Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for July 12, 2014

You’re overreacting, Petey.

that child has just too many problems.

They run the books through the dish washer. Yeah, that’s it.

Actually, it’s the bookworms. They eat the germs overnight.

A 450º oven should do it, though the Slate explainers might disagree that the ignition point for paper is always 451º : http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/explainer/2012/06/ray_bradbury_death_does_paper_really_burn_at_451_degrees_fahrenheit_.html

Does Madeline’s sarcasm get obscured by Petey’s anxiety? Petey could be headed for a remote hermit’s cave in a few years….

Recently, while at the library I watched a grown man pick his nose, wipe it on the book and put it back on the shelf. That ended what I wanted from that section to this day!

Because my library has a library cat, the librarians wipe each book and DVD case with a wipe to clean off any cat dandruff and fur.

Schrodinger.

This kid is weird! I’m sure that he’s going to be in therapy for the rest of his life.