Dilbert

Dilbert Watch: Okay, "it's called leadership," but is a manned mission to Mars launched by Dilbert's Pointy-Haired Boss a good idea?

"Two ways to win and no way to lose"? Really?DILBERT     by Scott Adams"Volunteers for Mars Trip" (Monday, Dec. 26)[Click on any strip to enlarge.]by KenI don't think any additional comment is required for this lovely Dilbert sequence, which I first assumed was completed Friday (but see below).

TV Watch: Working our way extremely circuitously toward "Inspector George Gently"

DILBERT'S WALLY SORTS OUT THEOPTIMISTS AND THE PESSIMISTS[Click to enlarge.]by KenSo here we are again in the Northeast having another Storm Watch Weekend, this time all mooshed together with Labor Day Weekend -- and never mind that today we've enjoyed an utterly lovely day as poor Hermine, the still steadily approaching storm, keeps dropping down on the charts, from hurricane to tropical storm to "post-tr

If Soterios Johnson leaves WNYC, does that mean the world is coming to an end?

Plus: Dilbert's CEO on "Making the world a better place"Soterios abandoning his WNYC mic? Is this really allowed?by KenYeah, sure, the world is going to hell in a handbasket -- Trump, Hillary, Nice, Istanbul, Munich, blah blah blah. Normally I would be happy to solve those problems, but this week we've got a real problem.

Weekend meditation: In human interactions, there are forces more powerful even than yoga, feng shui, and Irish dancing

Can there really be a force more powerful than Irish dancing?by KenThe pen is mightier than the sword, we've been told, and it's a theory, at least. No doubt there have been time when it has been true. There are fewer claims, you'll note, for the superior might of the sword of such weapons as handguns, automatic rifles, conventional bombs, and thermonuclear devices.You'd think more attention would have been paid to what we might call the Hierarchy of Forces.

Three views of success -- from Dilbert's Wally, Tyrell Wellick (of "Mr. Robot"), and the great Robert Benchley

DILBERT by Scott AdamsJuly 9: "Hard Work Is Necessary For Success"[Click to enlarge.]"I take Life as it comes, and although I grouse a great deal and sometimes lie on the floor and kick and scream and refuse to eat my supper, I find that taking Life as it comes is the only way to meet it. It isn't a very satisfactory way, but it is the only way. (I should be very glad to try any other way that anyone can suggest.