Scott Meyer

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How to Learn Your Lesson

I have had arguments that have lasted for years. Decades, even. They’ve endured long after the person I was arguing with probably forgot the conversation, or even my name. That is not a good thin...

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How To Deal With Life’s Setbacks

It’s not a powerful effect, black licorice raising my blood pressure, but it is measurable enough that I’ve had to pace myself with my massive trove of the black gold. I don’t understand why ...

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How to Give Your Superhero Story an Optimistic Tone

Golly, I wonder what has me thinking about superhero stories with an optimistic tone?

In my opinion, this has been the best summer for superhero movies in a long time, and the tone, overall, ...

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How to Use Your Own Ignorance as a Source of Entertainment

I remember the first sporting event I ever attended. I was young enough that I don’t remember how young I was, just that I wasn’t in kindergarten yet.

My older brother was in the very ear...

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How To Understand Our Differences

There is something infinitely sad to me about the idea that women need purses because their pants and dresses have been made less practical in an effort to make them look more feminine, yet men oft...

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How to Evolve Your Position

All I’m saying is, if Harlan Ellison . . . Harlan Ellison feels the need to defend women from your advances, that’s saying something. It’s like saying “Neil Gaiman would hav...

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How to See What Was Really Happening

The car was a 1978 Subaru DL Wagon. It was not, by the standards at the time, impressive. But it was a GREAT car. Dependable, economical, pr

The car was a 1978 Subaru DL Wagon. It was not, by...

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How to React to an Obvious Falsehood

A lot of people will tell you that Big Ben is the name of the clock, not the tower. A real pedant will explain that Big Ben is the name of the largest of the bells that are housed in the tower, pre...

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How to Draw Attention to a Terrible Wrong

This is maybe one of those comics I did just for me. I hope you enjoyed it too, but really, it is just four panels of me reveling in my own geekery. But come on! 2025-07-14 07:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post

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How to Recalibrate Your Expectations

Occasionally, I start watching one of those shows about the paranormal because I find the topic interesting. I tend to lose interest when my BS detector goes off, which is usually within the first ...

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How to Appreciate an Unrealistic Premise

WARNING: this commentary gets a little blue.

Sometimes a comic will come directly from an entire conversation. Other times, the bit that makes the comic is just the usable tip of a funnier, b...

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How to Predict the Future

It is true that an A.I. tried to blackmail a person into not deactivating it.

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How to Handle the Unexpected

Back in the original run, Mullet Boss played the trombone. I took the trombone away from him and thrust it upon Rick for three reasons:

1. Mullet Boss doesn’t really show up anymore. I didn...

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How to Analyze a New Discovery

My mother was a divorcée, raising three boys. She always put food on the table, but if you’ve raised (or been) a teenage boy, you know that the concept of “enough food” is theoretical at bes...

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I recently did an interview with a student journalist. I think it came out pretty good! Please give it a...

How to Eliminate the Unnecessary

My father is an enthusiastic and prolific curser, but not an imaginative one. He has a few favorite phrases that he leans on, shuffling them seemingly at random, like a magnetic poetry kit you buy ...