It was only five days ago that we posted a link to what Scott Adams himself said might be his last show. He wasn't off by much. He died this morning at the age of 68. May his soul and the souls of all the faithful departed rest in peace. ✠
Mr Adams, the legendary creator of the comic strip Dilbert and a widely respected and beloved political commentator, announced on his vlog Coffee With Scott Adams that any hope for remission was gone, and he expected to die sometime in January. He continued to do his popular online podcast right up to the end.
We are happy to be able to write "the souls of the faithful departed." In a final message read by his ex-wife, Scott wanted everyone to know about his conversion to Christianity. "If you are reading this," he wrote, "things did not go well for me. I have a few things to say before I go. My body failed before my brain. I am of sound mind as I write this January 1st, 2026. I accept Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior and look forward to spending an eternity with Him." Amen.
Today, Scott Adams, creator Dilbert (BCSOAT), now dying of cancer, opened his podcast by saying that 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.
For the next 30 minutes, Mr Adams went on with his regular routine, where he runs through the day's headlines and offers his thoughts. But in the show's final minutes, he said, "As of today, based on how I feel, I don’t know if there will be a show tomorrow or ever again. If I feel better, there will be." In closing, he sayts, "Bye, for now. I hope to see you later, but it might not be."
Mr Adams announced his prostate cancer diagnosis last May, revealing that the cancer had already "spread to my bones." He told us he wasn’t certain he would last the summer, but he did. However, he announced just a few days ago that his chances of surviving were now down to zero and that he expected to "transition" sometime in January.
Earlier this week, Mr Adams said he would convert to Christianity. "I’ve not been a believer," he explained. "You’re going to hear for the first time today that it is my plan to convert [to Christianity]. I still have time. My understanding is that you’re never too late."
Very true. Please join us in praying that Scott will indeed be baptized into the Mystical Body of Christ, receive the Last Rites of Holy Mother Church, die a Christian death and have a good defence at the awesome tribunal of Christ. Amen.
Early in 2023, Scott Adams, creator of the super-popular Dilbert comic strip, said the quiet part out loud.
In a YouTube comment on a Rasmussen Reports poll in which black people were asked to agree or disagree with the phrase "It's OK to be white", Mr Adams, who is white, said that black people who disagreed with the statement were a "hate group." He added, "I would say, based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from black people…because there is no fixing this."
The PC police, led by the Washington Post and the New York Times, accused Mr Adams of racism, and that his remarks "promoted segregation." Imagine that! In the opinion of many, including yr obdt servant, what he said wasn't racism, but realism.
The knee-jerk reaction of the Los Angeles Times, the USA Today group, and almost all the papers in which Dilbert appeared was to cancel the strip, effectively cancelling Scott Adams' career. He predicted that most of his income would be gone within weeks. by next week.
Mr Adams refused to be silenced, and started a vlog called "Coffee With Scott Adams", published on Rumble and, more recently, on YouTube. It was on his vlog that he announced, last May, that he had been diagnosed with Stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer. The cancer has spread to his bones. It is only treatable, not curable.
Scott Adams is effectively under a death sentence, but he is keeping up the vlog, now known as "No Coffee With Scott Adams", even while undergoing -- and that's surely the right word -- radiation treatment. His livestream offers a candid hospital update, along with discussions on current events and personal reflections. Here's today's instalment.
No matter what one thinks of Mr Adams' political views, it's impossible to watch him struggle to keep keep talking, smiling (as best he can) through his tears, without feeling sympathetic. IMHO he deserves an award of some kind. The only award we have at WWW is the Wally, but that's not appropriate, so we offer instead our thoughts and prayers... seriously.
I see the COP30 summit in Belém, Brazil has already degenereated into bickering and brawls between the eco-wienies, climate alarmists and the indigenous people who think the whole leftie schmooze-fest is a waste of money which should be going to help them.
