Scott Adams is obviously very intelligent. Most people are taken aback by his confrontational net-persona. However, if you try to look at this persona as someth

Scott Adams is obviously very intelligent. Most people are taken aback by his confrontational net-persona. However, if you try to look at this persona as something constructed, as a fun project, and as a tool to drive traffic to his blog, you can see the brilliance. Yes, he has covered just about any extreme position you can imagine. He's gone to anti-feminism caves, to anti-religion deserts, to abortion hell and recently dived into the "I viscerally hate anti-euthanasia people". So what? He raises valid points, and he raises them in a fashion that drives traffic to his blog, therefore maximizing the probability of discussion. As a side effect, he weeds out from the discussion those people who are not rational enough to see his extremist position as fabricated, and who respond emotionally. Win-win. He's a dialectic genius.