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Dilbert taught me how to read. Stacked perilously high – between Calvin & Hobbes and The Far Side – in my childhood home’s bathroom, Scott Adams’s cartoon provided the perfect reading material for the porcelain throne. Even before I knew what most of the words meant, I’d belly laugh at page after page of banal workplace humor. This is bizarre: why, as a preschooler, was I so tickled by these jokes about human-resources departments and fax machines? Adams, who died in the night, enjoyed more than a three-decade run as honcho of the funny pages, starting in 1989. For much...

Scott Adams, creator of the comic strip “Dilbert,” has died after being diagnosed with metastatic prostate cancer. He was 68. The cartoonist’s former wife Shelly Miles announced his death in a livestream on X on Tuesday morning, reading a statement Adams had prepared. "If you are reading this, things did not go well for me," the statement began. Miles fought through tears as she read the message, which was dated Jan. 1. She said Adams had been in hospice care at his Pleasanton, Calif., home. “I had an amazing life,” it concluded. “I gave it everything I had. If you...

Song-prayer at the article link click. I prayed it for him about 4 am. I am going to pray it again.

Scott Adam’s, creator of Dilbert, long time political commentator, has passed away today. He converted to Christianity before the end https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2011117721191162126

Scott Adams, a cartoonist, author, an independent-minded pundit and podcaster, has died at the age of 68 after a rather public battle against prostate cancer. The host of Real Coffee with Scott Adams, the creator of the legendary comic strip Dilbert, and the author of numerous books, had continued with his livestreaming routine, seven days a week throughout his treatments for the disease up until yesterday. In the process, he treated his audience like close family during his cancer journey. Adams first entered the American consciousness through the clever and relatable satire of Dilbert, which vividly captured the frustrations, absurdities,...

Adams told podcast listeners this month his odds of recovery are 'essentially zero' after cancer diagnosis. Dilbert" creator Scott Adams is in hospice care at his Northern California home as his health declines "rapidly" amid his battle with prostate cancer, his ex-wife said. Shelly Miles, who was married to the cartoonist from 2006 to 2014, told TMZ that Adams had begun receiving "end-of-life care" at his home last week. Miles said that she, her sister and Adams' stepdaughter Savannah, along with nurses, have been caring for him.

SNIP The “Dilbert” creator, 68, is reportedly in hospice at his home in Northern California, his first ex-wife, Shelly Miles, told TMZ on Monday. Miles, who was married to the legendary cartoonist from 2006 to 2014, also informed the outlet that Adams began receiving “end-of-life care” at his home last week because his health was declining “rapidly.” Although nurses have reportedly been “coming in and out” around the clock, Miles said that she, her sister and the “Dilbert” creator’s stepdaughter, Savannah, have been helping to care for Adams in his final days.

Dilbert creator Scott Adams warned that his Thursday podcast might be his last. Adams opened his podcast explaining how he’s now having difficulty staying awake, and that his exhaustion and slurred voice have nothing to do with any medication. “Today’s going to be a tough one,” he said. “Because I fell asleep about five times just getting ready” for the show. Adams announced his prostate cancer diagnosis last May, and that the cancer had already “spread to my bones.” At the time, he wasn’t certain he would last the summer. He did. But earlier this month, he announced his chances...

Scott Adams, the creator of the Dilbert comic strip, said on Thursday that his cancer prognosis has worsened, telling viewers that doctors have given him no expectation of recovery. In a candid update, Adams said he spoke with his radiologist shortly before the New Year and was told the outlook was bleak. “I talked to my radiologist yesterday. He was working on the day before New Year’s and it’s all bad news,” Adams said. “So the odds of me recovering are essentially zero,” he added. “I’ll give you any updates if that changes, but it won’t.” Adams said doctors told...

President Donald Trump on Sunday publicly confirmed that he was working to help "Dilbert" creator Scott Adams secure treatment for prostate cancer. Adams publicly reached out to Trump seeking his aid the same day. Trump promptly responded by sharing Adams's plea and simply saying "on it." Earlier in the day, Adams's plea for assistance went viral on X after he announced that he had been unable to schedule his treatment for a recently approved drug. "On Monday, I will ask President Trump, via X, to help save my life. He offered to help me if I needed it. I need...

