“Syndromes are becoming easier and easier to recognize among children Nate’s age. They can be dealt with through a variety of solutions such as therapy or medication. The word ‘therapy’ is based on the Greek word ‘therapeia’, meaning healing. Greece was the first ancient civilization to introduce the concepts of diagnosis, prognosis and advanced medical ethics. Greeks also invented mathematical concepts such as geometry, Thales’s theorem, and Pythagorean Theorem. The Pythagorean Theorem states that the square of the two legs of a right triangle equals the square of the hypotenuse and can be proven using a knotted rope. "
Seriously, each Big Nate strip is like the first step in a large chain reaction of loosely-related Wikipedia facts.
You might as well escalate the distribution of blame until you end up blaming God for creating all of humanity, assuming you believe in that.