Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 23, 2026
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How weird is that? And they said, yeah, it's really weird. We normally could have people filling the hallways but today, no real reason, just nobody's here. And I keep running into these situations where I see fewer and fewer people at the same time. Have you noticed that? It's called social distancing. So suddenly the complexity of my personal life has shrunk and shrunk way down. It's way less c…

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you're clever but maybe other people don't. You know who you are. If you have ever tweeted that actor Rob Reiner is a quote meathead, you may not be a creative person because you're the same people who tweeted me, or actually it's people on the other side tweeted me saying that they've just discovered that I'm not actually the cartoonist but I'm really the pointy-haired boss in my comic strip.

Please, if I can beg of you one thing, you can insult me all you want. That's cool. I'm used to that. You can insult Rob Reiner all you want. I've done it myself. I enjoy it honestly. Insulting Rob Reiner is one of the things I enjoy. And if other people enjoy insulting me, well okay, good for you. But can you be a little more creative? A little more creative than accusing them of being a character they played on TV? You just need to raise your game a little bit. I'm begging you. Only because there's a certain level of lack of creativity that hurts my eyes sort of in the back, you know, when I read this. If I read one more tweet calling Rob Reiner a meathead, there's like this shooting pain behind my eyes and I go, ah, wow, it's so uncreative. So that's just a personal favor. I'm just begging you, just stop being uncreative. Call them something else. Anything else.

All right, many of you saw the video. It's a little viral video of a couple of guys who got stopped in their car by protesters, I think it was Portland. And they were surrounded by the protesters and the protesters, at least the ones in the video, looked mostly like white men. And they were insisting that the men in the car, who may have been Hispanic, I don't know if it matters to the story, you can decide, but they were being forced to declare Black Lives Matter.

Now one of the guys i

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n the car was like a little iffy on it. He's like, okay, I'll put the fist up a little bit. And then they insisted that he wasn't enthusiastic enough. Like he wasn't really putting his fist up. He was just sort of raising it a little bit. So they were on him and it was pretty threatening. It looked pretty dangerous actually. If they had resisted more than they did, it looked like their vehicle wou…

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