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Apologies

Apologies to my email subscribers for the multiple emails today. I had some database problems this week (which, you may have noticed, led to one email going out without an image of the comic attached) but in the course of fixing them, I inadvertently triggered the resending of the last three days of strips. Everything […]

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Male culpa

I’ve enjoyed playing in the Dilbert universe, but lately, I’ve been realizing how white and male it is. When female or non-white characters appear in Dilbert, they tend to function only as stereotypes, and I’m afraid I haven’t shaken that up nearly as much as I could have. I’ll try to do a bit more […]

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The fault lies not in our reality stars

Unless our Pussy-Grabber-in-Chief invokes emergency powers to suspend Congressional investigations and Presidential elections, we’ll soon be rid of him. The problem of Donald Trump will still remain, however, even after the specific damage he’s done is ameliorated, because the problem of Donald Trump is not really about Donald Trump himself. The real problem, which Trump […]

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Dissonance

Scott Adams has made a kind of parlor game out of spotting “cognitive dissonance” in critics of Donald Trump. He believes that exhibiting the “tells” of cognitive dissonance (such as long pauses) shows that a person has been confronted with facts or reasoning that have shaken their belief system, and the pause is them rallying […]

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Trump as Hitler

Is Trump Hitler? At the risk of calling up unpleasant Democratic memories: it depends on your definition of “is”. Is he going to send 4 million scapegoats to their direct deaths? No. Is he going to try conquering the world militarily? No. If there are progressives that really believe this, then that’s just unfortunate for […]

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