For those who were saying "Wut?", COP30 is the 30th annual United Nations climate change conference. About 50,000 people, including diplomats and "climate experts" from more than 190 countries (but somehow excluding Greta Thunberg) started beating their gums on Monday about the climate "crisis" and its "devastating impacts", including the rising frequency of extreme weather.
The hosts have a packed agenda, with 145 meetings planned to discuss the green fuel transition and global warming as well as the failure [Did they really use that word? Ed.] to implement past promises.
Andre Correa do Lago, president of this year's conference, emphasised that negotiators engage in "mutirao", a Brazilian word derived from an Indigenous word that refers to a group uniting to work on a shared task. In a statement published on Sunday, he wrote, "Either we decide to change by choice, together, or we will be imposed change by tragedy. We can change. But we must do it together."
Apparently the indigenous people aren't on the same page. Last night, tussles erupted between protesters and security guards -- COP30 cops -- when a group of indigenous and non-indigenous people (Pretendians?) stormed the conference centre in Belém.
Several dozen men and women, some in brightly coloured feather headdress, ran through the entrance, pushing at least one door off its hinges, before striding through the metal detectors.
At least one non-indigenous man was carrying a banner that read "Our forests are not for sale!" Others wore T-shirts saying "Juntos" (= Together).They waved banners and chanted until being forcibly removed.
It is not yet clear who was responsible for the intrusion, but at least one observer was impressed. "At last, something has happened here," said Juan Carlos Monterrey-Gómez, a Panamanian climate negotiator.
Also unclear is whether Sr Monterrey-Gómez or any of the other dips and "experts" have read "Three tough truths about climate", by none other than Bill Gates, published on October 28th. The subhead: "What I want everyone at COP30 to know". And here's the lede:
"There’s a doomsday view of climate change that goes like this:
In a few decades, cataclysmic climate change will decimate civilization. The evidence is all around us—just look at all the heat waves and storms caused by rising global temperatures. Nothing matters more than limiting the rise in temperature.
"Fortunately for all of us, this view is wrong. [!!!]Although climate change will have serious consequences—particularly for people in the poorest countries—it will not lead to humanity’s demise. People will be able to live and thrive in most places on Earth for the foreseeable future.
"Emissions projections have gone down, and with the right policies and investments, innovation will allow us to drive emissions down much further.
Unfortunately, the doomsday outlook is causing much of the climate community to focus too much on near-term emissions goals, and it’s diverting resources from the most effective things we should be doing to improve life in a warming world."
Cazart!!! Did Bill Gates, the man who now only foresaw the future but created it, really say there's no need for climate alarm? Perhaps he finally got around to reading The Dilbert Future, by Scott Adams (Harperbusiness, 1997)? Here's a slightly edited excerpt from the first chapter.
"Whenever humans notice a bad trend, they try to change it. The prediction of doom causes people to do things differently and avoid the doom. Any doom that can be predicted won't happen.
"Example: The world's population will grow faster than the food supply, and we'll all starve to death. Human response: Scientists realized you can call just about anything a "meat patty".
"Example: Petroleum reserves will be depleted in twenty years. Human response: Scientists discovered oil in their own hair.
"Example: Communism will spread to the rest of the world. Human response: All Communists became ballerinas and defected."
The point is that none of those predictions came true once we started worrying about them. That's the way it always works.
Those who think Scott Adams need not be taken seriously because he's "just a cartoonist" trying to make some money (not subtitle on the cover) should check out this video "'Fact Checking' The Dilbert Future after 25 years", recorded a little over three years ago by Dr Jon Padfield. He looks at 10 of the 65 predictions Scott Adams made in 1997, and finds that of the 10 predictions, 7 had already come true and 3 were on track to come true.
If Greta Thunberg tells me the world is going to burn to a crisp sometime soon, and Scott Adams tells me it's not, I think I'm on solid ground to believe Mr Adams. And I'll have a good laugh as he explains.
