A couple of days ago, when the news emerged that former President Joe Biden has prostate cancer that has spread to his bones and is therefore uncurable, you may also have noticed the news that Dilbert cartoon creator Scott Adams has the same cancer.
Adams' case is apparently more advanced, and he said in his podcast that the pain was constant and intolerable and that he expects to live for only a few months (see this New York Times story for more).
Adams of course is a "cancelled nonperson" whose comic strip was dropped a couple of years ago after he made racist remarks. He also has political beliefs that I don't care for.
But I still like his Dilbert comics, which Adams has continued to produce (they can be accessed by paying $3 a month for subscription on X.com). So in still reading the comics, I guess I'm treating Adams roughly the same way that Robert Anton Wilson treated Ezra Pound.
A couple of Adams' comics from this year are above. I haven't gotten permission to reprint them -- I don't know how I would do that, I don't see how Adams would have the ability to respond to an inquiry, particularly now -- but I hope it's understood that I'm drawing attention to his paid subscription offering.
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