Scott Adams, the US cartoonist who wrote and illustrated the comic strip Dilbert, has died of cancer at the age of 68. His ex-wife Shelly Miles announced his death on Tuesday during a live stream of his podcast, Real Coffee with Scott Adams. The satirical cartoon strip - about a competent but frustrated engineer and his dysfunctional workplace environment - was first published in 1989, and went on to feature in more than 2,000 newspapers in 65 countries. The character also later appeared in books, an animated TV series and video game. But in 2023, his comic strip was cancelled by newspapers including the Washington Post after Adams was accused of making racist comments about black people.

The older I get, the more I appreciate Jeff Spicoli's exegesis of the Revolutionary War and the Founders' motivations for the Declaration of Independence and the RW. For those Loyal Readers who may have missed this cinematic diamond-in-the-rough: Toward the end of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" (1982), the infamous History teacher at RH, Mr. Hand, travels to Spicoli's house and bedroom to administer an in-person verbal exam, mostly so Spicoli won't be held back to spend another year in Mr. Hand's classroom "on our Time." Look at the bright side: once ChatGPT improves a little, HR departments and editors everywhere will be able to look at Scott Adams' body of work and his recent podcast statements, determine that he is a racist, and prevent him from ever being hired to draw a cartoon again. The people making the decision may not know anything whatsoever about Scott Adams, Racism, or Cartoons, but they will believe what ChatGPT says, because it is displayed on a monitor connected to a computer connected to the Internet connected to a superior form of intelligence, so it must be correct. It also saves time and money they might have otherwise spent doing their own research to reach a conclusion.