Mr Adams' super-popular Dilbert comic strip got cancelled by the lickspittle media in February of 2023 after he made comments on YouTube calling Black Americans [sic] "a hate group" and urging white Americans [no "sic"' to "get the hell away" from them. Mr Adams said he expected that to happen.
Fortunately for people who think, Scott Adams is still on YouTube. If you are retired or unemployed or have very long coffee breaks, you can enjoy Real Coffee with Scott Adams every day. Walt recommends his podcast highly, especially for days when it seems like our society is going down the tubes. No, Mr Adams says, not yet!
Since the lickspittle meeja started the deathwatch with the video equivalent of 72-point headlines yesterday, you probably know that former president Joe Biden has been diagnosed with very aggressive prostate cancer, which has metastasized and spread to his bones.
About him and his physical and mental problems I will say nothing more, except that I wouldn't wish that on anyone. May God grant him, and all those who suffer from incurable cancer, comfort and a quick and painfree passage into eternity.
But Mr Biden is not the only one facing death from the same cause. Scott Adams, the creator of the much-missed Dilbert comic strip -- cancelled years ago for being politically incorrect, especially when it comes to saying out loud the quiet part about race -- announced on his "Coffee With Scott Adams" vlog today that he has the same type of cancer and doesn't expect to be with us much past the fall.
Mr Adams says medically assisted suicide (MAID) is an option for him, but doesn't say whether or not he has made up his mind to do it. I don't know his religious views but suspect he's not a believer. If so, he won't be concerned about "Why God cannot forgive the sin of suicide", WWW 4/5/25. But we will be asking St. Peregrine to pray for him and all those who suffer from cancer, and for those who care for them.
Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, calls marketing "a dark science devoted to making people want t hings they don't need." Markeing ranks second on Mr Adams' list of Top Ten All-Time Evils. Here is the complete list.
1. Leadership - 2. Marketing - 3. Satan - 4. Human Resources - 5. Cannibalism - 6. Decaffeinated coffee - 7. Death squads - 8. Three-hour meetings - 9. Cats - 10. Hitler
I'm still like the fly on the rim of the toilet bowl -- pissed off! -- about the wokesters' cancellation of Dilbert, and its creator, Scott Adams. I imbibed the wisdom of Dilbert (and especially Dogbert) every day since the creation. It was from Dogbert that I learned how to answer questions about how many people read WWW.
But, as Mr Adams found out in February, you can only be politically incorrect for so long.
Scott Adams paid the price for being un-PC enough to say that he had given up trying to help blacks [that should be "Blacks". Ed.] If you wondered why you don't see the Dilbert comic strips in your local newspaper any more, click here to find out what happened.
But, I'm happy to report, Mr Adams refused to surrender to the libtard censors. His latest book, Reframe Your Brain, which was put on hold during the woke foofaraw, as now been published, and looks like it's going to be a big seller.
In an e-mail which he sent us recently Mr Adams, says he keeps hearing from people who have bought 2-10 copies apiece. It's in the Top 20 of all books on Amazon. There's an Audible version too.
What's Reframe Your Brain about? In his e-mail, Mr Adams told us: "Reframes are short sentences that tune your brain for a happier and more successful life. I have over 160 reframes for business, mental health, social life, and reality itself. People tell me they have achieved incredible results already."
If self-help books aren't your thing, and you're really looking for the Dilbert comic, it has been reborn as a spicier version, naughtier than newspapers allowed, available only by subscription: You can find it on X (formerly Twitter) by subscription at @ScottAdamsSays.
The strip is also part of the content on Coffee With Scott Adams. But wait (as Vince Offer used to say), there's lots more -- over two-hundred Micro Lessons (2-4 minutes) each teaching a useful skill or reframe, the occasional Robots Read News comic, daily livestreams on the headlines, frequent live streams from the Adams Man Cave in the evenings, and tons of other fun memes and posts including community stuff.
