by Didact | May 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
JACKYL are deep-fried Southern rock at its hillbilly best. I discovered them after stumbling across their album, Best in Show. It is one of the very few albums that I’ve ever bought just because I really liked the cover art. Turns out that it kicked all kinds of...
by Didact | May 11, 2016 | Uncategorized
LTC Kratman points out one critically important aspect of 4th-Generation Warfare that I missed in my last post on the subject: My major problem with the notion of 4GW is that it isn’t 4GW; it’s that it’s 0GW V. 2.0. It’s simply a descent into /...
by Didact | May 5, 2016 | Uncategorized
Happy STAR WARS day, y’all: I Don’t Normally Care for Cosplay, but… It’s always fun to date a girl who has a bit of a Boba Fettish Obi-Wan Was Kind of a Douche… Good Advice EVERYTHING Sounds Better with Metal Quick! Before George Screws...
by Didact | May 4, 2016 | Uncategorized
It’s all over bar the shouting now, apparently- The Donald is in fact going to be the Republican nominee for POTUS: Triumphant Donald Trump claimed victory in the Republican presidential contest on Tuesday night, after Ted Cruz dropped out of the race following...
by Didact | May 3, 2016 | Uncategorized
Dammit, how is any evil genius megalomaniac supposed to go about smashing electrons together at light-speed in order to create a world-destroying superweapon re-create the conditions that existed at the start of the Universe, if those...
by Didact | May 2, 2016 | Uncategorized
These days, it’s a $1.2 BILLION bomber I finished reading The 4th Generation Warfare Handbook by William S. Lind and Lt. Col. Gregory A. Thiele (USMC) a few days ago. It was a rather interesting distillation of wisdom and ideas from two of the finest...
by Didact | Apr 30, 2016 | Uncategorized
I’ve often thought that Tuomas Huolopainen- the mastermind behind NIGHTWISH, a.k.a. “THE best symphonic metal band there is”- has his head shoved up his own arse far too often for his own good. All you have to do is listen to tracks like “The...
by Didact | Apr 29, 2016 | Uncategorized
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by Didact | Apr 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
… Sod off. And shove that newspaper you were about to whack us with up where the Sun don’t shine while you’re at it: For the second year in a row, nominations for the prestigious Hugo Awards for science fiction & fantasy have been swept by the...
by Didact | Apr 27, 2016 | Uncategorized
Which he absolutely would have been: EXMORTUS were the opening act for the truly almighty AMON AMARTH last Friday night. Now normally, I could not care less who opens for bands like IRON MAIDEN, AMON AMARTH, or HELLOWEEN; I applaud them politely while mentally telling...
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