Coffee With Scott Adams — Knowledge Archive August 24, 2026
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ive, I noticed on Twitter — I think this is true, but I would wait for a little more verification — it looks like MSNBC retweeted some Twitter user from Media Matters and added a blue checkmark next to the tweet with Photoshop. In other words, if someone who is not a blue checkmark on Twitter, MSNBC Photoshopped them a blue check to make their comment look more important. Now if that's true, that'…

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tty fake news. I mean that's sort of a smoking gun. But let's wait and see if that's true first.

All right, my favorite story of the day — well, I've got a few favorite stories. Did you see that we have put life on the moon? Apparently we recently — we meaning people who have spaceships — put these little things called tardigrades. I've never seen these. It's a microscopic... we put some of these. They were dehydrated and flown to the moon. So that we may have actually — what we did actually — we put life on the moon. But what kind of life did we pick? We picked the only creature in the world whose mouth and face and ass look exactly the same. This is a creature so dumb that when it eats, the only way it can tell if it's shoving food in its mouth or its ass is by looking at which way its toenails a

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re pointing. That's it. Otherwise its mouth and its ass are the same. And so I said to myself, huh, I did not know that nature had a creature that can talk about politics on Twitter. I'll let that sink in a little bit. All right. So of course all the news is about gun violence and mass shootings and white supremacists. Let's talk about that. Tucker Carlson got in a little — well, he wasn't in any…

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