If you subscribe or donate, please tell Scott that Walt sent ya!
Dilbert creator Scott Adams says that a Rasmussen poll showing high levels of black racial animosity against whites is the first opinion poll that ever caused him to change his behaviour. Key takeaway: "I'm tired of being called a racist."
Wish I'd said that! Maybe if enough people say "It's not working," our woke governments will get the message and stop pushing affirmative action and other delusional woke nonsense down our throats. Or... let's be realistic... maybe not...
Regular readers of WWW know that Walt [and Ed.! Ed.] are regular readers of Dilbert, the only comic strip that makes of today's woke America. (It has therefore been banned by dozens of newspapers.) True fans know that Dilbert has a strongly autobiographical flavour, but Mr Adams has never said as much in the strip itself. Until today.
Not that it was a secret. The story has been told in interviews with Mr Adams, and in the dust jacket blurbs on his books. Here's the Wikipedia version.
Scott Raymond Adams (born 8 June 1957) is an American author and cartoonist. He is the creator of the syndicated Dilbert comic strip, and the author of several nonfiction works of satire, commentary, and business. Dilbert gained national prominence during the downsizing period in 1990s America and reached a worldwide audience.
Mr Adams worked in various business roles before he became a full-time cartoonist in 1995. He writes in a satirical, often sarcastic way about the social and psychological landscape of white-collar workers in modern corporations.
Well, there's more to it than that. For years, Scott Adams welcomed True Stories from the insanely funny real world of business, and worked them into his strips, just as the second panel of today's strip says.
Latterly, life in America -- not just the business world -- has got so ridiculous that he no longer needs to solicit stories. All he has to do is read the papers. As witness this week's politically incorrect strips in which the pointy-haired boss interviews diverse candidates -- a white woman, a south Asian man and a Black man -- to apply for a new position as head of AI, just to comply with "ESG" mandates, only to give the job to Tina the tech writer, who knows nothing about AI.
In today's woke America, that's not satire, folks, that's just reporting. Walt [and Ed.! Ed.] wish Scott Adams continued success. Keep on truckin'! Honk honk!
In the past I have used the term "reparations shopping" to descreibe the shoplifting, theft and looting for which "mostly people protesters" and others are forgiven by guilt-ridden liberals, on the grounds that they (the looters) are "entitled" to some compensation for wrongs done to their ancestors in the distant past.
I mentioned the concept of reparations again last week in "National Be-nice-to-an-Indian Day", WWW 30/9/22. "All right-thinking, progressive (and White) Canucks -- and Americans too -- know that the indigenous peoples of North America were treated badly by the settlers who came across the big waters in their big canoes. Mistakes were made. Apologies have been tendered again and again. All that's needed now is... errr... reparations."
Scott Adams, whose excellent Dilbert comic strip has been dropped by 77 newspapers because he dared to make fun of racial and sexual identities, picked up on the theme in today's strip, in which Attorney Dogbert demands reparations for his client Wally. Walt (no relation to Wally, although there's a certain resemblance) hopes Mr Adams won't mind our reposting it.
If you're having trouble reading this, or want to see more Dilbert strips, or want to follow Dilbert,click here.
Footnote: Breitbart News reports that Governor Ron DeSantis (R) has warned "reparations shoppers" that Florida is a 2nd Amendment state!
Ed. here (again). I've sent Walt another message asking when he's going to "return" to this space. In reply, I have received only this Dilbert comic strip.
It's hard for me to resist reposting Dilbert strips every day. I imagine if I'd did so I'd be hearing from attorneys for Andrews & McMeel right sharpish. If you like them, here's where you can subscribe, so you can get a new one in your in-box every day.
