Scott Adams: In his own words
The Small Business Optimism Index hit an all-time high. That’s the new Presidential Approval Poll. In olden days (pre-2016), candidates for president were not so different from each other. I can remember pundits complaining endlessly about how similar the Democrats and Republicans had become. In that environment, you can easily imagine someone…
Read MoreOn CNN yesterday, Jake Tapper described President Trump’s recent behavior — including the President’s tweet about having a bigger nuclear “button” than North Korea — as abnormal and unstable. In other words, crazy. Is it? [missing image] One folksy definition of “crazy” is that it involves trying over and over…
Read MoreDo you remember when candidate Trump told us (in effect) that he would be the first non-politician to win the presidency? It seemed impossible to even imagine such a thing. Then he did the impossible. Do you remember when it was common wisdom that if the U.S. recognized Jerusalem as…
Read MorePresident Trump has delivered on a number of promises for his base. But there was an impressive amount of breakage along the way. You might say he President Trump did as much demolition as he did construction. The press is doing a good job of telling us what he accomplished…
Read MoreWhen candidate Trump first set about the job of redefining politics (and reality) back in 2015, people had lots of predictions about how things would turn out. One year isn’t long enough to know everything we need to know about his presidency, but it’s long enough to to check some of our…
Read MoreOne of the big changes in our national consciousness, thanks to President Trump, is that many of us are starting to see politics in terms of “deals.” We are also thinking about a growing economy. Compare that approach to the Obama/Bernie/Clinton worldview that is more about wealth transfer in a…
Read MoreMany of you asked me to provide a quick index to my Trump-only blog posts. I did that for you here in a Whencast. Feel free to share on social media or embed in your own blog. My updates to this will flow automatically to wherever it is shared. To…
Read MoreAre you looking for a gift for a loved one, and want to achieve a high thoughtfulness to cost ratio? I have the solution. I call it the Dilbert Car Kit. For Christmas, I made two for my wife: One for her car and one for mine when she is…
Read MoreI got to bed late last night, so today’s post is lame and rambling, just like always. I decided to update my ultimate one-story house plan, and also describe the ultimate future city. See my previous posts for details that make the one-story floor plan special. In this update I…
Read MoreWhen I was 11-years old, I applied to the Famous Artists School, to learn to be a cartoonist by mail. Here’s the application. [missing image] And here’s a page from the test, so you can see how much talent I had at that age. (Not much.) [missing image] In the…
Read MoreBeing a syndicated cartoonist isn’t as glamorous as people imagine. For example, the other day I spent about an hour trying to come up with a word as funny as turd. Ultimately, I failed. It all started with a comic I drew with this third panel. (Click to enlarge.) [missing…
Read MoreThe other day I was pre-autographing a box of squeezable Dilbert characters at my restaurant. We buy them with the restaurant information printed on their backs, as promotional items for potential banquet customers. (Yes, I pay for the squeeze toys.) Anyway, as customers and employees were lusting after them, I…
Read MoreIn my ongoing reality series, I continue advising Scott Meyer on how to become a syndicated cartoonist. Most recently, I asked Scott to try drawing some strips with three panels and fewer words. That’s the formula for successful syndication in newspapers because newspapers traditionally avoid buying anything else. Every writer…
Read MoreIn my ongoing reality series, I continue advising Scott Meyer on how to become a syndicated cartoonist. If you haven’t been following the story, start here: http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/08/basic-instruc-1.html Allow me to set the stage for today. Have you noticed that bad movies seem like good movies when you watch them on…
Read MoreIn yesterday’s post I showed you how Scott Meyer’s comic, Basic Instructions, would look stuffed into a traditional comic strip format. It’s a tight fit. Today, as an experiment, I rewrote Scott’s joke for Dilbert, to see how many words I could save by featuring a well-understood character, and reducing…
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