by Didact | Dec 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
Riddle me this, Batman: how do you push a feminist’s buttons to the point of a near-total meltdown? Well, you could try this approach. Or you could do what I did a few weeks ago when my little sister came over to stay with me. This is pretty much how the...
by Didact | Dec 19, 2013 | fat girl jihad, Uncategorized
I’ve been watching Jennifer Lawrence parade her somewhat questionable acting skills since she starred in The Bill Engvall Show a few years back. Now apparently she’s waddled (heh) into the whole fat-shaming debate: In an upcoming ABC News special...
by Didact | Dec 19, 2013 | Uncategorized
Apparently intelligence officials in the Department of Defense (can someone please explain to me how a “Department of Defense” is supposed to win a war?) are absolutely crapping their pants in sheer terror at the amount of information that goddamn...
by Didact | Dec 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
Ever since Vox Day declared war on pink SF/F and started posting reviews by authors and readers of books in his “Lion’s Den” segments over on his blog, I’ve been keeping an eye out for books that seem to hold promise as examples of good...
by Didact | Dec 18, 2013 | Uncategorized
The Game Meets the Theory Stephanie’s recent missive on attraction (also presented here as a guest post) was interesting for a number of reasons, but from my perspective the best thing about it is its use of the branch of mathematics that we know of as game...
by Didact | Dec 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
Halfbreed’s one of the most interesting characters I’ve come across in my readings thus far. His blog is an oddball combination of travel stories, funny sex stories, and great game advice for quiet bookish guys. His latest post is very much in the latter...
by Didact | Dec 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
[Here is the second of a two-part set of guest posts by Stephanie Shepard. You can find the first here, and of course at Stephanie’s new blog. I recommend taking a trip over there and to her main blog, she doesn’t post frequently but she writes well and...
by Didact | Dec 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
[Following on from the launch of Stephanie’s new blog, I invited her to contribute a guest post as a way of getting the word out about her new venture. Now I don’t pretend to be an influential blogger- I leave that to better and more capable...
by Didact | Dec 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
Oh this just gets better by the day: The sign language “interpreter,” Thamsanqa Jantjie stunned millions of deaf people with his gibberish hand gestures at the Nelson Mandela memorial on Tuesday. But new developments about Jantjie’s violent past raise even more...
by Didact | Dec 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
At a loss as to what to get your special lady for the holiest of holy days? Well, worry no more- Gunny and our good friends at Glock are ready to help! (full credit to Vox for finding this one) Have a look at the others in the same series also. Anything that Gunny...
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