The English Flag by Rudyard Kipling
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...
Did NOT see that coming
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...
CrossFit: Not Even Once
Your local CrossFit box: where common sense, good form, and GAINS all go to die. I was out yesterday with some buddies from my martial arts school for a few beers, and the CrossFit Question came up....
Apology accepted, Captain Needa
How Lord Vader reacted when J. J. Abrams told him what a crybaby his grandson had turned into Apparently the latest blatant shameless useless naked Disney cash grab STAR WARS spin-off is...
And you thought Michael Bay was going to make it terrible…
Anybody grow up watching the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon in the late 80s and early 90s? Good times, man, good times... Fortunately, I grew out of that particular phase before I...
“So please remember us”
"Never the lotus closes, never the wild-fowl wake, But a soul goes out on the East Wind that died for England's sake -- Man or woman or suckling, mother or bride or maid -- Because on the bones of...
Bring them home
Every time I see yet another report showing yet another example of how President Obummer has managed to, yet again, screw up somewhere in the world and, yet once more, has to send in American...
Don’t cut your damn hair: current Victoria’s Secret Angel edition
Victoria's Secret models are, supposedly, among the most beautiful and desirable women in the world. One might be tempted to argue with those definitions with respect to specific cases from time to...
The 10 Ebonics Commandments
Classic. (I modified the First Commandment slightly. Just seemed appropriate.) I Be the LAWD yo' God. Don’ be dissin’ Me. Don’ be makin’ hood ornaments outta Me or nothin’ in Mah crib. Don’ be...
HALO became “safe”, that’s what
A fellow HALO maniac asks the question that is on the minds of a great many fans of the series these days: The full video raises a number of interesting points about what I consider, still, to be...
Hail to the Queen
Now THAT is how you make a grand entrance: America- PHUCK YEAH!!! Try watching that before you're setting up for your next bench press set, like I was today. I had to take a moment to gather...
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