Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive October 12, 2026
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the lizard squad. But before we get to that fun news, all you need to enjoy this in the maximum possible way — and why would you settle for anything less? Frankly, would you? No, no, you're not going to settle for less. So get your copper mug or glass, tankard, chalice, diner canteen, jug or flask, a vessel of any kind, and get ready to maximize your experience with the little thing I call the si…

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p too much. It was just as good as I thought it would be. Sometimes I think I'm exaggerating. Then no, not exaggerating at all.

Story number one. The fellow named Tyler Bowyer, he reports that he was elected to the GOP chair in Maricopa County and he says he met with then-Senator McCain, who is now the late Senator McCain. And he said he met with him just out of respect for the office. And this is what he said: he tried to buy me off by offering local chamber money, chamber of commerce I guess, local chamber money. He said he controlled it. He wasn't shy about it. It didn't work.

And now what do you think of that story? Does that sound true? Well Senator McCain is not here to defend himself, so it's a little bit unfair because the person isn't here to defend himself. But I don't see anything about it that strikes me as a lie. I mean it doesn't seem like something you would make up because it's got this detail about the chamber money he said he controlled. That's not exactly the kind of lie you would make up, right? If you're going to make this up as a lie you would say Senator McCain said he had some money, you know, and he would put it my way or something. But you wouldn't say something so specific that he controlled the chamber money. And that's pretty specific. I think he's telling the truth.

And my only comment on this is that I prefer bribers who don't get caught.

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some employees of Google and Alphabet are trying to organize to create a union. We don't know how well they'll do. But I wondered, why do you need a union at Google? Don't you always hear it's like the best place to work and people are fighting to work there and salaries are good and benefits are great and it's a prestigious job in the middle of the most active industry in the world and a great pl…

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