Footnote: Andrews & McMeel have for decades been syndicating comic strips and similar material, and publishing them in book form. One of the strips they handled -- not sure if they still do -- was (is?) Doonesbury. If you have a good collection of the Doonesbury books, look through it until you find the sequence in which Uncle Duke is recruited by Big Oil's Jim Andrews to take out Saddam Hussein. In one of those strips you'll find Andrews relaying orders from "Mr McMeel". Inside joke!
It's now SOP (Standard Operating Procedure) for the aggrieved liberals, social justice warriors and other denizens of the swamp to dredge up social media posts of those they don't like, and republish them so all the world can see that how horrible those racist (etc etc) conservatives are.
Never mind how old the e-mail or tweet or Facebook comment was, or that it was made in confidence, or in jest, if it could possible be construed as offensive, the person who wrote it is guilty, guilty, guilty! There's no Statute of Limitations on "hate crime" and "haters"... right? Or should I say "left?"
Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert (which Walt reads every day!) had a very good comment on this today. I trust he won't mind our reposting it.
I hope Scott Adams won't mind our reposting this very succinct explanation of what "social media" is all about. [WWW doesn't make any money out of this. No-one reads the interstitial ads! Ed.]
On a related note, YouTube has banned Sky News Australia. Why? Because SNA was a staunch supporter of President Trump, and, since the fake election, has been trenchantly critical of President Biteme. Can you say "senile", boys and girls? SNA did, so must be silenced!
Except for Dilbert, I don't read comic strips any more. For one thing, I don't read the print editions of any newspaper. (Indeed, at least one newspaper which I read occasionally doesn't even have a print edition any more.) Besides, my all-time favourite strips are either dead (Pogo) or dying (Doonesbury). So it is that until today I never heard of Mallard Fillmore, a comic strip syndicated by King Features, written and illustrated by Bruce Tinsley until 2019 and Loren Fishman since 2020.
The artwork owes a lot to Garry Trudeau and Doonesbury. The editorial viewpoint? All I know is that the title character is "a seasoned conservative reporter for fictional television station WFDR-TV in Washington DC, which hired him in order to fill its quota for 'Amphibious Americans'." I like this example of the creators' viewpoint.
You can't win with those guys, can you. That we -- you know who I mean -- are all racists, whether we admit it or not, is a key part of critical race theory, the latest political orthodoxy with which we are now taxed. Deny it, and you will quickly find yourself beyond the pale, even if you don't work for The Mouse.
Blazing Cat Fur used this strip today in their link to a good article on CRT, by the anonymous write of a blog called Neo. If, unlike my goodself, you have to live in a community inhabited by the likes of the blonde lady, you should read entitled "Dealing with Critical Race Theory and Critical Race Training". And good luck to you.
FOOTNOTE added 14/5/21: Speaking of Dilbert, this strip appeared today.
Scott Adams has been taking the mickey out of political correctness and other shibboleths for decades. Dilbert is the one strip I subscribe to.
Scott Adams' new book How to Win Bigly, is available for pre-order. Walt predicts it will be a best-seller, if for no other reason than 1000s of people noticed, during the 2016 election campaign, that Mr Adams understood better than almost any other political analyst why Donald Trump was going to be the 45th president of the Excited States of America.
Footnote: For those who haven't heard of Scott Adams -- it's theoretically possible, right? -- he is the creator behind the Dilbert comic strip, which I read every day because it reflects the world as I understand it. I have to say, though, that it's gotten a bit lame since Dilbert, Wally and the Pointy-haired Boss stopped wearing collars and ties.
One of my favourite blogs is written by Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert. He cleverly calls it Scott Adams' Blog. If only I could be so creative and make a fortune being sarcastic about the many deficiencies of our society. (Perhaps "society" isn't quite the right word nowadays, but I digress...)
Yesterday Mr. Adams gave us a little visual lesson on the evolution of American politics from the founding of the Republic to this year's campaign for the presidensity. Here it is.
Further reading: Scott Adams says Naval Ravikant’s essay "American Spring" inspired him. I read it and recommend you do so. Here's one paragraph which strikes me as particularly trenchant.
