by Didact | Jun 15, 2016 | Uncategorized
There is apparently a football match coming up between Poland and Germany… or something. The particulars don’t actually interest me. What DOES interest me is the way in which the greatest TV show on Earth- back before it became completely...
by Didact | Jun 14, 2016 | Uncategorized
But this bit of news about the UEFA Cup 2016 caught my eye- apparently a bunch of football (that’s “soccer” to you non-English-speaking Americans) fans got into a bit of a punch-up before the Russia-England game in France: England and Russia...
by Didact | Jun 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
There is no disguising it any more- the Third Great Jihad is here, now, within America’s shores: In appearance on Fox News Channel on Sunday, Breitbart National Security senior editor Dr. Sebastian Gorka reacted to the mass shooting in Orlando, FL early...
by Didact | Jun 13, 2016 | Uncategorized
New SABATON album on its way. Need I say more? Judging by their last two albums, this one is going to SLAY. This one has kind of the same sort of groove to it that “Hearts of Iron” did from Heroes, and that is one of my favourite songs by this awesome...
by Didact | Jun 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
There is precisely one legitimate reaction to the claims of a so-called “energy field master” that he can block any incoming attack by generating a “chi shield”: This is the moment a no touch ‘energy shield master’ receives a heavy...
by Didact | Jun 10, 2016 | Kipling, Uncategorized
One of Kipling’s best poems, this one- referenced, rather fittingly, as a marching song in Starship Troopers, and still one of the finest examples anywhere of what it really means to be a soldier in service to Queen and country: To the legion of the lost ones,...
by Didact | Jun 8, 2016 | Uncategorized
To precisely nobody’s surprise, the “new and improved” TOP GEAR sucks harder than your housekeeper’s vacuum cleaner: The BBC show, presented by Chris Evans, has fallen below 3 million viewers for its second episode of the new...
by Didact | Jun 7, 2016 | Uncategorized
On June 6th, 1944, over one million Allied troops stormed the beaches of the French coast at Normandy, in what would become the first phase of a massive assault designed to bring the Third Reich to its knees. It was an invasion that could easily have failed- indeed,...
by Didact | Jun 6, 2016 | Kipling, Uncategorized
I referenced this poem in my Memorial Day post, but I only picked out like two great stanzas from one of Kipling’s best ever poems. Unlike a lot of triumphalist poems or songs, this one doesn’t present imperial Britain as a hegemony built on rainbows and...
by Didact | Jun 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
Michael Bisping is now the new UFC Middleweight Champion?! WTFH?!?!!! Wow. Just… WOWWWWW. Don’t get me wrong, I’m very happy to see Luke Rockhold get knocked down a few pegs. He is a great fighter who looks like he could wipe the floor with just...
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