Please pray for Scott Adams. Dilbert creator Scott Adams on Monday announced he has an aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones. In addition to the Dilbert comic strip, Adams has a podcast dubbed, “Coffee With Scott Adams,” where he often voices his support for President Trump. Adams was was of the first people to predict a Trump 2016 victory. The 67-year-old made the announcement on his podcast “Coffee With Scott Adams” just one day after Joe Biden announced he has prostate cancer that metastasized and spread to his bones. According to Biden’s spox, the former...

Scott Adams, the influential author, cartoonist, and pundit, revealed Monday that he is suffering from metastasized prostate cancer — the same diagnosis President Joe Biden reported the day before. “I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has,” Adams said. “I also have prostate cancer that has also spread to my bones.” “My life expectancy is maybe this summer,” he said. He said that he was considering ending his own life, as California law allows, using self-administered drugs. “I’m in pain,” he said, “I’m always in pain.” He said he had come to terms with his condition. “It’s kind of...

As I was reading Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung (aka The Little Red Book), I came across a particularly stunning quote in Chapter 2: Classes and Class Struggle: In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle. Among the whites in the United States, it is only the reactionary ruling circles that oppress the black people. They can in no way represent the workers, farmers, revolutionary intellectuals and other enlightened persons who comprise the overwhelming majority of the white people. "Statement Supporting the American Negroes in Their Just Struggle Against Racial Discrimination by U.S. Imperialism" (August 8,...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (WDAF) — In just over a day, more than $2 million has been raised for a Missouri teen who was shot after going to the wrong address. As of Tuesday morning, more than $2.7 million had been raised through a GoFundMe campaign to support 16-year-old Ralph Yarl. Kansas City police say just before 10 p.m. on Thursday, Ralph was picking up his younger siblings at a home on N.E. 115th Terrace when he mistakenly went to a house on N.E. 115th Street. Ralph didn’t have a phone with him and went to the wrong block, his aunt,...

Well, I went to the site to get my daily fix of Dilbert, and it is no longer there. I thought Scott Adams owned the URL, but now I'm guessing that the syndicate owns it.

About Scott Adams, the white male creator of the (once) popular "Dilbert" comic strip, The Washington Post wrote: "On his Feb. 22 episode of 'Real Coffee With Scott Adams,' the creator of the comic strip 'Dilbert' decided to riff on a much-criticized Rasmussen poll and promote a type of segregation. He declared that Black Americans are part of a 'hate group' and urged White people to 'get the hell away from Black people.'" National Public Radio condemned Adams' "racist rant." His distributor dropped him after several outlets, including the Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post, stopped carrying the strip....

Billionaire Elon Musk Sunday accused the media of being racist against whites and Asians after U.S. newspapers dropped a white comic strip author who made derogatory comments about Black Americans. The Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and USA Today were among newspapers that canceled the cartoon "Dilbert" after its creator Scott Adams said Black Americans were a hate group and posted racist comments on his YouTube channel Wednesday. In replies to tweets about the controversy, the Tesla and Twitter chief executive said the media had long been racist against non-white people but are now "racist against whites & Asians."...

Elon Musk has sensationally claimed the media is racist to white people and Asians as he voiced his support for disgraced 'Dilbert' comic strip creator Scott Adams. Dozens of newspapers including the New York Times and Washington Post announced they were dropping the 'Dilbert' series this weekend following a racist tirade from Adams in which he urged his followers to 'get the f**k' away from black people. But Twitter CEO Elon Musk appeared to back the shamed creator as he replied to a tweet about the controversy claiming 'the media is racist.' 'For a *very* long time, US media was...

The creator of the Dilbert comic strip faced a backlash of cancellations Saturday while defending remarks describing people who are Black as members of "a hate group" from which white people should "get away." Various media publishers across the U.S. denounced the comments by Dilbert creator Scott Adams as racist, hateful and discriminatory while saying they would no longer provide a platform for his work. Andrews McMeel Syndication, which distributes Dilbert, did not immediately respond Saturday to requests for comment. But Adams defended himself on social media against those who he said "hate me and are canceling me." The backlash...

Today is the National Day of Hate.There is a scene in Atlas Shrugged where one of the government officials says, "when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them." Ditto "white supremacists."That's what's going on with this "National Day of Hate." The very name gives it away as a #Democrat-@FBI psyop. This is the left's well-known bottom up, top down strategy.Nlot that the idiot white supremacists of the "alt-right" wouldn't organize a day of ahte, but do you really think they'd be dumb enough to bill it as such?The regime and the @FBI, OTOH, have every reason to organize it and...