Adams and Eves

The root cause of the DEI debacle is batshit crazy white women who don’t know how anything works outside the female experience.

– Scott Adams

It’s been a year since Andrews McMeel cancelled Dilbert, a decision that Scott Adams blames on the DEI movement. Freed from the shackles of syndicate oppression, Adams is an unapologetic right-wing extremist. He says Democrats are playing the victim card, while claiming to be a DEI victim himself.

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2024/03/30/scott-adams-reality/

Pondering Numbers

1. As a young comic book kid, I looked forward to seeing the circulation figures in the October issues. Total Paid Circulation was the number that mattered. The New Yorker is the last magazine I subscribe to by mail, and the total paid distribution of the print edition is down to only about 650,000 copies.


2. I have a digital-only subscription to The New York Times. It recently had a feature on physical fitness, and I did a double-take on the percentiles by age and time to run one mile. When I was 17-21 years old I could run a mile in 6:15. I was never good enough a runner to qualify being on a track team. It’s laughable that I was in the top 1% of males. How many people run at all after high school, anyway?


3. You know how I go on about the dominance of Epic Systems in the electronic medical records market? Here’s a chart showing how Epic has performed since I retired, relative to the other two prime vendors.

Feeling Loanly?

I put myself through college, which was something a person could do while attending a small state school fifty years ago. Today, attending that same state college costs $20,000/year. No student could possibly earn enough to put a dent in that cost.

John Oliver once again connects the relevant dots and provides a clear explanation of a topic. This time it’s student loans.