Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive May 24, 2026
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g the news somewhat objectively and they are really freaking out. Can you imagine that? Can you imagine finding out that your news source was never news in the first place? Imagine that. Imagine learning that your news source wasn't actually news because the change that's happening is changing toward news. I don't even know if anybody is arguing that. I haven't seen anybody say here's what they do…

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ow occasionally she'd play like a six-foot-tall Russian woman and then that would be more like a fair fight. But it wasn't really fair. It wasn't really fun watching a monster play a mouse. Yeah, there was no point in it.

Now let me say the positive thing. Even the Williams sisters are the greatest female athletes probably of all time. I don't know. I'm not sure what the standard is but they're in the conversation for the greatest female athletes of all time. So I don't want to take away anything from their accomplishments. I'm just saying it wasn't fun to watch because they were just too dominant. Which is different from watching say Michael Jordan play. I could watch Michael Jordan play any kind of team. It wouldn't matter because you were sort of watching his amazingness. And watching Serena and Venus's amazingness was sort of just like watching a man play a woman basically. It didn't seem that amazing.

So Dilbert got banned in some newspapers today. I don't know how many. Wouldn't you like to know what got me banned in newspapers? I bet you would. Oh I'll read it to you. All right. So it's just Dilbert talking to the boss so you don't need to see the picture. So just Dilbert talking to the boss and the boss says to Dilbert, "Your job performance is excellent but your wokeness score has me concerned. I have several reports of you using pronouns without even asking if they are the right ones." And Dilbert says, "Who reported me for that?" The boss says, "People wh

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o are better than you." And that was banned in at least one Gannett chain newspaper. Now if it's banned in one newspaper within a chain it doesn't mean the other ones didn't run it but there's a good chance they didn't run it. Now this is the, and by the way this is my softener. This is just like my fabric softener joke. This one's not the edgy one. The edgy ones are coming pretty fast. So in the…

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