Scott Adams, ‘Dilbert’ Creator, Dies at 68

[Quillz]

"Calvin and Hobbes" was my favorite comic strip.

Same. Bill Watterson was the rare case of someone ending a strip when they were out of ideas and refused to let it go on too long and become stale. He also refused virtually all licensing deals, which is why there is almost no merchandise and there were no TV shows. And since the 90s, has managed to remain completely out of the public eye. Either he got a lot of money from the strip, or he just found some other job to do and kept quiet.

[kalvado]

People are a mixture of good things and awful things.  I try not to judge them just by one or the other.  I understand Picasso was abusive to all of his wives.

Sure, but should probably end up judging them one way or another in the end rather than not at all...

You can judge their work separately. Would you drive on a bridge knowing that designer was a great engineer, but a monster at home?

Entertainment is optional.  Transportation, less so.

Are you saying engineers get a pass on whatever they might do out of office?

Leave Robert Moses out of this.

I suspect a lot of people today wholeheartedly want to be able to do things Moses style. Including those who are very  much upset with his legacy.

[Rothman]

"Calvin and Hobbes" was my favorite comic strip.

Same. Bill Watterson was the rare case of someone ending a strip when they were out of ideas and refused to let it go on too long and become stale. He also refused virtually all licensing deals, which is why there is almost no merchandise and there were no TV shows. And since the 90s, has managed to remain completely out of the public eye. Either he got a lot of money from the strip, or he just found some other job to do and kept quiet.

Didn't stop people from using Calvin urinating window clings...

[kphoger]

Didn't stop people from using Calvin urinating window clings...

Which he doesn't like, but which he hasn't wanted to bother fighting.

[kkt]

Didn't stop people from using Calvin urinating window clings...

Which he doesn't like, but which he hasn't wanted to bother fighting.

He is wise.  Fighting it would only bring free publicity to the window clings.

[Molandfreak]

Because we all have bad thoughts and ideas and beliefs.  And, for the most part, we keep those to ourselves because we know they're controversial.  When it comes to the most awful of them, we might voice them at some point, but then the other person points out why they're bad, and there's a good chance we'll learn from that experience and even change our minds.

Sorry, I haven't once thought that returning to a segregated society was a good idea. Propping up the people who do think that way gives them power.

[Bobby5280]

People wanting to take the US back to the 1950's are definitely looking upon that period of history with rose-colored glasses and a salad bar mentality. The popular culture may have been pretty conservative, but labor unions were much stronger back then. Marginal tax rates were far higher than they are now.

Segregation and government-institutionalized racism was an extremely bad thing, yet it's one of the features from that period those on the far-right really like whether they want to openly admit it or not. Today mixed race couples and children who come from such couples are one of the faster growing demographics in the US. Bigots sure don't like how that sort of thing has become pretty normal.

[elsmere241]

Thomas Edison neglected his wife and their oft-ill son.  After she died, Edison remarried and neglected that wife and their children as well.

And yet, one of his frustrations was that he could never find a woman with whom to discuss his work.

[kkt]

Thomas Edison neglected his wife and their oft-ill son.  After she died, Edison remarried and neglected that wife and their children as well.

And yet, one of his frustrations was that he could never find a woman with whom to discuss his work.

Well, yeah.  Not that many women with scientific or engineering backgrounds back then.