by Didact | Jun 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
If you’ve been listening to heavy metal, or hard rock, for any length of time, you HAVE heard of METALLICA. You HAVE heard, at the very least, the Black Album. If you are a serious metalhead, you have certainly heard their seminal first four albums-...
by Didact | Jun 11, 2014 | Uncategorized
Redonkulas.com, the hilarious commentary site maintained by the one and only Terrence Popp, recently celebrated its first year of making fart jokes, dick jokes, mocking various idiots, and general all-around tomfoolery with a best-of video that was almost as funny as...
by Didact | Jun 10, 2014 | Uncategorized
Vox has some rather amusing, quite unkind, and (mostly) accurate things to say about women learning the art of Krav Maga: There is a very big difference between training and the real thing. There is nearly as big a difference between drill and full-contact sparring....
by Didact | Jun 7, 2014 | Uncategorized
Every time there is yet another public shooting in this country- or, well, anywhere else, for that matter- the usual suspects come crawling out of the woodwork with their outrageously outrageous OUTRAGE about how Gun Violence Is Out Of Control and therefore...
by Didact | Jun 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
Seventy years ago today, over a million men stormed the shores of the French coast at Normandy, on a day that has since gone down in history as the most important offensive action of World War II. The Nazis knew what was coming and so had left quite a few nasty...
by Didact | Jun 6, 2014 | Uncategorized
The latest album by Swedish metal-rollers VOLBEAT was released last year. Called “Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies”, it was actually a notch below its outstanding predecessor, “Beyond Hell/Above Heaven”, but was a very solid chunk of heavy,...
by Didact | Jun 4, 2014 | Uncategorized
Actually, this is Hollywood logic To argue that the quality of Hollywood’s artistic output has “declined” over the last few decades is rather like saying that it is “a bit windy” during a hurricane. If you look at the current list of...
by Didact | Jun 1, 2014 | Christianity, Uncategorized
This past Memorial Day weekend was an occasion for both sombre reflection and great joy for many families across the country- including my own. It was a time to reflect upon those who paid the ultimate price for the rights and freedoms that the rest of us enjoy...
by Didact | May 31, 2014 | Uncategorized
RJ made the right bet about good old George Clooney: Rumor is that Clooney wants to run for office and needs a wife to look the part. Well hey, look what just turned up: George Clooney is planning a move in to politics, sources claim. The actor, a noted...
by Didact | May 26, 2014 | Uncategorized
“… The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion… and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself- ultimate cost for perfect value.” — Lt. Colonel Jean V....
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