Scott Adams' BlogThe Thinking Filters
As you watch pundits discuss the presidential elections, you might be wondering who is right, who is wrong, who is wise, and who is dumb. To that end, I put together the the following “high ground” chart.
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New Hampshire Election Fraud Prediction
The New Hampshire primary tomorrow should be interesting.
As I often say, wherever you have large stakes, an opportunity for wrong-doing, and a small risk of getting caught, wrong-doing happens. That’s a universal law of human awfulness. When humans CAN cheat, they do. Or at least enough of them do.
0 CommentsThe GOP Debate Scorecard (Master Persuader Series)
If your firewall is being uncooperative, see the image on Twitter here.
If you have a life, and you missed the GOP debate on Saturday night, let me give you the highlights.
0 CommentsFriday Trump Joke
Trump offered to build a ballroom for the White House. I assume he will use an adjoining room for the rest of his body.
That is all. Have a good weekend.
0 CommentsThe Pledge of Allegiance
Imagine that you go to a football game in the United States. The announcer asks the crowd to rise for the Pledge of Allegiance. Everyone stands and faces the flag. Except you. In this thought experiment you’re a citizen of the United States and a patriot. You were born in America and you served with honor in the military. But you don’t like pledges. It feels too brainwashy. So in a demonstration of free speech, you sit it out.
How does that go over with the rest of the crowd?
0 CommentsSpooky Alert! Spooky Alert!
I mentioned recently that my 2004 book, The Religion War, featured a leader named Cruz rising in the United States and bringing a war of annihilation to the Caliphate. Now we have candidate Ted Cruz doing well in the polls and stating his intentions to annihilate ISIS. Obviously that is a coincidence, but a fun one.
But where I went wrong was the first name. My character in the book was named Horatio Cruz, not Ted Cruz.
Now watch this video of 18-year old Ted Cruz talking about wanting to play a character named Horatio. It happens in the first 30 seconds.
Yeah, spooky.
It’s still a coincidence, but a fun one.
0 CommentsScoring My Iowa Fraud Call
I got a lot of scorn this week for declaring Iowa a rigged election based on the vote totals alone, and no real evidence. Strangers on the Internet called me pathetic, desperate, and a few other words.
0 CommentsNew Hampshire Prediction (Master Persuader Series)
In my experience on this planet, anything that is both important and corruptible (without detection) is already corrupted. Athletes are using performance-enhancing drugs, politicians are using dirty tricks, hedge funds are using insider information, and so on. It’s a universal truth. I doubt you could find anything in our world that is both important and corruptible yet isn’t already corrupted.
0 CommentsNews Flash: Cartoonist Gets One Wrong!
My predictions about the Iowa caucus were wrong! I am fallible after all. Time to eat some crow, as we say in America. Let me at it!
Nom-nom-nom. Gulp. Mmmmm… That’s good crow.
This is one of those situations in which having no sense of embarrassment comes in handy. I look forward to your brutal mocking in the comments.
0 CommentsThe Cruz Prophesy
This is just for fun. I’m not psychic.
But as coincidences go, this one is a bit freaky.
In my 2004 novel, The Religion War (sequel to God’s Debris) I imagined an American leader named Cruz – a man of God – taking a war of extermination to the Caliphate. Here’s an excerpt.
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