely sure of a better one. What do you think?