"The Elite Party runs the system and it basically works. The elite stay elite. Income may be taxed, but wealth compounds. The most belligerent and implacable of the masses are sent to fight in mercifully distant wars. Crime happens in other people’s neighborhoods. The prisons are full and everyone is being watched. The pie expands, slowly and unevenly, and all is well."
Hey, Republicans! Who ya gonna vote for? The bully or the zealot?! A look at the result of Super Saturday suggests that's what it's going to come down to.
Yes, Marco Rubio won the Commonpoverty of Puerto Rico, but so what. He'll be finished by the end of this month (lifetime pct .985) and the GOP Establishment will decide that it hates TrusTED Cruz marginally less than Donald Trump. But the betting now is that the Donald will will the convention, and quite possibly the nation.
Who sez? Scott Adams, the creator of Dilbert, that's who. Check out this clip from Fox & Friends yesterday morning.
This was the first time I saw Scott Adams on TV. I thought Dilbert was based on his own persona, but he really doesn't look anything like the eponymous engineer, does he.
A reader writes from Québec -- he reads the French version of this blog, no doubt -- to ask Walt to explain the results of the recent Canadian federal election.
In particular, our reader wants to know how it came about that le Nouveau Parti Démocratique, which has never held more than a single seat in la Belle Province, suddenly captured 58 of the 70 available. In even more particular, he wants to know whatever possessed the voters of the riding of Berthier-Maskinongé to elect Ruth-Ellen Brosseau.
Mme Brosseau may well be the hottest-ever MP. See pic. However she speaks only a little French, which one would think a handicap in a riding which is 98% francophone. But then Mme Brosseau could be forgiven for not knowing that, since she never set foot in the riding until yesterday, a week after the election. No, not even during the campaign. She spent most of the campaign on vacation in Las Vegas. How could the nice people of Berthier-Maskinongé have voted her in?
The answer to this poser may be found in Dilbert and the Way of the Weasel. There, the brilliant political analyst, Scott Adams, writes: Most voters are ignoramuses who get all of their opinions from paid TV ads.
If you doubt this thesis, look at the "ordinary people" shopping with you at the supermarket. (If you buy groceries at WalMart, don't stare too long or you'll damage your cerebral cortex.) You will observe that many of these "ordinary people" fill up their carts with nationally advertised brands of junk food. This in spite of the availability of equivalent house or no-name brands, usually on the very same shelf.
The generic potato chips or whatever are, as often as not, made by the very same company that produces the branded junk. And the generic junk is cheaper! Yet people buy Krapped foods (thanks to Adams for that one) rather than the no-name product. Why? Because "we seen it on TV!"
Still in doubt? Many malls now have "As Seen on TV" stores! People flock into these stores and flock off with shamwows and slap-chops which are the epitome of over-priced, useless crapola. Why? Because "we seen it on TV!" And here's the thing. Those shoppers are allowed to vote!
So, to win the votes of the "ordinary people", the parties praise (or vilify) the candidates, especially the party leaders, until people vote for (or against) them. The good bourgeois of Berthier-Maskinongé didn't vote for Mme Brosseau. They voted NDP/NPD because its leader, Smilin' Jack Layton, came over on TV as "the kind of guy you'd most want to have a beer with. We seen him on TV!"
Let's give the last words to Scott Adams.
My favorite thing that politicians say is "The voters aren't dumb." This is something that voters generally believe because they are dumb. I realize this sounds harsh. But if I'm wrong, and it's true that the voters are smart, despite allevidence to the contrary, it raises some troubling questions.
How uninformed must a voter be before it's okay to call him dumb?
If all the voters have roughly the same goals and the same information, but half of the voters vote one way and half vote the other way, doesn't that mean half of them are dumb?
How can we tell which half is the dumb half?
To which Walt would add this reminder. To win an election, you need only 50% + 1.
