National Cartoonists SocietyThe National Cartoonists Society (NCS) is an organization of professional cartoonists in the United States. It presents the National Cartoonists Society Awards. The Society was born in 1946 when groups of cartoonists got together to entertain the troops. They enjoyed each other's company and decided to meet on a regular basis.
DilbertDilbert is an American comic strip which was written and illustrated by Scott Adams, first published on April 16, 1989. It is known for its satiricaloffice humor about a white-collar, micromanaged office with engineer Dilbert as the title character. It has led to dozens of books, an animated television series, a video game, and hundreds of themed merchandise items. Dilbert Future and The Joy of Work are among the best-selling books in the series.
God's DebrisGod's Debris: A Thought Experiment is a 2001 novella by Dilbert creator Scott Adams. The introduction disclaims any personal views held by the author, "The opinions and philosophies expressed by the characters are not my own, except by coincidence in a few spots not worth mentioning." God's Debris espouses a philosophy based on the idea that the simplest explanation tends to be the best.
LoserthinkLoserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America is a 2019 non-fiction book by Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip. Adams suggests that many otherwise intelligent people are trapped by unproductive ways of thinking which he terms as loserthink. The reason for this, he says, is they do not have experience across multiple domains and thus are not equipped to think more productively.San Jose Mercury News West MagazineSan Jose Mercury News West Magazine, also referred to as West and West Magazine, was a Sunday magazine published by San Jose Mercury News from 1982 to c. 1997. West Magazine received numerous awards and was recognized both for its articles and investigative journalism, as well as its art design.
PandeismBelief that God created the universe by becoming it Deism Origins Deus (Deus otiosus) Logos § Ancient Greek philosophy Neoplatonism § The One Chinese theology § Confucian theology Averroism Socinianism Unmoved mover Watchmaker God Movements 18th-century England and France Christian deism Pandeism (in Asia) (and Christianity) (criticism) Spinozism Cult of the Supreme Being Theophilanthropy Deistic evolution Natural theology Polydeism Notable figures Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke Matthew Tindal Voltaire Charles Blount Thomas Chubb Thomas Jefferson Thomas Paine Guido von List Cayetano Ripoll False forms Ceremonial deism Moralistic therapeutic deism Criticism Catholic Church John Leland Edward Stillingfleet § Philosophical controversy Anthony Bliss John Jackson Johann Georg Hamann Charles Jennens Religious thought of Edmund Burke Richard Blackmore § Non-epic writing James McGready Valentin Ernst Löscher Continental prophecies § Themes Friedrich Julius Stahl vte Part of a series onReligion Outline Index Timeline Aspects Behaviour Clergy Conversion Denomination Disaffiliation Education School Laity Monasticism Prayer Ritual Symbols Text Worship Beliefs Acosmism Animism Anthropopathism Dualism and Nondualism Fideism Mysticism Omnism Spiritualism Shamanism Transcendentalism Theism Classical theism Henotheism Monotheism Kathenotheism Panentheism Pantheism Polytheism Transtheism Concepts Afterlife Cult Deity Elite religion Experience Meditation Faith Folk religion Lived religion Miracle Mythology Prophecy Reincarnation Revelation Salvation Spirit Soul Supernatural Truth Society Discrimination Freedom Gender Happiness LGBTQ people Politics Science Sexuality Suicide Vegetarianism Violence Persecution War Wealth Studies Anthropology Cognitive science Comparative Eschatology Evolutionary origin Evolutionary psychology History Neurotheology Philosophy Psychology Sociology Soteriology Theology Theories about religion Religions Historical Ancient Egyptian Ancient Greek Gnosticism Ancient Roman Mithraism Ancient Mesopotamian Prehistoric Proto-Indo-Iranian World Buddhism Christianity Hinduism Jainism Islam Sikhism Indigenous African traditional Chinese Taoism Judaism Korean Native American Mandaeism Samaritanism Shinto Vietnamese Yazidism Zoroastrianism New Bábism Baháʼí Goddess Modern paganism New Age Tenrikyo UFO religion Raëlism Category Portalvte Pandeism, or pan-deism, is a theological doctrine that combines aspects of pantheism with aspects of deism.
WebcomicWebcomics (also known as online comics or Internet comics) are comics published on the Internet, such as on a website or a mobile app. While many webcomics are published exclusively online, others are also published elsewhere, such as in magazines, newspapers, or comic books. Webcomics can be compared to self-published print comics in that anyone with an Internet connection can publish their own webcomic.
Andrews McMeel SyndicationAndrews McMeel Syndication (formerly Universal Uclick) is an American content syndicate which provides syndication in print, online and on mobile devices for a number of lifestyle and opinion columns, comic strips, cartoons, and various other content. Some of its best-known products include Dear Abby, Doonesbury, Ziggy, Garfield, Ann Coulter, Richard Roeper and News of the Weird. A subsidiary of Andrews McMeel Universal, it is headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri.
Prostate cancerMale reproductive organ cancerMedical conditionProstate cancer is the uncontrolled growth of cells in the prostate, a gland in the male reproductive system below the bladder. Abnormal growth of prostate tissue is usually detected through screening tests, typically blood tests that check for prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels. Those with high levels of PSA in their blood are at increased risk for developing prostate cancer. Diagnosis requires a biopsy of the prostate.
SatireLiterary and art genre with a style of humor based on parody1872 edition of Punch, a ground-breaking British magazine of popular humour, including a great deal of satire of the contemporary, social, and political scene Prose genres Poetry genres Dramatic genresComedyLibrettoMusicalOperaPlayhistoricalmoralSatireScriptTragedyTragicomedyHistoryAncientMedievalEarly medievalEarly modernRenaissance18th19th20thContemporary21st MediaVoiceaudiobookspeechWritingbookdigital electronicsebookmanuscript Lists and outlinesOutlineGlossaryBooksEpicfolk-epicsPoetsWritersMovementspoetry groupsCyclesLiterary awardspoetryShort story collection / CycleLost literary worklacunaTheory and criticismSociologyMagazinesCompositionLanguageNarrativeComparativeCircleSocietyPost-literate SocietyPeerFeudEstateWorkshopCircleSatire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of individuals, corporations, government, or society itself into improvement.
White-collar workerA white-collar worker is a person who performs knowledge-based, aptitude-based, managerial, or administrative work generally performed in an office or similar setting.
Rumble (company)Rumble, Inc. is an American AI, infrastructure, and video company headquartered in Longboat Key, Florida. It was founded in 2013 by Canadian tech entrepreneur Chris Pavlovski. After the 2020 United States presidential election, the site became a major platform for news and influencers on the right and far-right.*As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.